Subject: Family & Community Medicine
Course Number: 171.06
Course Title: Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health: The Clinician's Role
Units: 1
School: Medicine
Department: Medicine

Course Description: The course will empower students to both understand and act to alleviate the health challenges faced by displaced populations. The elective will host speakers who are leaders in asylum medicine, refugee and immigrant health. Students will learn to conduct forensic medical and psychiatric evaluations of asylum seekers. Students will have the opportunity to apply skills learned during the elective by participating in forensic evaluations in the UCSF Human Rights Collaborative.
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: None
Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture

Instructor of Record: T. Defries
Additional Instructor(s): R. Brusca
May the student choose the instructor for this course? No
Does enrollment in this course require instructor approval? No

Quarter(s) Offered: Fall
Course Grading Convention: P/NP (Pass/Not Pass) or S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Graduate Division course: No
Is this a web-based online course? No
Is this an Interprofessional Education (IPE) course? No
May students in the Graduate Division (i.e. pursuing Master or PhD) enroll in this course? No
Repeat course for credit? No