EthnoMed connects providers and patients who come from refugee, immigrant, and migrant backgrounds.
What We Do:
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Educate healthcare providers on clinical and cultural topics relevant to patient care.
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Provide patients with culturally and linguistically tailored health resources
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Conduct community engagement, education, and outreach throughout Seattle and King County
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Create opportunities for students and medical residents to work with diverse patient populations
Featured Resources
A comprehensive collection of in-language health resources for patients: Arabic, Amharic, Cambodian, Dari/Farsi, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, and Vietnamese. FREE access for all.
The Tuberculosis, TB Cultural Profile series on EthnoMed is a resource intended for medical providers who test, treat, or counsel patients about TB. These profiles aim to cover some of the main immigrant populations in the greater King County area in Washington state. However, they should be generally applicable to providers working in other areas of the United States.
8 language videos providing step-by-step instructions for caring for a burn wound using greasy gauze or Vaseline and gauze. Created by the Burns Unit at Harborview Medical Center, the premier burn and trauma hospital in the Pacific Northwest, the videos are designed to support patients and caregivers with safe, effective wound care at home.
To ensure that non-English-speaking community members receive accurate information about TB, we have created multilingual public service announcements (PSAs). These short videos provide essential details about TB screening, treatment, and prevention in multiple languages.
Eight multilingual video Measles Vaccine PSAs. These videos are designed to be shared with patients and families to increase awareness about measles and the importance of MMR vaccination
These videos in Cantonese, Somali and Vietnamese demonstrate how to properly use a FIT kit to collect a stool sample for colon cancer screening.
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