MedicalMissions.com Podcast

Many blessing of career surgical missionary service may not be realized and therefore never enjoyed. Besides meeting unmet surgical and spiritual needs you are overwhelmed with God's provision, protection, direction, and His doing of the impossible.

One fifth of the world have no access to health care. Community based models hold keys to success. Primary Health Care is a WHO priority. Faith Based Organisations are invited to participate. By working together and demonstrating excellence we can bring change, health and hope in the name of Christ.

Historically, the practice of medicine in the mission setting has been stereotyped as involving a single doctor involved in direct patient care from dawn until dusk, caring for a myriad of different conditions. Little attention was given, in many situations, to the academic pursuits of teaching and research. This workshop will strive, in an interactive fashion, to discuss the merits of adjusting o...

Short-term medical missions often destroy community confidence in the local health system. Working through true case presentations we demonstrate how medical mission teams can cause harm in communities. These case presentations also show how the local medical community can be negatively impacted by mission teams. We then work through medical mission strategies that aid and support local health pro...

This workshop includes a number of case presentations, which were events reported to us from multiple sources over our years of medical missions service. It is also our desire to review some of the problems caused by mission teams so we can mitigate the potential harm teams can do while working in communities. The idea of potential harm resulting from medical missions may be difficult for some to...

This workshop will discuss the relationship between ethics and faith and how conversion leads to only slowly to the development of ethical behaviour consistent with the new faith. It will also discuss the rising recognition amongst non-christian intellectuals that attention must be paid to ethical regeneration in the west.

This workshop will discuss the differences between provision of community health and coping with individual diseases via cure, relief or palliation. The ethics of the two systems are quite different and raise pointed problems about the proper use of limited resources.

The volume of aid resources doesn matter as much as the implementation philosophy that the aid is being channeled into. The old adage that ideas have consequences is quite true untested and shallow ideas often have negative consequences on those that are being served. This session will explore the difference between a dependency philosophy and an empowering strategy, and these ideas will be shared...

A session to familiarize the missionary physician with the Millennium Development Goals and their implications for life issues internationally.

How to integrate community health into curative health programs. Hospital programs often have little community orientation. Communigty health efforts may create tension with curative programs. This talk will discuss how curative care and community health complement each other and how to integrate them effectively together

This session will explore how to prepare to minister to the vast spiritual and emotional needs of disaster victims. Often medical missionaries are among the first responders to traumatic events. Information from scripture, crisis intervention research, and the medical arena will be offered to equip individuals and teams to better work in those conditions.

Wholistic health has been understood in many different ways, most of the time focused on different aspects of the individual with little attention to the sociopolitical and cultural factors. Individual health status and life styles are clearly determined by multiple factors and historical contexts in which individuals are immersed. This workshop looks at a 20-year case study in Latin America devel...

This presentation will review the various suppliers available for short term mission pharmacy. Their processes, lead times, product availability and cost considerations will be presented.

Short term trips are no longer just handing out pills but now involve teaching of national health workers at various levels of training and in various locations. This session will deal with how we can improve our teaching of local health care professionals.

Finding appropriate medical resources for your mission project is a challenge. This session will explain how to evaluate medical projects, determine what specific equipment is needed, and how to find the resources to meet those needs.

A basic overview of the human trafficking situation and the health consequences of human trafficking will be provided. Many opportunities already exist for health professionals to become involved against trafficking. For those at this conference looking to be involved on the front lines of injustice around the world, organizations and health professionals will assess the efforts already being made...

A Biblical view of maney and material things will help you to borrow less and manage your student loans so that your missions service is not delayed