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Explore our collection of interactive exercises designed to develop multicultural competencies in healthcare professionals.

Finish the Story – Making Choices in a Culturally Diverse Healthcare Encounter
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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...

60–90 minutes Read more
Refugee Health Journey: Understanding Barriers and Building Culturally Sensitive Solutions
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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...

60-75 minutes Read more
Word Search Puzzle: Health, Refugees, and Migration
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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...

30–40 minutes Read more
Pandemic & Climate Change: Mapping Health Impacts on Vulnerable Communities
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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...

35 minutes Read more
Quiz: Climate Change and Pandemic
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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...

15-20 minutes Read more
Design Your Own Age-Friendly Ward
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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...

60–90 minutes Read more
Designing a Dementia Awareness Campaign – Aging of the Population
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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...

2 hours (2 × 60-minute sessions) Read more
Wisdom Across Cultures – How Proverbs Shape Our View of Aging
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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...

60–90 minutes Read more
Care for a Female Patient from the Romani Culture
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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...

70-75 minutes Read more
Care for a Female Patient Practising Islam
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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...

70-75 minutes Read more
Care for a Patient from the Hasidic Community – Medical Simulation
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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...

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Meeting with Socrates – Working on Prejudices in the Context of Cultural Diversity
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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...

approximately 90 minutes Read more