General Asylum Medicine

DETENTION

Reporting detention-related harms

Evaluating Asylum Seekers in Detention from the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative Online Module

A Systematic Approach To Mitigate The Spread Of COVID-19 In Immigration Detention Facilities

Loud, Gray, and Arbitrary---The Compounding Trauma of Detention on Asylum Seekers

Women in Detention, by Synergy for Justice

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach at a Student-Run Clinic for Individuals Seeking Asylum

Domestic global health: A curriculum teaching medical students to evaluate refugee asylum seekers and torture survivors.

A toolkit for building medical programs for asylum seekers: Resources from the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program

A call to teach medical students clinical human rights.

Evaluating the Impact of Student-run Asylum Clinics in the US from 2016–2018

Challenges in Founding and Developing Medical School Student-Run Asylum Clinics

Lessons from Asylum Seekers: How Forensic Medical Evaluations Can Teach Us Things We Didn’t Learn in Medical School

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION/CUTTING

‘Let’s Talk About FGM/C’ resource for clinicians

Exploring Female Genital Cutting Among Survivors of Torture. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Long term health consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

UNICEF - Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Female Genital Mutilation: A Global Concern

Female genital mutilation/cutting: an update

WHO guidelines on the management of health complications from female genital mutilation

Invisible and Involuntary: Female Genital Mutilation as a Basis for Asylum

Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C)

Asylum Law and Female Genital Mutilation: Recent Developments

Asylum Granted Based on FGM and Domestic Violence

Asylum Cases Forge New Legal Standing

FGM: challenges for asylum applicants and officials

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting—Pediatric Physician Knowledge, Training, and General Practice Approach

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Long-term physical and psychological symptoms in Syrian men subjected to detention, conflict-related sexual violence and torture

Sexual and Gender Minority Refugees — Preparing Clinicians for the International Anti-LGBTQI+ Crisis

Sexual Orientation from the Gender Identity & Asylum, Asylum Medicine Training Initiative Online Module

Sexual & Gender-Based Violence from the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative Online Module

The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

Sexual orientation and gender identity assessment in LGBTI+ asylum seekers and refugees

LGBTQI Patterns of Injuries, by Synergy for Justice

GENERAL ASYLUM RELATED

Assisting asylum seekers in a time of global forced displacement: Five clinical cases.

Torture and its neurological sequelae

Asylum Seekers in a Time of Record Forced Global Displacement: the Role of Physicians

Impact of Trauma and Torture on Asylum Seekers

Asylum seekers, violence and health: A systematic review of research in high-income host countries

Torture and its sequel--a comparison between victims from six countries

Asylum grant rates following medical evaluations of maltreatment among political asylum applicants in the United States

Expert medico-legal reports: The relationship between levels of consistency and judicial outcomes in asylum seekers in the Netherlands

An analytical approach to clinical forensic evaluations of asylum seekers: the Healthright International Human Rights Clinic

Central American victims of gang violence as asylum seekers: the role of the forensic expert

Discrepancies in autobiographical memories—implications for the assessment of asylum seekers: repeated interviews study

Patterns and evidence of human rights violations among US asylum seekers

Impact of forensic medical evaluations on immigration relief grant rates and correlates of outcomes in the United States

Literature Review on the Impact of Trauma and Psychiatric Diagnoses on Memory and the Ability to Testify in Asylum Seekers

GENERAL CARE CONSIDERATIONS

Examination for the late physical after-effects of torture

Evaluating asylum seekers/torture survivors in urban primary care: a collaborative approach at the Bronx Human Rights Clinic

Caring and advocating for victims of torture

Barriers to Health Care Access among Refugee Asylum Seekers

MENTAL HEALTH

Associations between memory loss and trauma in US asylum seekers

Traumatic Brain Injury from the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative Online Module

AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Assessment

Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5)

Addressing the need for forensic psychological evaluations of asylum seekers: The potential role of the general practitioner

The mental health needs of asylum seekers and refugees – challenges and solutions

Stress & Trauma Toolkit for Treating Undocumented Immigrants in a Changing Political and Social Environment

Detained asylum seekers may be being re-traumatised

Forensic Mental Health Professionals in the Immigration Process

Assessing the efficacy and experience of in-person versus telephonic psychiatric evaluations for asylum seekers in the U.S

Literature Review on the Impact of Trauma and Psychiatric Diagnoses on Memory and the Ability to Testify in Asylum Seekers

PEDIATRICS

Pediatric Forensic Evaluations from the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative Online Module

Coping during the Asylum Process: A Guide for Youth. Available in English, Spanish, and Dari.

Impact of Trauma on Child Development Literature Review

Forensic Medical Evaluation of Children Seeking Asylum: A Guide for Pediatricians

Documenting torture and ill-treatment of children and adolescents: Current practices and challenges

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting—Pediatric Physician Knowledge, Training, and General Practice Approach

AAP Immigrant Toolkit

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

Assessing signs of torture: A review of clinical forensic dermatology

Context, evidence, and attitude: The case for photography in medical examinations of asylum seekers in the Netherlands

Confirming Torture : The Use of Imaging in Victims of Falanga

Dermatological findings after alleged torture

Treatment and management of wounds and scars of torture

PROVIDER EXPERIENCE

Vicarious Trauma & Resilience in Forensic Evaluators from the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative Online Module

Self-reported Vicarious Trauma in Asylum Evaluators: A Preliminary Survey

“Their Stories Have Changed My Life”: Clinicians’ Reflections on Their Experience with and Their Motivation to Conduct Asylum Evaluations

Supporting Asylum Seekers: Clinician Experiences of Documenting Human Rights Violations Through Forensic Psychological Evaluation

TORTURE AND PERSECUTION INJURIES

Reported Methods, Distributions, and Frequencies of Torture Globally

Whipping and Blunt Trauma, by Synergy for Justice

Sleep Deprivation, by Synergy for Justice

Electrical Injury and Torture, by Synergy for Justice

Gunshot Wounds, by Synergy for Justice

Self-Harm Medical Aspects, by Synergy for Justice

Cigarette Burns, by Synergy for Justice

Sexual Dysfunction Following Torture, by Synergy for Justice

Positional/Suspension/Stress-Position Torture, by Synergy for Justice