Founder and Director of Shifting Pictures and\u00a0The Interpreter\u2019s Lab<\/strong>, Angela Sasso, has been recently published in the\u00a0Handbook of Research on Medical Interpretin<\/strong>g \u2013 a textbook for interpreting students. Angela\u2019s chapter, titled\u00a0In Through the Looking Glass: The Discord Between, Practice and Education<\/em>, looks at the evolution of the healthcare interpreter\u2019s role in Canada, and the necessary educational programs to prepare interpreters to work in complex settings. Here is the overview of her chapter: Traditional interpreter education programs were designed for conference interpreting markets. With the introduction of dialogue interpreting, some portion of the educational content was then allotted to public service interpreting and specialized settings became more prominent, programs then added courses to place more attention on specific contexts. In the last decade researchers began to view healthcare interpreting as a specialization of interpreting, and not just interpreting in a different setting. This chapter will review the evolution of the healthcare interpreter\u2019s role in the context of alignment between education and workplace reality in Canada. The results of this review demonstrate that the work expectations of healthcare interpreters do not align with delineations of the interpreter as a language conduit nor with current educational programs and recommends a more robust and situated pedagogical schema that includes ongoing and deliberate continuing education as an interim measure to mitigate tensions between student and practitioner, theory and practice.*<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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