PHR’s Asylum Program offers basic and advanced trainings for health professionals to learn how to apply their clinical skills to support asylum applications. These all-day trainings are held a minimum of two times each year and often offer continuing education credits for physicians, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers. We require all new network members to attend a training prior to taking on their first case, unless they have relevant forensic experience
Upcoming In-Person Trainings
November 9, 2024 | Asylum Medicine Training | Portland, ME
Hosted by Tufts Human Rights and Asylum Medicine Training Clinic. Free training and certification to perform forensic medical or psychiatric evaluations to support asylum applications. Open to all physicians, residents, medical students, and other health care providers. More information here.
Self-Paced Virtual Trainings
Asylum Medicine Training Introductory Curriculum: A comprehensive online course created by a national collaboration of over 80 experts from 40 institutions and featuring peer-reviewed best practices in asylum medicine. Register here.
Training Highlights:
- Human rights law, asylum law, and the critical role of the health professional and forensic documentation in immigration cases
- Physical and psychological evidence of torture and other human rights abuses
- Effective medical-legal documentation, including affidavit writing
- Best practices for collaboration between health professionals and attorneys
- Meeting and networking with other human rights-minded health professionals
