Swiss BP Dolmetscher cheat sheet
Swiss BP Dolmetscher · Keep the key ideas within reach.
Support communication in Swiss health and social-service encounters
Identify participants, purpose, institution, and actual language needs.
Prepare terminology without inventing service rules.
Preserve questions, qualifications, and information for participation.
Keep interpreting distinct from clinical, case-management, and decision roles.
Apply the INTERPRET framework with transparent role boundaries
Preserve meaning and act transparently rather than taking over decisions.
Assess real conflicts, limitations, and assignment-specific competence.
Protect information and explain limits accurately.
Declare interventions and role changes and correct material errors.
Preserve evidence, uncertainty, and roles in high-stakes proceedings
Keep interpreting distinct from credibility decisions and legal representation.
Preserve uncertainty, corrections, and the speaker’s actual account.
Clarify language problems transparently to protect the record.
Use setting-specific preparation and appropriate support for distressing content.
Reconstruct meaning and manage the interpreting process
Track message function, relationships, register, and uncertainty.
Use notes and turn management to support accurate consecutive work.
Check terms, numbers, units, negation, and qualifications.
Test remote conditions and complement text study with actual performance practice.
Prepare the assignment and sustain accountable professional practice
Clarify scope, language needs, competence, conflicts, and preparation.
Arrange conditions and a transparent process for repair.
Use sustainable workload, confidential support, and reflection.
Keep accurate records and distinguish causes when reviewing performance.