Real estate, wills, prenups, different kinds of contracts. Some medical device translations may also not need in-depth medical knowledge, since here too some of the material is intended for patients or non-medical staff. These kinds of documents do not require a very high level of medical expertise. These documents are intended for patients who are lay people, sometimes even barely literate. Other kinds of medical texts may require a lower level of subject-matter expertise. We have access to such people at GTS and we use them for high-level medical texts.

Fortunately, there are such doctors and nurses who established a career in translation. A medical doctor will understand the source text and associated terminology, and will be able to translate the text so that other doctors and medical staff will understand it perfectly. Do you need a different translator for each branch of medicine? That would obviously be the best option, but may not be practical.įor very specialized kinds of medical texts, like physician evaluations and radiology reports, getting a translator who is a medical doctor or a qualified nurse can be necessary. Dentistry has also become a hot area, with many new startups in the field of implants and dental technology. Oncology, cardiology, radiology, orthopedics, psychiatry, the list is very long. Because as everyone knows, there are so many different branches of medicine. This is perhaps the trickiest of them all. Here, we will try and list the main ones and outline the types of expertise required in each. There are many different types of subject matter in the translation industry. That’s why using subject-matter translators is so important. A subject-matter expert will also have access to specialized dictionaries and linguistic resources. A subject matter-expert translator will turn the in job faster, at lower cost and with assured accuracy. Which means that the cost to the customer is higher. And even if a translator can research the terminology and get it done accurately, doing it each time for a new field is very time consuming.

If you are translating a gaming application for online poker, the players need to read the UI and understand everything perfectly.Įvery field has its own language. So if you are translating a legal contract, the terminology must be legalese. A good translation must read well to the people in that field.

Because translation is more than just trading words. One of the questions that we often get here at GTS: are the translators that you are using subject-matter experts? And that’s a great question.

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