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Contact us at crossingborders@medsin.org Click here to visit our page on the Medsin website Join our Facebook group for frequent updates Our Mission Crossing Borders is a network of healthcare students whose mission is to remove barriers to healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers. By educating future healthcare professionals , campaigning for policy change and running voluntaryprojects we hope to realise our belief that refugees and asylum seekers should receive the highest standard of healthcare irrespective of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or immigration status. To avoid overlapping with other organizations and best use our skills, we try to focus specifically on healthcare problems of refugees and asylum seekers and problems to do with clinicians' retraining. The main areas everyone wants to work in seem to be through Campaigns, voluntary Projects or getting refigee issues into med school Education. We want to support local branches, help everyone to share resources and advice, and provide direction where necessary. As well as through the wiki http://nationalcrossingborders.pbwiki.com/ (see more below) and newsletters, we will be organising meetings at Medsin conferences, and we’ll be available to visit your branch for “as needed” assistance. We exist to help local branches, so please suggests ideas of how we can help more!  PROJECTS We have a variety of voluntary projects across the country; from helping refugee doctors retrain to practice in the UK to running introductory sessions on the NHS for refugee groups EDUCATION We work to get refugee and asylum seeker health issues into medical school curricula acress the country. If you want your medical school to teach more about these issues then get in touch. We have resources and advice that can help you. please contact Jennifer Devereux at jx649@bham.ac.uk or Crossing Borders at crossingborders@medsin.org to request a copyof the Refugee SSM/SSC Starter Pack, which is full of relevant, useful and recently updated material designed to help students set up a refugee based SSM/SSC at their universities. Alternatively, some of the files can be downloaded below. Myth Busters ASRH Useful Websites Access to Healthcare Flowchart Asylum Seekers and the Media Asylum Seekers BMA Asylum Seekers and Their Health Myth Leaflet Personal Records of Asylum Seekers and Refugees Press Myths Refugee conference Council Report Refugee Health References Asylum Seeker Statistics Sources: http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/refugees/pressmyths.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,946964,00.html
http://www.humanrightswatch.org/refugees
www.oxfam.org.uk
For further information:
www.asylumaid.org.uk
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
www.refugee-action.org
www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
www.asylumscotland.org.uk |
