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French Health Medical Translation
We have French translators with experience and background in health and medical translations to complete medical translation requirements, from medical letters and receipts for insurance purposes, to complex medical reports or research papers.
As medical and pharmaceutical French translations is a specialised discipline, not all French translators are able to deliver translations for medical documents. Perth Translation provides medical French translations for documents such as:
- Pre-Clinical Reports
- CMC Documentation
- Clinical Trial Agreements
- Clinical Trial Results
- ICFs
- Investigation Brochures
- Interview Transcripts
- Packaging and Labeling
- Marketing Materials
- Medical Protocols
- Medical Research Papers
- Survey Results
Our NAATI certified translators are ready to assist. Additional effort in finding the right professional French translator goes a long way in ensuring reliable and consistent quality translations for medical and pharmaceutical documents. Enquire with us today with your project requirement.
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Professional French Translator
Perth Translation provides professional French translation services. You can use the form on this page to upload multiple files for a confirm quote and delivery time. Our French translator is ready to assist with your translation project.
About the French Language
The French language is a Romance language that was first spoken in France. French is also spoken in Belgium (Wallonia), Luxembourg, Quebec (Canada), Switzerland (Romandy) and many different countries in Africa (Francophone Africa).
About 220 million people speak French as a native or a second language. Like the other Romance languages, French nouns have genders that are divided into masculine (masculin) and feminine (féminin) words.
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About the French Language
The French language is a Romance language that was first spoken in France. French is also spoken in Belgium (Wallonia), Luxembourg, Quebec (Canada), Switzerland (Romandy) and many different countries in Africa (Francophone Africa).
During the 17th century, French replaced Latin as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations (lingua franca). It retained this role until approximately the middle of the 20th century, when it was replaced by English as the United States became the dominant global power following the Second World War. Stanley Meisler of the Los Angeles Times said that the fact that the Treaty of Versailles was written in English as well as French was the "first diplomatic blow" against the language.
During the Grand Siècle (17th century), France, under the rule of powerful leaders such as Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV, enjoyed a period of prosperity and prominence among European nations. Richelieu established the Académie française to protect the French language. By the early 1800s, Parisian French had become the primary language of the aristocracy in France.
Near the beginning of the 19th century, the French government began to pursue policies with the end goal of eradicating the many minority and regional languages (patois) spoken in France. This began in 1794 with Henri Grégoire's "Report on the necessity and means to annihilate the patois and to universalise the use of the French language". When public education was made compulsory, only French was taught and the use of any other (patois) language was punished. The goals of the Public School System were made especially clear to the French speaking teachers sent to teach students in regions such as Occitania and Brittany: "And remember, Gents: you were given your position in order to kill the Breton language" were instructions given from a French official to teachers in the French department of Finistère (western Brittany). The prefect of Basses-Pyrénées in the French Basque Country wrote in 1846: "Our schools in the Basque Country are particularly meant to substitute the Basque language with French...". Students were taught that their ancestral languages were inferior and they should be ashamed of them; this process was known in the Occitan-speaking region as Vergonha.
About 220 million people speak French as a native or a second language. Like the other Romance languages, French nouns have genders that are divided into masculine (masculin) and feminine (féminin) words.
French Document Translation
French official documents vary considerably in format and terminology across the Francophone world. Metropolitan France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada (Québec), and over 20 African nations each maintain distinct administrative conventions and legal vocabularies. A Québécois birth certificate differs fundamentally in structure from one issued in Senegal or France. Belgian French administrative terminology diverges from metropolitan French in areas like education and government structure, and Swiss French documents reflect that country's cantonal system.
French Document Types
French civil documents include the acte de naissance (birth certificate), acte de mariage (marriage certificate), and permis de conduire (driving licence). In France, civil records are maintained by the officier de l'état civil at the mairie (town hall). Québec uses certificat de naissance issued by the Directeur de l'état civil.
French is an official language in 29 countries across five continents and one of six official languages of the United Nations. It holds sole or co-official status in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Luxembourg, Monaco, and numerous African and Pacific Island nations. This extraordinary geographic spread means French document translation requires knowledge of highly diverse administrative systems, from the French état civil to the Québec Directeur de l'état civil to African civil registry structures established during colonial periods.
Industry Requirements
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registers health professionals across 16 regulated health professions. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) regulates medicines and devices, and state health departments — including the WA Department of Health — oversee hospital and health service delivery.
Common documents requiring translation include medical reports and discharge summaries, vaccination records, pharmaceutical product information and consumer medicine information (CMI), overseas health practitioner qualifications for AHPRA registration, clinical trial documentation, patient consent forms, and mental health assessments for visa and immigration purposes.
NAATI-certified translation is mandatory for overseas health qualifications submitted to AHPRA for practitioner registration. Medical reports used in immigration health assessments must also be NAATI-certified, and TGA requires certified translation of foreign-language regulatory submissions for therapeutic goods.
Perth's health sector is centred around five major hospital campuses — Royal Perth, Fiona Stanley, Sir Charles Gairdner, Joondalup, and Midland — alongside growing private hospital networks. The city attracts internationally trained health professionals whose qualification documents require NAATI-certified translation for AHPRA registration, and patient populations in culturally diverse areas like Mirrabooka and Cannington generate demand for translated medical communications.
