We are happy to have a contingency of health care providers who have joined our mission to provide professional intepreting services to all patients who need these services. We are hoping to get more members who can give us the provider perspective, and work collaboratively with us in better serving these patients.

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Provider Survey

Please consider providing us with your input using our PROVIDER SURVEY. We value your feedback, and would be grateful if you took the time to respond to our survey questions in an effort to better understand your needs and to provide us with invaluable insight that will be most useful to our work.

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Who are we?
Healthcare Providers who advocate working only with trained professional medical interpreters and represent the medical interpretation profession among our healthcare provider colleagues.
 
What is our mission?
- To create, develop and establish a strong alliance between healthcare providers and trained professional medical interpreters.
- Emphasize the importance of trained professional medical interpreters in the healthcare setting.
 
How do we do it?
- We as healthcare providers are clear about our expectations to trained professional medical interpreters.
- We understand their needs and they understand ours.
- We present our point of view and respect theirs.
- We work out mutually beneficial solutions.
- We combine their needs and our abilities, abiding by the "IMIA Standards of Practice".
 
What do we achieve?
- Mutual Respect.
- Comprehensive professional partnership.
- Healthy environment beneficial to the treatment and care of our patients.
- Positive recognition for our service.

If you have questions about this division please contact Anita Diabate at Provider Outreach Email

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2007 IMIA Provider Survey Results
http://www.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_Responses.aspx?sm=OuBmrHPVhbH6%2f9s40zKr5HHXXjo9m9xamY6tJF4Y5hE%3d

Transcultural Nursing Society
www.tcns.org

Communication Access across the Continuum of Healthcare
An Annotated Bibliography on Patient-Provider Communication
http://www.patientprovidercommunication.org/index.cfm/bibliography.htm

National Services Resource Guide for Health Care Providers
www.calendow.org/reference/publications/pdf/cultural/resourceguidefinal.pdf

by Alyssa Sampson, MLIS, Cross Cultural Health Care Program -This guide, developed with input from the coalition, gathers basic information about providing language services in one document. Information includes interpreter and translator associations and agencies, training programs, assessment tools, and other materials. This guide will aid health care providers, administrators, interpreters, translators, and others in improving language access and improving health care for their clients and patients.

Describing Physicians Language Fluency - Medical Spanish
http://www.imiaweb.org/uploads/pages/479_3.pdf
This article was published by JAMA and discusses provider fluency levels and how that relates to effective communication with patients.

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IMIA is currently looking for a Provider Division Chairperson
For more information please email info@imiaweb.org.

Serving in a chapter, committee or division leadership role provides enormous opportunities, both professionally and personally. IMIA Chairs frequently find themselves becoming more successful in their own careers as they develop additional skills, make useful business connections, and share ideas with other division members. The IMIA Administration provides support and mentoring for their success. Preference shall be given to candidates with previous involvement in the activities of the organization.


Provider Division Chairperson
VACANT

Vice Chairperson
VACANT

Chairperson Responsibilities:
- To represent the IMIA members in the division/committee
- To promote the profession and the IMIA organization to their division/committee members
- Act as a liaison between the IMIA committee/division members with the IMIA Board of Directors
- Moderate periodic conference calls with members of their division/committee (could be monthly, bimonthly or quarterly)
- To attend periodic IMIA Chairpersons meetings via conference call
- To moderate our yearly Division/Committee face-to-face meeting at IMIA conference or designate an adequate moderator
- To agree to a term of three years concurrent with Board elections
- Update the specific division/committee webpage on IMIA website with information relevant to the initiatives of that division/committee interests
- Other initiatives as deemed necessary for the specific needs of each committee/division
- Chairpersons receive mentoring, assistance, and support to accomplish their goals, by counting on a Chairperson Liaison and also by the Executive Director and the Administrator of the IMIA

To Apply for an IMIA Chairperson Position, See the Requirements (same as for IMIA Representation):
http://www.imiaweb.org/uploads/docs/Requirements_for_IMIA_Representation.pdf
 
Vice Chairperson Responsibilities:
- To assist and work closely with  the Chairperson in all their responsibilities as requested
- To assume the duties of the Chairperson when the chairperson is not present or available
- To apply for the chairperson position when the chairperson ends their term
 
To Apply for an IMIA Chairperson Position, See the Requirements of the Chairperson. All is the same except that only one letter of recommendation is needed, not two.
 
If you have any questions about applying please email info@imiaweb.org
 
Further information about the work of the committee or division, please email the appropriate chairperson.