If you speak Spanish and care about equitable access to medical care, come join us at Open Door Clinic! We need your help as a volunteer medical interpreter. In fact, tiny but mighty ODC can only deliver care with the help of over 125 volunteer medical interpreters, medical providers, and office volunteers. Together, we served over 1,300 distinct un- and under-insured patients in 2024.
Spanish-speaking patients make up over 50% of our clinic appointments, so we depend on bilingual or highly fluent speakers of English and Spanish as volunteer medical interpreters. Interpreters facilitate the delivery of care and obtain first-hand experience with public health while shadowing a wide variety of healthcare professionals, both at Tuesday evening clinics held near the Middlebury campus, and dozens of weekday medical appointments in and around Middlebury each month.
Role Description
Volunteer medical interpreters facilitate communication between patients whose primary language is Spanish, medical providers and clinic staff. The volunteer interpreter’s primary role is that of conduit, accurately and completely interpreting everything that is said by both providers/clinic staff and patients throughout a patient’s medical visit. Every interpreter is required to attend a daylong training, preferably in person, but possibly online, before they start volunteering.
- See a full role description here.
- Learn more and download our volunteer application here.
- You can complete the application even before you complete the required interpreter training.
- Our next in-person training will be on Saturday, October 25, 2025 on the Middlebury campus.
- Questions? Contact Susannah McCandless, ODC Volunteer Coordinator, at smccandless@opendoormidd.org or 802.388.0137.
