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Educating and activating health professionals to work toward health equity.
Physicians have a role in documenting and reporting human rights violations. Here are some resources to learn more:
Post-Detention Exam and Documentation: A guide on how to evaluate patients and document potential human rights violations that occurred during detention.
Post-Detention Note Template: A Rich Text File Template that an be copied into an Epic Smartphrase (or equivalent). Note that the current Yes/No SmartLists are specific to OCHIN Epic, but can be easily adapted for any version of Epic or other EMRS
Reporting Detention Related Harms: Background reading on reporting of detention related harms.
Asylum Medicine Training Initiative: A comprehensive, free training on how to perform forensic medical evaluations.
The Istanbul Protocol - This is the internationally recognized gold standard for investigating and documenting the physical and psychological effects of human rights violations.
Mission Educating and activating health professionals to work toward health equity Vision Health Professionals will use their voice, knowledge, and influence to eliminate the inequities that exist in health and healthcare, while working effectively with their patients, health systems, communities, and decision makers to address health equity wherever they live, work, learn, and play. |