The purpose of this group is to engage in discussions and share opportunities and materials that are of interest to Portuguese medical interpreters.
IMIA Portuguese Division listserv
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Medicos Estrangeiros Visitam Centros de Saude
http://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/gerais/2013/08/31/interna_gerais,442510/medicos-estrangeiros-visitam-centros-de-saude-e-consideram-idioma-maior-dificuldade.shtml
Médica cubana, morte de paciente:
http://brazilleaks.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/medica-cubana-vira-alvo-de-protesto-apos-morte-de-jovem-no-sul-do-piaui/
Reforma ortográfica game: Practice spelling under the new rules with this fun game:
http://fmu.br/game/home.asp
Portuguese Blog
http://publichealth.blog.state.ma.us/momento-de-sa%C3%BAde/
The Role of Interpreters, or Linguas, in the Portuguese Empire During the 16th Century
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue2/pdf/couto.pdf
Portuguese dictionary online Caldas Aulete - This is an excellent monolingual dictionary and it's free.
http://www.auletedigital.com.br/
Faturando com as Letras - VEJA
http://vocesa.abril.com.br/desenvolva-sua-carreira/materia/faturando-letras-609842.shtml
Portuguese Division Chair
Eliana Lobo is the Supervisor of Interpreter Services at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She is a trainer of medical interpreters and a trainer for VRI (video remote interpreting). Harborview employs 50 interpreters who interpret in 24 languages: in person, via telephone and via video remote interpretation, facilitating over 127,000 interpreted encounters last year.
Eliana is a native speaker of both English and Portuguese. She was born and raised in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S., and has lived and worked in the U.S. and Brazil as an adult. Eliana has over 20 years of experience as a trilingual interpreter/translator. She is an experienced court and medical interpreter. She received a Fulbright Grant to conduct research in Brazil and the U.S. She has also taught ESL in Brazil and the U.S.
To send correspondence to Eliana Lobo and the IMIA Portuguese Division, please email:
IMIAPortugueseDivision@imiaweb.org
Vice Chairperson
Camila Sgrignoli Januario is a active interpreter in the legal and the medical field. She was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil and was trained as a Nursing Assistant back in her homeland. She studied Social Sciences at Fundação Santo André and Public Relations at the Universidade Metodista de São Paulo and moved to the United States in 2000 to study English as a Second Language at University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she graduated at an advanced level. She started translating in 2002 while raising her young boys and in 2006 started interpreting for a small agency in the Washington, DC area. Since then she has interpreted in a wide range of industries and locations including the National Institute of Health, Nuclear Energy Institute, The Kennedy Center for the Perorming Arts, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Organization of American States (OAS), The World Bank, Foreign Visitor Program (OEFV), Office of Global Enforcement (OE) and the U.S. State Department. She became an eligible Maryland Court Interpreter in 2009 and is a Portuguese interpreter for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She lives in Timonium, Maryland with her husband and their two sons.
Additional Documents
>Dictionary
>Cabo Verde Reference Page Creole / kriolu
>Portuguese / English Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms
>Proverbs Frequently Used in Brazil
>Portuguese German Medical Dictionary Recommendation
>IMIA Standards of Practice 6.24.2010, Portuguese
