{"id":35943,"date":"2026-03-03T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=35943"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:25:18","slug":"spokesman-review-student-initiative-to-address-medical-interpreter-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/03\/spokesman-review-student-initiative-to-address-medical-interpreter-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Spokesman-Review Highlights Student Initiative to Address Medical Interpreter Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students and faculty at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine are working to ensure that all patients can access care with an interpreter, should they need one, reducing language barriers in health care settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Spokesman-Review<\/em> highlighted a collaborative initiative led by medical students Carmella Crooks and Victoria Caldera that aims to increase the number of certified medical interpreters in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\">Learn more about how their own experiences translating in health care settings motivated the project, and how they hope it makes an impact.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\" >\n\t<a \t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/feb\/24\/wsu-students-lead-initiative-to-address-shortage-o\/?utm_email=1b840e2b73&#038;utm_source=The+Spokesman-Review+Newsletters&#038;utm_campaign=8c75008b65-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_05_24_08_40_COPY_01&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_38e7a8f269-8c75008b65-362069619\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--size-small\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tRead the Article\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and faculty at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine are working to ensure that all patients can access care with an interpreter, should they need one, reducing language barriers in health care settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25158,"featured_media":35957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,75],"tags":[32,35,53,73],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35945,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions\/35945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35943"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=35943"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=35943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}