KurMed-Triage: 2,000 Patient Cases for Medical Specialty and Urgency Classification

2,000 realistic patient cases across 10 medical specialties form this triage dataset. It is designed for Kurdish (Sorani) and Persian speakers, with cultural context from Iran, Iraq, and the Kurdistan region. The dataset was created by alanjafari and last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Classify patient cases into medical specialties based on described symptoms and stories.
• Detect clinical urgency levels from patient case narratives.
• Train or evaluate multilingual NLP models on Kurdish and Persian medical text.
• Study cultural and regional variations in symptom presentation and medical language.

Strengths

• Contains 2,000 patient cases, providing a substantial corpus for model training.
• Covers 10 medical specialties, offering diversity in clinical topics.
• Includes cultural context from three specific regions, adding geographic relevance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known but other scale metrics like file size and format are unknown.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-05-14).

Provenance

Source

huggingface user alanjafari

Collection Method

Likely manually created or curated from realistic clinical scenarios.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 07:58:04.

Geography

Cultural context from Iran, Iraq, and the Kurdistan region.