Medicalmissions.com Podcast

One of the results of the global HIV and AIDS pandemic is an overwhelming number of orphans and vulnerable children. This session will discuss the unique needs of children impacted by HIV and AIDS and present "best practices" to guide the compassionate responses of the Church.

Professional nursing is the backbone of healthcare worldwide. Where nursing has not been recognized as a profession with its own knowledge and responsibilities to the public, healthcare has been affected. Bethel University and Uganda Christian University (UCUJ) have collaborated and joined forced to create academic programs in a rich Christian context to create well prepared nurses for the future of Uganda. Our partnership first created a degree completion program and currently the focus is on preparing nurse leaders at the masters’ level. This partnership has benefited both programs. A large number of Bethel University undergraduate senior nursing students spend January in Uganda, in the future some will spent a semester at UCU. Recently Masters’ student from UCU spent 10 weeks at Bethel’s campus. They took a combined class on Global Health with Bethel students. Bethel students reported the significant contribution of the UCU students to their learning. A number of Bethel faculty (and a few from elsew

Opportunities are increasing to teach colleagues, students, and others who speak and understand another language in which the teacher is not fluent. Such opportunities require the use of an interpreter. This session will consider: the need for interpreters, training in using them, professional vs. non-professional interpreters, preparing the interpreter for the session's), and the effectiveness of teaching through an interpreter. It will also touch on the use of translators, since they may also be needed if visual presentations or handouts are to be presented in the first language of the audience.

Starting with the premise that God wants us to be healthy, this talk will outline the resources God makes available to us for living healthy lives. This includes (1) The biblical understanding of nature as orderly, with all created things functioning according to the natural laws God has built into them. (2) How the original man and woman rejected the order God had established in natural and human life. They brought on themselves and subsequent human history the consequences of disease, degeneration, and death. Ill health is our fault, not God’s fault. (3) Obedience to God’s laws favors health. This includes laws found in the Bible. (4) It also includes laws discovered by science for science studies what God has made. (5) Practical examples to demonstrate this.

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.

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.

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 our paradigm of missions medicine to involve the pursuits of training of national staff and developing local programs of medical research (along with spiritual discipleship) which will allow for long-term change to be realized in the pursuit of providing quality, sustainable medical care in a Christ-like fashion.

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, how to get more involved, and what still needs to be done.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 in such a way to be applied to any aid related work.

Spiritual Survival Tips for Short-Term Medical Missions Team

Spiritual Survival Tips for Short-Term Medical Missions Team

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

What steps should I take so my efforts contribute to lasting change in the community where I will serve as a healthcare professional? You will review components, content, governance, and types of service providers in successful healthcare delivery systems and identify areas and opportunities for sustainable capacity building. A discussion of engagement strategies will follow, and will include political, regional, cultural, and worldview issues, and steps that will help avoid feeding corruption and creating dependency.

How can I get started in providing health care in the medical mission field? This workshop will help answer this essential question for those desiring to serve in medical missions, and those who desire to increase their effectiveness by partnering with others. Discuss motivations for partnership, including access to resources, experience, and needed capabilities; types of partners available; barriers to successful partnership; and initial steps necessary to begin to develop a successful partnership.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 in such a way to be applied to any aid related work.

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 in such a way to be applied to any aid related work.

This session answers the 10 basic questions most often asked by those considering career missionary service.