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10/18/2022 - Medical Grand Rounds: Asylum Evaluations and the Impact of Physicians

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Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Abstract
Grand Rounds on Tuesday, October 18, features Maggie Whelan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Sheila Vélez Martínez, JD, the Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Asylum, Refugee, and Immigration Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Dr. Whelan, Co-Advisor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Human Rights Clinic, and Professor Vélez Martínez, Director of the Immigration Law Clinic, will be discussing the care of asylum seekers, from both medical and legal standpoints, while also offering insight into evaluating patients who seek asylum.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Discuss the scope of the refugee/immigrant crisis nationally and in Pittsburgh
  • Describe the asylum process
  • Improve/change outcomes for asylum seekers by becoming familiar with the role of physicians in the asylum process and ideally getting involved
  • Identify options for getting involved in providing forensic medical assessments – The Pitt SOM Human Rights Clinic

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading

  1. Atkinson HG, et al. "Impact of forensic medical evaluations on immigration relief grant rates and correlates of outcomes in the United States." Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 84 (2021) 102272.
  2. Ferrera MJ and Giri M. "What Should Count as Best Practices of Forensic Medical and Psychological Evaluations for Children Seeking Asylum?" AMA Journal of Ethics. April 2022, Volume 24, Number 4: E267-274.
  3. Zonana H. "Commentary: The Role of Forensic Psychiatry in the Asylum Process." J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 38:499–501, 2010.


Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This educational activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.


Authors:
Maggie Whelan, MD, PhD — Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Faculty Advisor, Human Rights Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Sheila Vélez Martínez, JD — Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Asylum Refugee and Immigration Law, Co-Director Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice,
Director Clinical Programs
Director Immigration Law Clinic, Faculty Director (PI) Human Rights Clinic University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.