7 Tips: How to Train Your Medical Language Skills

This session explored practical strategies to help medical translators, interpreters, and medical writers strengthen their medical language and terminology skills.Together with Andrea T. Egeresi, Mariana Teixeira, Jennifer Richmond, Elena Zanatta, Eva BM Nyblom, Ani Barseghyan, Ziaulhaq Noori, Kathrin Kunze, and Doris R., we discussed effective ways to build medical vocabulary, including working with prefixes, suffixes, and root words, using flashcards, and adapting learning techniques to different learning styles.We also highlighted valuable resources like MedlinePlus and UpToDate to improve medical reading comprehension, along with practical insights into CAT tools such as Smartcat, MemoQ, Phrase, and Trados Studio, and the responsible use of AI in medical translation and writing.A powerful reminder that developing strong medical language expertise requires continuous learning, practice, and engagement with real medical content.