Yale Center for Asylum Medicine Presents: "Medical Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers: The Role of the Clinician in Documenting Human Rights Abuses"

Conflict and human rights abuses worldwide have caused record numbers of displaced persons in recent years. Many of these individuals have experienced persecution and torture and have persistent scars from these human rights abuses. They seek asylum in the United States as they try to build a safer life. Physicians and other health professionals can collaborate with their legal colleagues to provide powerful evidence of this ill-treatment in immigration court.

Yale Center for Asylum Medicine will present a conference that outlines the unique and important contribution clinicians can make for this vulnerable population. The historical and legal background of human rights and asylum law will be reviewed, and clinicians and clinicians-in-training will learn about the skills necessary to perform physical and psychological evaluations. Legal professionals will understand the evaluations their clients undergo when a forensic evaluation is performed.

The training is free of charge and open to all students, physicians, clinical psychologists, NPs, LCSWs, and legal professionals. To register, please submit your answers to the following questions by September 20, 2019.

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