The Development and Implementation of Preventive Medicine Resident Rotations in a Shelter Serving Asylum-Seekers at the US-Mexico Border.

Asylum-seekers present to the US-Mexico border with a variety of acute health needs. In December 2018, the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency partnered with the University of California, San Diego to provide health screenings to asylum-seekers at a humanitarian shelter administered by Jewish Family Services. The assessments screened for communicable diseases and acute conditions.