App to facilitate patient-doctor communication
The whole of Switzerland
Year-round
Entrepreneurship
Access to healthcare is a basic human right and should not be hindered by language barriers. Our core project is a web-based, visual communication aid to help bridge language barriers in patient-doctor communication. To this end, PICTOMED equips healthcare staff with a large number of images illustrating symptoms. For our project to be successful, we need to make the medical profession aware of the challenges and encourage them to use our application. That’s why we engage in public relations, educational and research work in the field of intercultural interpreting in the healthcare sector. Another approach is empowering people with a migration background. This involves familiarizing our target group with how our communication app works.
Duration:
- Flexible, whereby a commitment of at least 6 months is desirable.
- Duration: approx. 4 hours per week.
Location:
Flexibly in Swiss cities or virtually via video conference.
How it will work:
Individually depending on the scope of duties and previous knowledge.
Introduction:
Individually depending on the scope of duties and previous knowledge.
Support:
- Taking on administrative tasks depending on previous experience.
- Self-reliance desirable, but contact person available for questions, concerns, etc.
Tasks:
- Assistance in the development of marketing strategies or organization of campaigns, events, meetings.
- Reminders, deadlines, distribution of tasks, structuring of the membership system.
- Processing of various inquiries by email.
- Recruitment: Initial contact, membership agreement, correspondence, drafting templates.
- Marketing at various institutions in the health and asylum sector in Switzerland: Making contact, arranging appointments, project presentation, correspondence. Planning of events and campaigns (e.g., VisionVoluntour) internally and externally.
What you'll need:
- Basic PC and IT skills.
- Good oral and written communication skills in German and English, other languages are an advantage.
- Team spirit.
- Organizational talent.
- Enthusiasm and persuasiveness.
- Conflict management.
- Willingness to occasionally work on weekends or evenings for the project.
Project language
German, English
PICTOMED is a humanitarian association that equips healthcare personnel with a large number of images illustrating symptoms, which can be queried in a user-friendly, language-independent and interactive way via a website app. We’re also engaged in public relations, educational and research work in the field of intercultural interpreting in the healthcare sector.