This has implications for everything from forensic risk assessments, discrimination proceedings and
the evaluation of asylum seekers.
Not exact matches
The Penn Human Rights Clinic, a medical student - run clinic dedicated to providing psychiatric and physical
evaluations of survivors
of persecution seeking
asylum in the United States, provides such training.
In the United States, official
asylum evaluations comprise an oral history, physical exam, and review
of records.
«Physicians are uniquely able to help victims
of torture and trauma secure
asylum status by providing a comprehensive
evaluation,» write Lipoff and co-authors Jenna M. Peart, MD,
of Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver and Elisabeth H. Tracey, fourth - year medical student at the Perelman School
of Medicine.
«Professor urges physicians to help victims
of torture seeking
asylum: Documenting history
of trauma through medical
evaluations can double granting
of asylum status.»