Philadelphia is now a new oral testing site!
New locations for the oral exam testing are being added continuously. Please read on to see the complete list of cities. Interpreters for the Spanish language who have already passed the written portion of the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters’ test may continue to register and schedule the Spanish oral exam. (If you have passed the written exam and interpret for a language other than Spanish, you will be put in a database and informed when the oral exam in your language is available.)
Candidates for the oral exam for interpreters for the Spanish language will be pre-registered with Iso-Quality Testing (IQT) and will receive an email from them with specific instructions. Candidates will then be able to go on the IQT web site, www.iqttesting.com and register, pay and schedule their exam electronically.
A select number of locations and dates have been set aside for candidates to schedule their tests. When a candidate selects a testing site, the available dates and times will be displayed. If no date appears, call IQT at the number provided on the instructions.
Locations for the IQT testing sites:
Atlanta, Georgia
Boca Raton, Florida
Charlotte, North Carolina
Chillicothe, Ohio (near Columbus)
Clearwater, Florida (Tampa Bay)
Denver, Colorado
Houston, Texas
Irvine, California (near Los Angeles)
Lexington, Kentucky
Lubbock, Texas
Malta, Illinois (near Chicago)
Memphis, Tennessee
New York City, New York
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Springfield, Massachusetts
White City, Oregon
Wyoming, Minnesota (near the Twin Cities)
National Board Sites:
For these sites below contact staff [at] certifiedmedicalinterpreters [dot] org
Millbrae, California (near San Francisco)
New Haven, Connecticut
Pasco, Washington
Richmond, Virginia
Salem, Oregon
Tempe, Arizona
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Woonsocket, Rhode Island (near Providence)
Send your interest to test at one of these eight sites above with your name and contact information to staff [at] certifiedmedicalinterpreters [dot] org
As additional testing sites become available in the future, they will be added here on the web site. Do not worry about the previous timeline, the time limit to take the oral exam after passing the written will be extended.
These sites are for the oral exam. The written exam continues to be available in hundreds of cities around the country. For a complete list click here.
Any questions about your oral exam should be directed to the National Board at the above email address, not the testing administration company IQT.
The oral exam will soon be offered in five additional languages – Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Korean – developed in accordance with the same strict standards and scientific process used to design the Spanish certification test. Interpreters are piloting these exams now and they will be available later this year.
