Exercise Catalogue
Explore our collection of interactive exercises designed to develop multicultural competencies in healthcare professionals.
#13
Finish the Story – Making Choices in a Culturally Diverse Healthcare Encounter
Students read a branching clinical story about Mr. Karim, a 67-year-old refugee patient, and navigate key decision points about communication, interpr...
#14
Refugee Health Journey: Understanding Barriers and Building Culturally Sensitive Solutions
A role-based case study exercise in which students analyse a Syrian refugee family navigating healthcare barriers — language, affordability, stigma, a...
#15
Word Search Puzzle: Health, Refugees, and Migration
A vocabulary-building exercise introducing key terms related to refugee health, migration, and transcultural communities. Students find hidden terms i...
#16
Pandemic & Climate Change: Mapping Health Impacts on Vulnerable Communities
A group-based impact-mapping exercise in which students analyse how the simultaneous occurrence of a pandemic and a climate crisis compounds health ri...
#17
Quiz: Climate Change and Pandemic
A short quiz on the impact of climate change and the pandemic on global health. Six mixed multiple-choice and true/false questions explore mental heal...
#18
Design Your Own Age-Friendly Ward
Students review photographs of hospital wards and analyze which environmental features support or hinder age-friendly, safe, and dignified care for ol...
#19
Designing a Dementia Awareness Campaign – Aging of the Population
In groups of 4–6, students act as public health teams and design a culturally sensitive dementia awareness campaign that reduces stigma and promotes u...
#20
Wisdom Across Cultures – How Proverbs Shape Our View of Aging
A small-group reflective exercise in which students analyse proverbs about aging from different cultures, identify the worldviews they express, and ex...
#21
Care for a Female Patient from the Romani Culture
A medical simulation in which students care for Esmeralda Mirga, a 30-year-old Romani patient hospitalised following a traffic accident.Working in rol...
#22
Care for a Female Patient Practising Islam
A medical simulation in which students care for Aisha Al-Karim, a 32-year-old Syrian Muslim patient presenting to the Emergency Department with acute...
#23
Care for a Patient from the Hasidic Community – Medical Simulation
A four-stage medical simulation exercise in which students explore cultural and religious dimensions of caring for a Hasidic patient. Before the simul...
#24
Meeting with Socrates – Working on Prejudices in the Context of Cultural Diversity
A reflective self-analysis exercise in which students individually map their own cultural biases and prejudices across three categories, then collabor...