Our focus
With a highly specialized healthcare system in Denmark, many ethnic minorities struggle to understand and navigate it. The Immigrant Medicine Clinic was established to alleviate, prevent, and document the health consequences of unequal access to healthcare caused by language barriers, trauma, misunderstandings, and differing perceptions of illness.
The Immigrant Medicine Clinic is therefore an interdisciplinary outpatient clinic for ethnic minority patients with complex compliance issues, unexplained symptoms, and patients in need of coordination of hospital care.
The clinic was the first of its kind and focuses on competency development and the generalization of experiences. The clinic's research is primarily centered around case series and qualitative studies.
So far, the clinic has published two textbooks on vulnerability and clinical intercultural competencies, the latter of which has been translated into English and released as an audiobook. The clinic has also contributed chapters to a wide range of professional books (e.g., health psychology, patientology, culture for healthcare professionals, sexology, narrative medicine, patient safety, and prevention).
In addition, the clinic's staff continuously oversees the competency development of intercultural clinics across the country.
Our primary research and development themes are based on the health of ethnic minorities and global health.