Tips for examining asylum seekers, affidavit documention, and other legal resources:
Asylum Medicine Training Initiative
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 a free online course featuring peer-reviewed best practices in asylum medicine.
Immigrant Support
- Immigrant Resources in SF Response and Referral Toolkit - SF Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs
- Find Immigration Legal Help - SF County
- Asylum Initial Intake - The LGBT Asylum Project
Forensic Medical Briefs
Credit: Synergy for Justice
- Women in Detention
- Solitary Confinement Issue
- Self-Harm Psych
- Whipping and Blunt Trauma
- Sleep Deprivation
- Electrical Injury and Torture
- Gunshot Wounds
- Self-Harm Medical Aspects
- Cigarette Burns
- Sexual Dysfunction Following Torture
- Potential Torture
- LGBTQI Patterns of Injuries
Legal Briefs
Credit: Synergy for Justice
- Legal: Writing the Conclusion
- Legal: Preparing to Testify in Court
- Legal: Expert Wittness Role
- Preparing for Medical Evaluation
- Legal: Post-Evaluation Checklist
- Legal: Tips for Testifying in Court
- Legal: Photography as Evidence
- Legal: Trauma Informed Interviews
- Legal: Best Practices for Defensible Forensic Interviews
- Legal: Making Expert Qualifications
- Legal: Collecting and Preserving Evidence
- Legal: Informed Consent
- Legal: Building Rapport with Patients
- Legal: Concluding the Patient Interview
- Legal: Documentating the Patients Narrative in Expert Forensic Reports
Literature
- VECINA and the VIISTA Program at Villanova University have organized information regarding the conditions for asylum for individuals from the following countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.
- Literature Review & Bibliography on the Impact of Trauma and Psychiatric Diagnoses on Memory and the Ability to Testify in Asylum Seekers by Los Angeles Human Rights Initiative
- How the Asylum Backlog Affects Torture Survivors and What the Biden Administration Can Do to Fix It By Hawthorne Smith, Ph.D.
- Examining Asylum Seekers Manual
- Istanbul Protocol
- Medical Physical Examination of Alleged Torture Victims
- Common Types of Persecution That Leave Psychological Sequelae
- Photographic Documentation, a Practical Guide for Nonprofessional Forensic Photography
- Asylum Grant Rate Following Medical Evaluations of Maltreatment among Political Asylum Applicants in the United States
- Online Resources for Working with Refugees,Victims of Torture, & Asylum-Seekers
- 3 Cognitive Strategies That Deny, Discount, & Dismiss Torture
- Psychological Assessment of Torture Survivors
- Tele-psychological Services Checklist
