UCSF is co-leader of The Asylum Medicine Training Initiative that was founded in 2021 to train healthcare professionals to meet the need for forensic medical evaluations of people seeking asylum in the U.S. We are proud to announce our online course created by a national collaboration of over 80 experts from 40 institutions.
AMTI provides an online course featuring peer-reviewed best practices in asylum medicine.
The course is free for health, human rights and legal professionals interested in learning to conduct forensic evaluations for asylum seekers. This training is based on updated international standards in the Istanbul Protocol 2022, emphasizes trauma-informed care, and is suitable for healthcare providers at all levels of training.
After completing the first five mandatory modules of this course, participants will be qualified to conduct forensic medical evaluations with prominent asylum medicine organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights. These modules are currently used as part of the curriculum for HHRI's elective for UCSF Medical Students.
Visit asylummedtraining.org to register and learn more!
Modules include over 10 hours of interactive content and cover the following topics:
- Historical-Legal Background
- The Trauma-Informed Interview
- Forensic Mental Health Evaluation
- Forensic Physical Evaluation
- Affidavit Writing & Testifying
- Pediatric Forensic Medical Evaluations
- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum
- Evaluating Asylum Seekers in Detention
- Vicarious Trauma and Vicarious Resilience in Forensic Evaluators
We hope this online training is helpful to many of you and that you will share it widely.
For continuing education through upcoming trainings, keep yourself up to date on current topics through our Global Health and Human Rights Webinar Series.
Questions? Contact the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative at [email protected].
