When Home is the Mouth of a Shark: Refugee and immigrant children in Marion County

Ellen Einterz, MD, MPH&TM

Global Health Clinic

Marion County Public Health Department

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• differentiate migrant, immigrant, refugee and asylee, and summarize the process of refugee resettlement;

• effectively and comfortably manage a cross-cultural patient visit aided by an interpreter;

• evaluate the significance of some common culture-related findings on physical examination of refugee and other immigrant children.