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MedicalMissions.com Podcast
Resources for students, residents, and healthcare professionals who want to learn more about healthcare missions. Includes sessions from the Global Missions Health Conference.
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Five Principles for having a sustainable, long-term impact on a short-term trip
Whether you’re a seasoned team member or preparing for your first trip, short-term mission trips have the potential to make a meaningful global impact...
Cultural Humility in Healthcare
As we see an increasing number of culturally diverse patients in our practices or on the mission field, we need to understand how culture influences h...
Cultural Humility in Healthcare
As we see an increasing number of culturally diverse patients in our practices or on the mission field, we need to understand how culture influences h...
A Holistic Model to Address Youth Substance Use and Addictions in rural Africa
We developed a holistic approach to educating and ministering to youth who are vulnerable to substance use in a rural Uganda community. This model bot...
Introducing a comprehensive value-based Christian Healthcare Management Course
Introduction to a new comprehensive health care management course which is values-based
Pearls in Primary Care Psychopharmacology
Dive into decision support tools and management options for primary care mental health conditions that often stump the primary care clinician.
A Call to Serve
What is a call? How does a person know if God is calling them to mission service? Join in a discussion as these and other questions are addressed.
A Sustainable Missional Model for Healthcare in Resource Limited Settings: Lessons from India
Low resource settings require much innovation and streamlining resources to meet set goals. With healthcare becoming more commercial and profit driven...
Security Contingencies for International Missions
This session will examine key considerations for leaders, senders, and international travelers/workers in the areas of duty of care, risk assessment,...
Learning to Listen: A panel on finding God’s path for us
How do the lures of self-preservation and self-reliance block Kingdom work? A panel of providers, and a student minister share ways they live out the...
Supporting Global Health through Medical Education: Critical Care in Resource Limited Settings
Medical education has a potentially powerful role in global health. This breakout will explore some ways that medical education can not only support p...
Healthcare Impacting the Missionary Task
A discussion of the Core Missionary Task and how healthcare ministries integrate with the various components and help increase the effectiveness of ch...
Integrating Spiritual Care into Healthcare - An Evidence-Based Review
Spiritual care of our patients is critical for effective health care! After exploring the evidence for taking a spiritual history as well as for key i...
Case Studies in Human Trafficking: Recent Trends and Survivor Stories
Although public awareness has increased in the last few years, there remains a general lack of knowledge regarding the extent that trafficking in pers...
Spiritually Successful: How a healthcare career can build the Kingdom of God instead of our own
A resident, 2 doctors, a physician assistant and student minister share ways they live out the gospel through healthcare among those experiencing pove...
Malaria mitigation project in rural Uganda health center
Despite great progress in eliminating malaria in the country, cases of malaria remain high in certain areas of Uganda. Understanding the epidemiology...
Tent Visits and Working with Refugees
With around five years of experience working among refugees and IDPs, we will talk about some joys or opportunities there are working in a refugee cam...
Oral Heath Connections to Systemic Heath: Why your mission team needs a dentist
Does brushing your teeth regularly decrease Type II diabetes? We'll discuss that question and many others as we explore connections between oral and s...
The Idol of Effectiveness-- Redefining Success: EXPANDED
In a world that loves a “rags to riches” story, Jesus calls us into his upside-down kingdom where success is not always apparent. Dan* and Hope* have...
Chronic disease amid chronic poverty
Infectious diseases have been the leading cause of morbidity and mortality throughout history. Today, however, the burden of infectious diseases is di...
Standing Firmly in our Spiritual World
This session will cover a Biblical anchoring for spiritual oppression, the enemy's methods and goals, and tools for resisting the enemy.
Speaker...
Vaccines and Medications for Short-Term Medical Missions Trips
This session will review the most common medical considerations you should be aware of before traveling on a short-term medical mission trip. I will r...
Revolutionizing Compassionate Patient Care in Low-Resource Settings through Digital Systems
Quality digital systems in low-resource settings empower and engage healthcare workers to provide high-quality care for every person. With a responsiv...
Creating Healthy Communities: a Church-based, Community Health Worker-led Initiative
We aimed to assist church members in Hispanic churches to become certified and trained CHWs and mentor them to lead a six-month diabetes self-manageme...
Disability and Missions: Including People with Disabilities in the Church and Global Missions
In this session we will discuss the role of people with disabilities in missions as well as how to meet the needs of the global disabled community.
Supporting Global Critical Care in Resource Limited Countries through Medical Education
Medical education has a potentially powerful role in global health. This breakout will explore some ways that medical education can not only support p...
Not Just Caring FOR People, but Caring ABOUT People
This session will explore the importance of anticipating needs and listening to treat patients successfully. As clinicians, we quickly work towards so...
Emotional Healing Matters: 4 Proven Biblical Keys You Can Use
Your emotional health matters as you join God in His work among the nations. There are four proven biblical keys to receive your emotional healing and...
An Outrageous Hope for the Exploited and Trafficked
In this session, 'An Outrageous Hope for the Exploited and Trafficked,' Rachelle Starr, founder of Scarlet Hope and author of "Outrageous Obedience",...
Addressing child mental health needs across cultures
In this breakout session, we will explore cultural aspects of child mental health across the globe. How helpful are our “western” diagnoses for childr...
The "Happy Places" - Lessons from Healthcare Mission Stations with Happy Teams
Team discord is one of the most potent causes of healthcare missionary discontent and early departure from the field. However, a few healthcare missio...
Exploring Kingdom-Minded Family Medicine Residency Programs
A collaborative approach to learning more about kingdom-minded Family Medicine residencies: location, vision, etc. Come join this special time with me...
Minimizing Culture Shock Through Structured Debriefing
Culture shock is one of the things those serving on cross-cultural missions may experience. There may not be a process in place for those serving to d...
Case Studies in extra-pulmonary TB
Two cases of extra-pulmonary tb encountered in LMICs are presented
Speaker(s): Scott Armistead
Session webpage: https://www.medica...
A Call
What is a call? How does a person know if God is calling them to mission service? Join in a discussion as these and other questions are addressed.
Top 10 Research Papers in Global Health
In this session, we will review 10 potentially practice-changing articles for primary care in the developed and developing world from 2020-2025 and wi...
Ministry in the Marketplace
Have you ever considered how your professional skills can be used to advance God’s kingdom? Your career and ministry should not function separately —...
The Healthcare Missionary Job Description - You want me to do what?
What else might be asked of a physician, dentist, nurse or other healthcare professional serving cross-culturally that may stretch, challenge, and som...
Finding Your Best-fit Mission Agency
There are so many options of sending agencies, that many potential missionary workers don’t know where to begin. As a result, they often get overwhelm...
Five Principles for Long-term, sustaining impact on Short-term trip
Short-term missions. Whether you have participate in many or are just considering finding your first one, short-term mission trips do a lot of good ar...