Challenges for Students in the Creation, Growth, and Management of an Academic, Student-run Asylum Clinic.

Medical school asylum clinics are complex organizations that blend medical and legal expertise with service to assist individuals seeking refuge from human rights violations. The balance of power shared by the students and faculty who lead these clinics varies widely across institutions, usually in an inverse reciprocal relationship. The Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights will observe its 10th anniversary in 2020 and is notable for espousing maximal student autonomy in the organization's governance with minimal faculty control or administration participation.

Beyond Diagnosis: Adding a Psychodynamic Dimension to the Mental Health Asylum Evaluation.

Medical-legal asylum evaluations, conducted by experienced clinicians, are one of the most important parts of an application for successfully being granted asylum. Over two-thirds of these are mental health evaluations. Customarily these evaluations are summarized and drafted as diagnostic statements, providing the attorney with clear, corroborative testimony demonstrating that the patient suffers from psychological sequalae directly related to the individual's previous experience of persecution in their home country.

Medical Students' Attitudes toward Torture, Revisited.

This paper reports the findings of a survey of medical students' attitudes toward torture and discusses variables that may correlate with those attitudes. In late 2016, 483 enrolled medical and MD-PhD students at the Weill Cornell Medical College received an anonymous, institutional review board-approved survey that included questions about torture and its effectiveness, demographic questions, inquiries about personal experiences of harassment or discrimination, and questions regarding engagement in human rights activities. Some questions were drawn from a 2008 University of Illinois survey of medical students' attitudes toward torture, the only prior such survey at a US medical university.

Do psychopharmacologists speak to psychotherapists? A survey of practicing clinicians.

Background: Split-treatment, the provision of psychotherapy and psychotropic medication by two different professionals, has become prevalent in U.S. mental health care delivery, as more Americans receive prescriptions and American psychiatrists provide less psychotherapy.