The Spoken Corpus of Foreign and Immigrant Patient Narratives for Nursing and Medical Education

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Narrative-based approaches have been used in health education to foster empathy, professionalism, and inquiry skills, and more recently to support the development of intercultural competence in English language education. Databases of patient narratives exist in both English and Japanese, but the voices of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients remain absent. This omission is particularly significant in Japan, where nurses play a central role in patient care, yet international nursing courses often give limited attention to caring for CALD patients. This report describes the development of an open-source online corpus of patient narratives from foreign residents who experienced healthcare in Japan, created for use with nursing and medical students. The 36 narratives encompass a range of language backgrounds and medical topics, with most participants female and from non-English-speaking countries.