Learning objectives of the course
After completing this learning course, you should have:
- Knowledge about the initial health assessment as well as flight specific health needs, red flags, infectious diseases and vaccination (Module 2)
- Knowledge about your legal situation, the legal situation of the asylum seeker regarding primary health care as well as knowledge about the video-interpreter project (Module 3)
- Overview about skills and tools for patient-provider interaction in this specific setting: communication aspects, idioms of distress, cultural aspects of diseases, death and dying (Module 4)
- Knowledge about mental health aspects in refugee care including psychological issues for the refugee as well as skills for dealing with traumatized individuals and for avoiding burn-out yourself (Module 5)
- Knowledge about special concerns regarding refugees and children’s health, and sexual as well as reproductive health (Module 6 and 7)
- Overview about strategies to support patients with chronic diseases and to support the health literacy of your patients that are asylum seekers (Module 8)