MedicalMissions.com Resources Podcast
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Resources for students, residents, and healthcare professionals who want to learn more about medical missions.
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Christian Doctors Digest - Paul Brand, MD | Paul Brand was an orthopedic surgeon and leading contributor to the study of leprosy, a disease that is a major scourge of the developing world. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christian Doctors Digest - Ernie Steury, MD | Miracle at Tenwek. Interview with Dr. Ernie Steury. Missionary to Kenya. Dr. Steury was Dr. David Stevens mentor. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Educational Loans do not have to Dictate the Terms of Your Medical Mission Service | A Biblical view of money and material things will help you to keep student loan borrowing to a minimum so that you can serve where God has called you-- without delay. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Introduction to International Human Trafficking | While not a new problem, human trafficking is now a globally acknowledged issue of our times. Even so, many people do not have a solid grasp of what exactly it is, how it happens, and what the core issues are in order to counter it. An overview of human trafficking internationally, including to/from the USA as well as outside the States is presented here. Some specific examples of how human trafficking may intersect the life and work of health care professionals are given, but more depth on that topic is given in other talks. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nuts and Bolts of an International Medical Missions Rotation | The nuts and bolts for students of an international health-care short term mission rotation. Choosing, preparing for, and successful completion of a short-term mission opportunity. This is for nursing, pre-professional, medical, dental, pharmacy, public health and other allied health-care students and post-graduate residents. Purpose: Acquaint the professional student with (1) Blessings, advantages and benefits of an international rotation especially in a mission setting. (2) Preparing oneself personally, including spiritual, emotional and academic preparation, for the best experience. (3) Process of choosing where to go, permission from your school, funding, establishing mentors and other preparations to gain the most from the experience. (4) The importance of post-trip debriefing and mentoring while looking toward the future. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cross Cultural Spiritual Ministry | Cross-cultural Spiritual Ministry in Healthcare. How does one address spiritual needs in cross-cultural healthcare ministry? There are important principals and presuppositions we must understand if we are to effectively address spiritual needs and dimensions of people and communities. You cannot reach competency in wholistic healthcare missions simply in one or two hours. What is the goal of this session? To challenge you through stories, lessons learned, mistakes made and discussion to pursue a deeper understanding of the needs, barriers, opportunities, expectations and joys of integrated spiritual ministry in a cross-cultural international setting. Goals: (1) Setting the tone for spiritual ministry (2) Understanding the importance of culture and worldview (3) Establishing a team approach (4) Hindrances, especially to the western-trained professional (5) Resources | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transferring Sills in Short Term Dental Missions | Jesus asked us to imitate Him. With Jesus as our model we will present teaching approaches that will empower nationals to serve their community. By presenting teaching methods tested and proven successful with dentistry, we propose to apply them to other areas of medicine to allow believers to meet the healthcare needs in their communities. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How dental and medical training can empower indigenous believers | Teaching nationals can expand your impact. Our session will explore avenues to produce success in missions, both at home and abroad. We will speak on dentistry producing explosive church planting in Sierra Leone, the process of training nationals on a short term trip including the effects it has on the dentist/trainer, and how dentistry has equipped nationals in Nigeria for long-term service. We will also hear about the initial presentation of our medical module in Haiti and Sudan. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding Appropriate Medical Resources | The search for medical equipment and supplies for your mission project seems to be a never ending challenge. We often settle for whatever we can find and have low expectations. God has high standards and the ability to provide if we seek Him for these resources. This session will provide information on how to evaluate medical projects, determine what specific equipment is needed, and how to find the resources to meet those needs. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spiritual Survival Tips for Short Term Medical Mission Teams | Usually the focus of short-term medical missions is to meet the needs of the population visited. This presentation will shed some light on Spiritual survival tips needed for the team members. Addressing their Spiritual need will equip each member of the medical mission team to become more efficient in reaching target population medically and Spiritually. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The health consequences of human trafficking | Human trafficking has grave consequences on the health of victims and includes a wide variety of health issues. This talk is designed to inform health care professionals on what these issues are, and how they may specifically work with a trafficked person, given the trauma that a victim may experience. Health care may be one of the few intersection points where a trafficked person meets someone in the public sphere and a few indicators for identifying someone who may be trafficked will also be discussed. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Practices and Medical Missions | Objectives: (1) Describe the six key indigenous partner groups needed for effective medical missions (2) Discuss three common challenge areas for medical missions: Missiologic Point of View, Curative Care Perspective, Surgical Care (3) Explore WHO guidelines relevent to the use of oral medications in medical missions | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global, Local, Short Term, Long Term: Biblical Models for Being “Missional” | The New Testament gives not one but several models for doing missions. New Testament models of missions are far more flexible and less narrowly defined than the way we typically think of missions. The usual conception of a missionary as one who follows a “call” to go abroad is just one facet of missions. In this session we will explore the Biblical patterns and trajectories of what it means to do missions—at home and abroad, and discover what the Bible has to say to us about being “missional” in the 21st Century. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avoiding and Overcoming Unhealthy Dependency in Cross-Cultural Healthcare | Glenn Schwartz will speak about the issue of healthy sustainability in the Christian movement. He gives historical insights into how the dependency syndrome in cross-cultural missions develops and, more importantly, how it can be overcome. This presentation will also include several short case studies about mission-established hospitals and how they moved toward local sustainability. His primary emphasis is two-fold: One is that unhealthy dependency can be avoided from the beginning in cross-cultural ministry. The second is that the dependency syndrome can be overcome where it has become established. He believes that churches and other institutions do not need to suffer long-term consequences from this illness, and there is plenty of evidence to confirm that. Obviously there are places in the world where outside assistance is justified, but in many places local resources are available for those who adjust strategies to identify and mobilize them. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Short Term Mission Boot Camp - Learning to Do It Well | With stories laced with humor learn the principles and practices of a great short term mission experience whether you are going for the first or your fortieth time. You, your patients and the building of God's kingdom will be better for it! | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Residency Training Programs at Mission Hospitals: Obstacles, Challenges, and Blessings | Is it possible to do true academic style residency training at mission hospitals in developing countries? Does the lack of resources and scarcity of mentors result in inferior training and therefore inadequately trained graduates? What governmental or regulatory bodies are involved in non-university based training programs in the developing world? Do short term visiting faculty really make a difference? How can spiritual discipleship be woven into medical and surgical residency training? During this breakout session, Dr. Carol Spears (missionary surgeon and Assistant Program Director at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya) and Dr. Agneta Odera (Kenyan physician in her third year of General Surgery Residency Training at Tenwek) will share their experiences in starting and developing a General Surgery Training Program in partnership with the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons. They will share their own stories of challenges, mistakes, areas of ongoing deficiency, as well as helpful hints, blessings, and personal stories. The goal of this session is to provide a minimal set of requirements needed for a successful residency training program and to provide information on resources available to assist new programs. The approach of training others to then go and train others models the example Jesus established in his ministry on earth. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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WHO/UNICEF Child Health Standards for Developing Communities | This session will overview WHO/UNICEF child health Standards as they apply to both short and long-term health missions. We will look at some of the relevant literature and review health indicators to be assessed in both long and short term health missions. We will also look at how to use the data collected from the use of relevant indicators to establish community disease and malnutrition prevalence and specific community health programming targets. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Operating Responsible Short-term Healthcare Missions | This session will review case presentations that demonstrate the potential for harm associated with healthcare missions. We will look at methods by which such problems can be avoided. The potential for harm related to short-term medical missions does exist, and in a much more real way than most of us care to acknowledge. It is only through the careful examination of such problems can we develop health mission strategies that mitigate harm, and improve community health. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Am Not Fair Trade: A Look At Human Trafficking In The Health Care System | Health care settings offer multiple opportunities for victims of human trafficking to be identified and/or rescued. In this session a brief overview of the phenomenon of human trafficking will be provided. Participants will receive training on victim identification and will be taught concrete steps on what to do if human trafficking is suspected. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Playing God and other Ethical Issues in Missionary Medicine | Facing unlimited needs and limited resources of personnel, equipment and supplies, medical missionaries daily have to "play God." What Biblical and ethical guidelines and practices can guide you through these and other ethical minefields that almost no one talks about? What changes are mandatory to your American thinking if you are going to survive and flourish? | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interactive Forum on Sustainability of Christian Medical Institutions | Glenn Schwartz will speak about the issue of healthy sustainability in the Christian movement. He gives historical insights into how the dependency syndrome in cross-cultural missions develops and, more importantly, how it can be overcome. This presentation will also include several short case studies about mission-established hospitals and how they moved toward local sustainability. His primary emphasis is "two-fold: One is that unhealthy dependency can be avoided from the beginning in cross-cultural ministry. The second is that the dependency syndrome can be overcome where it has become established. He believes that churches and other institutions do not need to suffer long-term consequences from this illness, and there is plenty of evidence to confirm that. Obviously there are places in the world where outside assistance is justified, but in many places local resources are available for those who adjust strategies to identify and mobilize them. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Healing and the Middle Way: Medical Mission in a Buddhist Worldview | Buddhists in East Asia largely believe in one of the dominant Buddhist traditions, animism and ancestor worship. They believe in karma, the moral law of cause and effect which demands that every soul suffer for its past “sins;” so there is no value in alleviating suffering. While very few Buddhists have come to Christ through the direct preaching of the gospel, some have responded to the compassion shown by medical missionaries since the early 19th century. This session features the plight of one leprosy patient, an outcast in society who gradually found new life through the lives of Christians who dared to touch him, clean his wounds and tell him about Jesus. This session will bring attendees face to face with a culture that is very resistant to the gospel, the reasons for that resistance and what we can do about it. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Medical Missions - Past, Present & Future | The enterprise of medical missions has brought health and opened the doors for the gospel in countless countries. This rich history continues today. In Africa, 40-70% of health services are still provided by church and mission facilities. How do we build on the achievements of yesteryears and achieve success in the years to come? How can you fit in? | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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HIV/AIDS Case Studies 2010 | HIV/AIDS remains a tremendous challenge with medical, emotional, economic and social problems. Using case presentations and an interactive format, this workshop will explore HIV/AIDS care and treatment issues particularly from the speaker’s experience in Africa | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Practices in Short Term Missionary Nursing | This session will look at a Nursing Process approach to address global health problems at the community level. We will look specifically at nursing led cross-cultural health fairs as safe and effective model of short-term healthcare missions. An overview of the literature that supports this short-term mission model will also be reviewed. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Preparation for surgery as a career in medical missions | This session with consist of a brief presentation followed by a panel discussion during an open question and answer period. Becoming a surgeon on the mission field, especially if one is interested in teaching, is a process which is more complex and takes more preparation than expected. The session is designed for medical students, surgical residents and those wishing to leave their practice to join the ranks of career missionaries. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who am I, Oh Lord, that You Have Brought Me This Far | -- | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mid-Levels: a Perfect Fit for the Developing World | The presentation will feature the personal experience of a physician assistant who has provided healthcare in the developing world most recently in Latin America, India and Africa. The advantages of the training and healthcare provision capabilities of the mid-level, the obstacles to healthcare provision in the developing world and the means by which those obstacles can be overcome will be discussed. The importance of national partners in the medical mission field for follow up and if possible for continuity of care will be examined. The speaker will present an overview of organizations that are recruiting mid-levels for short and full term medical missions. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Measuring Effectiveness of Local Health Engagement | Short-term health-related missions have been criticized for inadequate long-term impact on local health indicators, and on the actual team participants. Costs for short-term medical missions appear excessive to some, given the limited impact on spiritual and physical needs. This session will examine the criticism and present proposed measures of effectiveness that can be used by short-term and long-term trip planners and strategists so as to support improved planning and execution of short-term medical missions trips. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Won’t “They” Listen? | Why don’t they see that what they are doing is wrong! Why don’t they understand my explanation? Why won’t they look at me when I talk to them? Why won’t they make a decision…after all, any decision is better than no decision at all! Why won’t the listen! Learn why these and other “misunderstandings” result in “mis-communications” in the world of cross-cultural ministry and how we can overcome them. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Master's Preparation for Global Health Missions | This presentation will challenge participants to focus on where the Master is at work in their lives and inviting them to join Him in global health missions. The motives for global health missions in the context of the needs and expectations of those to be served will be examined. Participants will be encouraged to reflect upon the health and well being of their body, mind and spirit through a series of guided questions. A process for gathering and engaging a partnership team for accountability and spiritual support will be discussed. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Preparing to Be a Missionary Overseas | Is missions on your mind? Learn to get from where you are to where God wants you to be, well prepared spiritually, emotionally, relationally and professionally for what God has designed you to be. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Community PEACE - Development with a Purpose | Uniqueness and distinctness of Community PEACE as holistic developmental strategy with transformational outcomes | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stories from the Field 1 | An assortment of personal stories shared by Steve Saint from his time in Equator and other places around the world. Steve will share insights into how to engage indigenous people groups with resources for developing communities and how best to work with them to instill dignity and ownership. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning from Each Other About CHE | This session will bring people together that have been doing CHE or starting to use CHE as a wholistic community development tool. Therefore most of the presentation will come from the people in the seminar sharing their experiences including their success and failures. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Medicine that Empowers Communities | This session will be both philosophical and practical and will be shared from the perspective of one who has served as a bridge between the professional medical practitioner and some of the world’s poorest communities. Insights will come from practical examples and case studies of professional clinicians who have played a role in effectively empowering community development and those that haven’t, all within the context of understanding how we respond to the needs of the world is just as important as responding. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Makes Christian Health Care Christian | Christians are called to live out the gospel through every area of our lives, including our work in healthcare. This workshop will look at the role that Christians should play in expressing Christ’s kingdom through healthcare. We will examine successful established domestic Christian medical mission models and lessons from the ministry of Christ to identify what makes Christian medicine unique. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Standards of Excellence and Disaster Relief | Disaster response provides tremendous opportunities for compassion ministry and short-term mission teams. The 7 Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission will be reviewed in the context of disaster relief. These standards help to insure appropriate focus on long term relief and recovery, participation and empowerment of national workers, and prevention of dependence and paternalism. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Participatory Approaches in Community | -- | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Person is a Person, No Matter How Small | -- | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Q&A on Becoming a Missionary: Panel with two docs & two nurses | This session will share answers on how to become a medical missionary. Each person who attends will receive a 3 x 5 card when they enter the room. The moderator John McVay will group and select questions, direct them to appropriate panelists, and receive questions from the floor. Probable topics discussed from questions expected are: Guidance, Agencies, Training, Funding, Singles, and Families. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Team Leading for Short Term Mission Trips | Session will discuss the nuts, bolts, and challenges of being a team leader, especially as a mid-level provider. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science, Religion and Healthcare | (1) What is the conflict between Science and Religion all about? (2) What are the differences between Evidence Based Medicine, Market Based Medicine and Complimentary and Alternative Medicine? (3) What are the differences between Religiosity and Spirituality? (4) What is the Faith Factor and how strong is the relationship to increased health benefits? (5) What do the Intercessory Prayer Studies show? (6) Divine Healing, Gifts of Healings, and Faith Healing—What are the differences? (7) Spirituality in Medicine—How does the Christian healthcare worker integrate Good Science with a Biblical Worldview and the Great Commission? | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Support of the Indigenous Institutions | Steve Saint unpacks lessons in how to support the indiginous person and how to support the indigenous institution by equipping them with the resources to own the work of their hands. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Use of CHE in North America | This session will introduce people to how CHE is being used in North America in seeing urban underserved neighborhoods. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Disaster Paradigm© and a Review of Priorities in Disaster Relief | This session will focus on important priorities, challenges and risks encountered in disaster relief. A brief introduction to the Disaster Paradigm© based on the AMA’s Disaster Life Support Courses will be reviewed. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stories from the Field 2 | An assortment of personal stories shared by Steve Saint from his time in Equator and other places around the world. Steve will share insights into how to engage indigenous people groups with resources for developing communities and how best to work with them to instill dignity and ownership. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continuity in a Community Health and Development Project in Uganda - 25 Years and Counting | This session will discuss an effective community-based health and development/discipleship ministry in Eastern Uganda that began in the mid 1980s and is still active. This project has had remarkable sustainability and reasonable costs. Anecdotal and statistical information will be presented about the program activities in terms of both community and staff impact. The role of encouragement as a reciprocal empowerment strategy will be highlighted | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sustainability of Healthcare Missions in the 21st Century - Reflections from the Field | What really IS sustainability? Are any health care institutions truly sustainable, in either the developed or the developing world? A refreshing look at an age-old missionary dilemma | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transforming Neighborhoods from the Inside Out | This session will introduce people to how CHE is being used in North America in seeing urban underserved neighborhoods become transformed from the inside out using the assets that are found in the neighborhood by | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Student reflections on NCF Uganda Global Project and applying lessons learned to school and service | Join us as Global Project directors Connie Jarlsberg and Renee Lick along with student participants share lessons learned and the way God transformed them and their Ugandan ministry partners as they served and learned together. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being a Missionary Multiplier: Multiplying & Reproducing Yourself Spiritually on the Mission Field | Missionaries are sent to reproduce themselves spiritually. Yet how do you do that in the midst of a busy clinical and hospital schedule? This seminar will equip you with a biblical model and a simple time-sensitive plan to build and multiply the number of Christ-followers and spiritual leaders among your patients, colleagues, and others on your mission field. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Help or Harm: What do we Treat on Short Term Mission Trips? | She was part of a first response medical relief team with North Carolina Baptist Men's Dissaster Relief Organziation arriving only 6 days after the earthquake, the modern worlds worst natural disaster. She worked in two hospitals providing first response disaster medical care. this session will describe the conditions she found in Haiti, her work providing medical care in disaster conditions as well as the issues related to providing disaster medical care in the third world. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Caring For the Whole Person? Is it Possible? | Medical science is beginning to recognize that considering the emotional makeup of patients is important in extending care. Psychology is making concession that health is more a sense of emotional and physical well being, but neglects the Spiritual component of who we are. This session will offer a practical application in caring for the “Whole Person”- emotionally, physically and spiritually. Hear examples of how Whole Person Care has impacted the lives of countless patients as seen in a busy Internal Medicine practice. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No hands but yours: Medical Disaster Relief after the Haitian Earthquake | April Perry has worked in Haiti for over 10 years, leading short term medical missionaries as wel las founding and chairing a christian non profit which promotes public health initiatives in rural areas and urban slums in haiti. She was part of a first response medical relief team with North Carolina Baptist Men's Dissaster Relief Organziation arriving only 6 days after the earthquake, the modern worlds worst natural disaster. She worked in two hospitals providing first response disaster medical care. this session will describe the conditions she found in Haiti, her work providing medical care in disaster conditions as well as the issues related to providing disaster medical care in the third world. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Developing Local Resources for Christian Hospitals in India | Empowering Local Churches and Christian Business CEO's and Medical faculty to be involved in nurturing and directing Mission Hospitals in their own States,Cities and Towns. Reveal the relevance of Matt:28:19-20 to the work God has called the Church and the Christian Medical missions alongside every believer, to make Christ known. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Secular Medical Missions: A Different Motivation | Anecdotal evidence points to a general uptick in the interest and participation of volunteerism, including medical volunteerism. In contrast to Christian and Christ-centered medical missions, many volunteers are secular and have no religious affiliation when they work abroad. Recent studies have also shown a significance interest in medical missions overseas in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. The aim of this workshop will be to review the literature regarding secular medical missions. Additionally, the role of medical missions in secular medical education will be considered. Finally, the motivations for medical volunteerism, its relation – either positive or negative – with Christian medical missions, and the lines of dialogue between secular and Christian medical missions will be discussed. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Nuts, Bolts, and Duct Tape of Doing a Short-term Health Outreach | In this session we will be discussing almost every aspect of how to perform a short term health outreach: how to arrange travel, how to determine your formulary and where to find the cheapest medications, which dental equipment works best and where to obtain it, which optometry diagnostic systems are best in a portable environment, where to obtain the cheapest eyeglasses, and how to integrate evangelism into your health outreach. This session includes almost everything you need to know to effectively execute a short term health outreach in a foreign country. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Working with the Homeless | The session will cover the current statistics of homelessness in America, the main approaches to addressing homelessness, and a case study of the “Service First” model where the homeless are invited to join service projects with other groups that benefit the community. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Communities Attain MDGs 1-7 Through Comprehensive, Community-Based Primary Health Care | In 2000 the global community through the United Nations adopted ambitious goals to improve the lives of especially the least advantaged in the world by 2015 – Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Since 1970 the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), Jamkhed, India, has pioneered the philosophy, principles and practice of comprehensive, community-based primary health care. Through this approach, based on Christian values, communities have been empowered and transformed, especially the poor and marginalized, women and children. Community members have learned to work together across social divisions and solve problems together for the well-being of the whole village – and have reached all the MDGs. This sustainable approach addresses social determinants and other root causes, including the caste system, harmful traditional practices, status of women and poverty. Caring and sharing communities are formed living in harmony, health and peace – shalom. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Case Study of the Vanga Health System in the Congo | The Vanga Hospital began in a rural area of western Congo in 1920. Beginning in 1961 the hospital grew into a comprehensive and sustainable Christian health service run by the Congolese church in partnership with a missionary staff. The health system includes: (1) A 400 bed multi-specialty teaching hospital (2) A school for training nurse practitioners and nurse midwives (3) A widespread system of improving community health through dialogue and community initiatives (4) A decentralized network of rural health centers that make primary health care services accessible to the entire population of 250,000 in the catchment area (5) A family medicine residency for Congolese family physicians (6) A team approach to caring for the whole person (7) An integrated approach to coping with the HIV-AIDS epidemic | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Micah the Prophet and God's People in the Ages of AIDS | -- | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Incorporating Spiritual Ministry in Short-Term Medical Missions | This talk will begin by examining the biblical basis for mission and the biblical basis for linking spiritual and medical ministry. It will then look at practical ways that spiritual ministry can be incorporated into short term medical mission projects for maximum impact for the kingdom. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Starting a Successful Ante-natal Program | Many women in the developing world suffer from a dearth of antenatal health care. This is due to many factors such as including lack of qualified, trained medical cadre, women’s health illiteracy, and harmful cultural practices. As a result many women have increased morbidity and mortality related to pregnancy. Along with this there is often high infant mortality rates as well. Setting up a culturally relevant and attractive antenatal program can be a challenge. The speaker will share from her personal experiences in Southern Sudan on how one such program was started in an area where nearly 99% of the women birthed at home and never received any antenatal care prior to this program. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Survive in the Bush | There are few areas in the world these days where missionaries have to learn to survive in the bush. However, we are mandated by Christ to go unto the ends of the earth. Subsequently, some practitioners will end up called to live in some areas that still lack basic infrastructures. Surviving such extremes can be quite challenging in many ways. Medical practitioners have to practice medicine with little or no diagnostic help other than their own clinical skills. Their families will have to learn to survive without electricity, internet, running water, or personal space. The speaker and her husband will share from their own personal experiences of living 4 years in Southern Sudan on how they lived and did more than just “merely survive.” | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Selected Infectious Diseases: Treatment Updates | There is great concern about the extent to which certain microorganisms have become resistant to the antimicrobial agents to which they were once highly susceptible. At the same time, there has been a significant decline in the number of new antimicrobial agents being developed and marketed. This presentation considers the uses and most important characteristics of the new drugs for the treatment of infectious diseases. Where possible, the properties of the new drugs are compared with those of older drugs available for the same uses. A New Drug Comparison Rating (NDCR) is provided for each of the new antimicrobial agents. Selected infections (e.g., HIV/AIDS, malaria) that are of particular importance in parts of the world in which missions programs are based are considered, as are selected infections (e.g., MRSA, Lyme disease) that represent important challenges in the United States. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Potential Dangers Associated with Treatment and Prophylaxis of Malaria | Malaria prevention and prompt treatment often requires the use of effective antimalarials that many practitioners do not routinely use. These medications are not benign and do have potential adverse effects and drug interactions that we should be aware of and proactive in preventing. This session will review potential adverse effects, drug interactions and the risk of developing resistance for the current prophylaxis agents and the current treatment regimens of malaria. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women Physicians on the Mission Field | This session consists of a panel of women physicians who have served or are serving long term in medical missions. They will describe their call to missions, their missions service, and answer questions from the audience regarding issues of particular interest to women medical students and physicians considering medical missions. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Approach to Diarrheal Illness for the Medical Missionary | The etiology of diarrheal illness in the mission field differs considerably from that in developed countries and requires a different approach for the short-term or new medical missionary. This talk will prepare the medical missionary to evaluate and manage common diarrheal illnesses seen on the mission field, emphasizing clinical evaluation and diagnosis in conditions of limited laboratory availability. The causes of disease commonly seen on the mission field and clinical clues to their diagnosis will be emphasized. Treatment will be discussed with an emphasis on oral rehydration therapy included. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Spiritual History - How and why healthcare professionals should utilize them | Why does the Joint Commission now require a spiritual history for hospital admissions? This evidence-based review of the literature looks at the how’s and why’s of spiritual assessment in clinical medicine with a practical how-to time of discussion. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care: Preaching to the Choir and the Sex Workers | This session will address how the Church can be mobilized toward practical responses in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and for the care of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS. Biblically-informed approaches, examples and case studies from Food for the Hungry and other ministries will emphasize how grassroots efforts can be informed by proven strategies that have measureable and multiplicative effect. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mountaintop Experience: Confessions of Short-Term Missions Addict | It has often been said that one of the greatest reasons for people not to enter long-term missions is short-term missions. Using my own example as a case-study, we'll examine the logic and rationale behind this statement, and how short-term medical missions can be both a boon and detriment to the case of long-term missions. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Update on Drug Counterfeiting | The entry of counterfeit medicines into the USA has accelerated greatly as a result of illegal internet pharmacies. Some major changes have occurred in the policies of some website search engines that will impede the entry of counterfeit medicines into the US, but this will be probably only a temporarily reduce the size of the counterfeit market in the US. This presentation will cover the following issues: 1. Examples of the impact of drug counterfeits in the USA and abroad. However, this is not a witch hunt of counterfeit medicines. The purpose of these examples is to get your attention as to the urgency of this problem. 2. Counterfeit medicines in general: The magnitude of the problem. 3. Examples of the impact of counterfeit medicines on mortality and morbidity. 4. Solutions: Levels of counterfeit prevention measures: Overt, Covert, and Forensic. 5. Examples of each of the above types of intervention. 6. Changes In US law and current CA law to mandate implementation of ePedigree and other counterfeit intervention and drug diversion protection measures. 7. How to know from which internet pharmacies are safe to order drugs. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The THV-50-40-10® : Total Health Village - a unique strategy for Holistic community development | MAP’s ministry is grounded in a broad vision and understanding of health. MAP’s guiding principles state that among the many human needs, it is called to focus on the ministry of Total Health. Total health doesn’t describe the state of someone’s health but rather the ways that individuals, families and communities can take responsible action to improve their well-being. Self empowerment and holism are therefore important dimensions of the THV50-40-10®.The THV50-40-10®program is a ‘Low input, high-impact strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals’. It is a cost effective community development strategy that leads to Total Well being; a way to impact a whole village of close to a thousand people through a facilitative and low input cost strategy .It is a completely Participatory strategy where communities identify needs, analyze their situation, plan a response strategy, actively work with the CORP (Community’s Own Resource Persons) and ENGAGE actively in solving their own problems. The session will cover the principles, practices and strategies for launching THV-50-40-10® (Total Health Village) | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Global Burden of Disease | This lecture will present the changing face of disease in the world and how it corresponds with globalization. There is an epidemiological transition occurring from infectious to chronic diseases. Mortality from chronic diseases has been rising in the US for many years. However, developing nations are also seeing a rise in chronic diseases; and they are now the largest cause of death in the world. The leading causes of chronic diseases will be presented in this lecture along with their shared key risk factors. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Teaching overseas | To present teaching in the healthcare professions as an opportunity for missions. There is a global need for healthcare professionals with critical thinking and problem solving skills for competent practice in today’s healthcare environment. This has created a demand for qualified educators in the healthcare professions and opened doors for Christian educators to fill these roles and be involved in evangelism, discipleship and the development of Christian leaders in healthcare for the nations. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Opportunities to Serve the World...or Your Local Community as a Pharmacist | This session will explore opportunities to serve full time or short term as a pharmacist both globally in Latin America as well as domestically . From medical mission trips floating down the Amazon River in Bolivia where interacting with indigenous tribes is the primary focus, to caring for the underserved at medical clinics in Southwest Virginia. This session will be an informative, personal session to provide professionals with opportunities to serve in groups or as individuals in pharmacy based settings. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Promoting nursing excellence in India | Nurses from developed countries who have advanced degrees, such as MSN and PHd. are strategically positioned to meet the growing need of Nursing Leadership development of nurse leaders and the promotion of excellence in nursing care in developing countries. Today in many developing countries, nursing is still yet to be recognized for its significant impact on quality patient care. As a result, these nurses are seen more as subordinates to physicians and lack the opportunities to develop to their full potential as leaders in health care organizations and in the provision of quality patient care. This session will provide you with the knowledge of the presenter's journey in living & working as a missionary nurse in India, and her continued passion to work with nurses in India while now living in the USA. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Catalyzing Changes in Health Related Behavior | This talk will examine cultural dynamics and work through the layers of culture from the outer layer of behavior down through the layers of values and beliefs to the core of worldview assumptions. Customs and health-related behavior derive from the basic assumptions about God, humankind, nature, and the origin of disease. Only when these worldview assumptions are understood and entry-points found to bring in new ideas can sustainable behavior change occur. Examples will be given. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Worms and the medical missionary | A practical review of parasitic diseases uncommonly seen in the developed world but commonly encountered on the mission field will be presented to help re-familiarize the new or short- term medical missionary with these diseases. The emphasis will be on practical diagnosis and management in settings lacking easy laboratory access. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Practice in Short Term Medical Missions | How to have a long term impact with a short term medical team? Philosophy of Ministry, National Partnerships, Careful Preparation, Effective Clinic Outreach and Post Trip Attention all are critical ingredients! . To Cover Philosophy of Ministry, Partnership with Local Host Ministry, Preparing and Recruiting, Local Host Responsibility, Arrival and Clinic Week, Extracurricular Activities, Leave Taking/ Farewell/ Re-Entry | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jesus and the Good Doctor: A Call to Holy Medicine | There are inherent dangers that come with following Jesus into a ministry of medicine. God's ways are not the ways of men and all too often health care professionals are slowly led astray from their original intent and calling to follow Jesus into a life of healing. God's heart is to bring restoration to a fallen world. But God's purpose of restoration can easily get lost as we enter into the health care system. Now more than ever, we need to maintain biblical fidelity in our medical practices. In this seminar, we will focus on Jesus' mission to bind up the broken hearted by surveying the biblical foundations for healing ministry in Isaiah, Luke, and Acts. We will also discuss what it will take to recover the holy call of healing. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Keep Your Promise to God, Preparing for a Career in Domestic or International Missions | There are countless barriers that prevent aspiring healthcare missionaries from achieving their goals. Come learn strategies for recognizing and overcoming both obvious and hidden obstacles. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Biblical Basis for Community Health | 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. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Empowering Nurses for the Advancement of the Profession of Nursing in Uganda through Collaboration | 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 elsewhere) are involved in teaching in the masters’ program taught modularly and online. This collaboration is empowering nurse leaders (particularly nurse educators) to advance the profession of nursing in Uganda. We hope to draw students from other parts of Africa to join in the masters’ program. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Developing a Prayer Life That Will Sustain You In The Tough Places | Disciples who commit themselves to risky obedience will face strong opposition from enemies within and without. Jesus gave often overlooked counsel on how to wage prayer warfare. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Planning an Effective Pharmacy on Short-Term Medical Mission Projects | Having the appropriate pharmacy supplies and medications are essential to ensure your short-term mission trip is successful. This session will address how to plan and execute a well run pharmacy during a short term medical mission trip. Planning a formulary, acquisition of medication and supplies, transporting medication, packaging and dispensing, patient counseling and other pharmacy services will be discussed. Contributions and best practices from the audience will be encouraged. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clinical Pharmacy on the Mission Field | Drawing on personal experiences as a missionary pharmacist in Mongolia and Tanzania, this session discusses the many aspects of clinical pharmacy for which pharmacists may have opportunity in a mission hospital. Activities such as morning rounds with missionary/volunteer physicians, medication substitution, identifying a formulary for short term clinic outreaches, serving on a mission hospital P&T committee, working within the WHO essential drug list and providing patient counseling in another language. Other pharmacist activities specific to the mission hospital setting will be discussed, including making intravenous solutions and antibiotic ointments, translation of package insert into the local languages, serving as a preceptor overseas and allowing God to work miracles when the medication runs out and getting outside your comfort zone. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Community Health Evangelism | Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is a breakthrough mission strategy that seamlessly integrates evangelism and discipleship with disease prevention and community-based development. Through CHE ministries people become followers of Jesus, churches are planted, and entire communities are lifted out of cycles of poverty and disease. Terry Dalrymple has been instrumental in guiding the expansion of a worldwide CHE movement that now involves more than 250 organizations in 93 countries. In this workshop, Terry will describe how to implement an integrated community health program in rural villages. He will also connect participants with resources and collaborative partners to help build and expand their own programs. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Community Based Development in the Urban Slum | The course will deal with poverty in the urban slum. Attention will be given to a Biblical framework for development and a strategy for doing "Kingdom Development". Illustrations will come from lessons being learned in Nairobi, Kenya, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, and Bangkok Thailand. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fighting the Diseases of Poverty | Poverty and health are intimately associated. The nations of poverty are also home to the lowest life expectancy, greatest child mortality, and highest number of preventable deaths. Three interventions are especially effective. First, we must promote economic development, for history demonstrates that as overall income increase so does health status. Second, we must stand against military conflict, for in nations so embattled over 90 percent of deaths are from hunger and infectious diseases. Third, we must advocate those specific interventions that have proven most effective against the leading diseases of poverty, such as provision of safe drinking water and mosquito nets to prevent malaria, though these interventions may be inconsistent with the standard medical paradigm. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Medical Missions coupled with Oral Strategies: Powerful Combination to Reach 80% of the World. | How do we communicate the Truth of Scriptures to the 80% of the oral learners in the world who can not read or prefer not to read? Do people say no to the Biblical content, or do they really need help to understand? Accurate Bible Stories come alive to patients and open the Scriptures to a lost and dying world. Explore wonderful oral style communication methods that empower medical workers and assistants to share Bible stories in natural conversational ways. Learn to put these Bible stories in your heart pocket and tell them while attending to patients, visiting those in need, or anywhere daily life leads. Missionaries say, "We are seeing results like we have never known", "People understand" and "lives are changed in ways I never imagined. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Introduction to Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking | This session will introduce the attendee to the topic of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) by giving both a definition and examples of DMST. The session will also include discussion of the predisposing factors toward DMST, recruiting techniques, mindset of the victim, indicators of DMST, and what to do if you encounter a potential victim of DMST. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Survey of worldwide holistic practices | Terry Dalrymple is a pioneer in integrated or holistic ministry practice on a worldwide scale. He coordinates a network of more than 250 organizations doing holistic ministry in 93 countries. In this workshop Terry will share stories of community transformation, and survey principles and best practices for holistic community development. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Orphans and Vulnerable Children - The Church's Response | 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. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips on Using Interpreters and Translators in Teaching Internationally | 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. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How the medical professional can become an abolitionist | This session will give the medical professional ideas of how he/she can become more involved within the abolitionist movement that is rising up across America to fight the modern day slavery of human trafficking. Specific suggestions will be given regarding ways to become involved by raising awareness of human trafficking, training individuals on human trafficking, and even getting involved with victims of trafficking. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Case Culturally Based HIV Education | Obedience to God’s laws favors health. This includes laws found in the Bible. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Die to Live, Live to Die | -- | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Indicators of Transformation: Evaluating Holistic Development Programs | Transformation is essentially a God process. Can the less tangible as well as tangible aspects of this process be measured in a meaningful way as we engage in holistic development? This session will present some case studies to help us identify various indicators of transformation and propose models to evaluate holistic development programs. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Abundance from the Ordinary | Identifying and using local resources to address both nutritional and economic needs of you community. Emphasis will be place on nutrious tropical plants that can be used as perennial vegetables and have proven health benefits. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blessings of Lifetime Jungle Surgery | 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. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Healthcare for all by the year 2020 | This session will address three questions: What are the cultural origins of health-related behavior? How can we help people and communities change health-related behavior through changes in the cultural origins of their behavior? How does community health promote the spiritual being of the people? | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PLENARY SESSION: Closing Session | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PLENARY SESSION: Brother Danie | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nursing Leadership Development through STMs | Nurses from developed countries who have advanced degrees, such as MSN and PHd. are strategically positioned to meet the growing need of Nursing Leadership development of nurse leaders in developing countries. Today in many developing countries, nursing is still yet to be recognized for its significant impact on quality patient care. As a result, these nurses are seen more as subordinates to physicians and lack the opportunities to develop to their full potential as leaders in healthcare organizations and in the provision of quality patient care. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bible & Missions | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raising Cadavers | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Primum Non Nocere": First, Do No Harm | This is one of the principle precepts taught in every med school, and is the basis for all emergency medicine. But while we are careful to “do no harm” with our patients, we overlook the harm we do in perpetuating a fallen health delivery system by the way we run our practices. This workshop examines several best practice models of how Christian health professionals have chosen to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, and will challenge us to look at our responsibility as ambassadors of Christ’s Kingdom to transform our practice of medicine in ways that reflect His character and will. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Things They Didn't Teach You in Nursing School | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Relying on the Holy Spirit | As a health professional you?re trained to take control and rely on your training and experience to accomplish your work. In ministry, Jesus notes, ?apart from me you can do nothing.? More, he told the disciples to not even leave for the mission field until they had the power of the Holy Spirit. How does that power work and how do you get that into your own life? Don?t leave for ministry until you get this one down. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mission Pharmacy for Short Term Teams | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sustainability by Medical & Public Health Capacity Building | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neighborhood Transformation Panel | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Q&A on Therapy Missions | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What are the Different Foundations for Healthcare & Medicine | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maternal Mortality A Key Battle | A session to familiarize the missionary physician with the Millennium Development Goals and their implications for life issues internationally. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transferring Skills and knowledge on Short Term Trips | Spiritual Survival Tips for Short-Term Medical Missions Team | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Allocation of Limited Resources in the Mission Field | Medical missionaries will find their resources to help others limited in nearly every realm of their work-time, skills, financial, emotional, equipment and spiritual to name a few. We know what care is available to patients and come skilled to provide it. But many times we are unable to provide it due to limitations of many kinds on the field. How does one decide what care to provide and whom to provide it to? This talk will discuss the conflicts the medical missionary finds on the mission field as they serve to provide health care in less than optimal circumstances. Using Jesus healing ministry as an example, guidelines will be provided on how to effectively serve Christ in situations where care cannot be given to all as the medical missionary would like. A foundation in decision making and practical guidelines w!ill be discussed to assist the front line missionary with these problems on the field. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Healthcare Management for Doctors, Nurses and Other Dumbies | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PLENARY SESSION: Being a Real Disciple | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Plastic Surjery in the Jungle | Describes how God can use reconstructive surgery to remove guilt, fear of a curse or evil spirits in many parts of our world. Those with severe congenital and acquired deformities often feel rejected by God and live isolated from their neighbors. Reconstructive surgery often bridges the gulf to God and gives evidence that God does love them. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Empowering Nationals to Develop Culture-Specific Strategies for HIV Prevention & Ministry | In this interactive session we will discuss what makes HIV prevention and ministry effective, the importance of the active involvement of the church in HIV and why it is essential to tailor strategies to local culture. The session will be based on the experience of the facilitator in HIV prevention (since 1985) and in empowering nationals to develop their own unique approaches to and tools for HIV minsitry around the world. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ABCs of Missions | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stories from Steve Saint | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Disaster Relief: Preparing to Respond | Learn what preparation is needed now to be ready to assist after disasters and serve as a dynamic agent of God's love for the world. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Q&A on Dental Missions | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women in Missions: Reaching the Unreached | Women globally have difficulties and challenges that can often only be addressed by other women. This session will discuss the specialized and imperative role of women on the mission field and will also address the increasing roles of single women in many of these roles. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Empowerment vs. Dependency | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cardiac Fitness of Residents: The Spiritual Benefits and Challenges of Marriages in Residency | This will be combined lecture and discussion on the spiritual, emotional, and personal challenges of physician training. Two married physicians will discuss the challenges and opportunities that face medical students, residents, and their spouses. [this will be an evolution of the presentation I gave at the 2008 Conference entitled Post-Graduate Medical Education and Faith. It is different in that my wife will present, and able to discuss women's issues. We will tinker with the material based on the questions I received during the session as well as the people I spoke with afterwards.] | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Update on Malaria Treatment Guidelines | Malaria control requires an integrated approach with an emphasis on prevention and prompt treatment with effective antimalarials. This presentation will review some of the key points of the WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria and the key elements of the Global Malaria Action Plan. Key interventions to control malaria include: prompt and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies; use of insecticidal nets by people at risk; and indoor residual spraying with insecticide to control the vector mosquitoes | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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JAMKHED model | The Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), Jamkhed, India, has been a pioneer in developing sustainable comprehensive community-based primary health care (CC-BPHC) since 1970, which has empowered communities to address their own health problems and development. Villages are transformed into caring and sharing communities, working together to improve the health of the whole community, especially poor, marginalized and women. Over the years it has continued to be innovative in its work in various aspects of health, now including non-communicable conditions and mental health, as well as various aspects of development. The program is based on the building capacity of communities, especially through village health workers, and dealing with root causes (social determinants of health). Its principles are equity, integration and empowerment. The Jamkhed Institute shares this experience with people from all over the world, training leadership in CC-BPHC. Its experience influenced the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care by WHO/UNICEF in 1978, which is currently being revitalized by WHO and others worldwide. The session will describe the philosophy, principles and practice developed by the CRHP staff and villagers of the Jamkhed area, and discuss the effectiveness and sustainability of this approach, which has been shared with people all over the world, including religious organizations. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 10/40 Window Via the 240 Window | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Human Trafficking, Health & "M" | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drug Diversion: How It Hurts All of Us | Drug diversion, counterfiting and unethical drugs are not just a major problem in developing nations. This problem has now come home to the USA and affects or potentially could affect any person here as well as those abroad. This workshop will first focus on the magnitude of the problem. New regulations that will be enforced wichin the US will be briefly outlined. Finally there will be a presentation of various means to limit or eliminate this problem. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Integrating Primary Health Care & Community Health Evangelism | Curative primary care is essential for at least 30% of our patient healthcare problems, and we must continue our efforts to provide and teach high quality curative services. However, if we wish to provide high quality, evidence-based care for the remaining 70%, integration of community health with primary care is essential- especially on the missions field. The integration of primary care and community health was one of the main themes of the 2008 WHO World Health Report which was devoted entirely to Primary Care: http://www.who.int/whr/2008/en/index.html This integration is also being promoted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the AMA for physicians in our country: Roadmaps for Clinical Practice. A Primer on Population-Based Medicine.-See AMA website: http://www.ama-assn.org/ The following will demonstrate how an evidence-based holistic health education program can be used to integrate primary care and community health evangelism at all levels of the WHO health care pyramid (Hospital, Clinic/Health Center, and Family/Community), in both rural and urban areas, and in developed as well as developing countries. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mid-level providers: the future of medical missions | 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 providers. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Does God Say About Community Health? | This session will address three questions: What are the cultural origins of health-related behavior? How can we help people and communities change health-related behavior through changes in the cultural origins of their behavior? How does community health promote the spiritual being of the people? | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PLENARY SESSION: What are the Different Foundations for Healthcare and Medicine | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Improving Medical Care by Improving Medical Teaching | There is a great shortage of well-trained health care workers. Healthcare education in many nations does not effectively prepare students to be able to work independently upon graduation. These nations focus on use of the lecture method, rather than methods which facilitate adult learning. Realizing this is a problem, nations are increasingly requesting training in how to teach effectively. This session will outline more effective, interactive methods to use in teaching adults to enable them learn more effectively, retain what is taught and be able to put what they have learned into practice. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wholistic Health and Self-empowerment in Latin America - a Christian Perspective | 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 developing and refining a comprehensive approach which sees health as simultaneously a gift from God and a right/responsibility of each person and of society. Health is a journey manifested in a dynamic process of self-empowered families & communities gaining control over an integrated web of health determinants that enables them the construction meaningful and sustainable families and society. The workshop presents a ?10/40/60 comprehensive model? that allows communities organizations, churches and government to invest resources and energies on three type of efforts: ?Curative interventions?/?Preventive care?/?Building healthy environments, healthy behaviors & healthy policies?. Self-empowerment process in families & communities allows to gain control over their personal and social health determinants. The traditional goal of ?Health for All? needs a new approach of ?All for Health? in which the ?priesthood of the believers? can be embodied constructing healthy environments, healthy behaviors and healthy policies that allow nurturing and sustainable conditions for the coming generations. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Missions Medicine and Academic Medicine: An Unlikely Marriage? | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Teaching Techniques For Empowering Local Personnel | Spiritual Survival Tips for Short-Term Medical Missions Team | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PLENARY SESSION: Take the Hill | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ABCs of Appropriate Medical Equipment for Mission Hospitals & Clinics | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Practices for Effective Health Missions | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fostering Health System Development Through Short-term Missions | 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 grasp; but it does exist and in a much more real way than most of us care to acknowledge. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stories for Dinnertime | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Health Trends | This presentation will cover major threats to global health, including current and emerging infectious diseases. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why do So Many New Missionaries Wash Out? | Work among the poor in the US is remarkably good preparation for healthcare workers interested in serving overseas. This session will demonstrate how work in the inner-city of Memphis TN has prepared many missionaries for the toughest fields on earth--and how this model could be employed all over the U.S. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Building Strategic Partnerships for Effective Resource Utilization | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Q & A: Stories from the Front Lines | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to be a Medical Missionary in spite of your Educational Loans | 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 | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dentistry 101 for the Non-Dentist | There are not enough dental professionals on the mission field and time and time again I have been asked, "What should I do and what can I do to help those in an emergency situation?" Dental needs and emergencies are ubiquitous on the mission field and often a non-dentist is the only one to care for them. Our time together will give you some important insights and guidelines to care for those in great need without hope and without help. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Q&A Becoming a Medical Missionary | Panel Q&A Becoming a Medical Missionary with two missionary docs and two missionary nurses. This session will share answers to how to become a medical missionary. Each person who attends will receive a 3 x 5 card when they enter the room. The moderator will group and select questions, directs them to appropriate panelists, and receive questions from the floor. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Responding to the Spiritual and Emotional Health Needs of Disaster Victims | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Role of the Church in Cross Cultural Medical Missions | Cross cultural Medical missions can be participatory and reap the benefits of integrated ministry, sustainability, empowerment, phase out. What role can the local church play? What are the advantages. How can that be employed? Cases where it has worked. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whole Person Care | This session will explore how to prepare to minister to the vast spiritual and emotional needs of disaster victims. Information will be shared on how to prepare yourself and your team to work in such devastating emotional conditions. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Newest Antiretroviral Agents: Their Role in Therapy | Twenty-five antiretroviral agents have been marketed in the United States for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection/AIDS. The classification of these agents is reviewed and the properties of the five newest antiretroviral agents are discussed in detail. The specific indications for which the use of the new agents is recommended are identified, as are the risks and limitations of their use. The advantages and disadvantages of the new agents are considered in the context of comparisons with previously marketed antiretroviral agents. A rating (on a scale of 1 to 5) for each of the new drugs is provided based on an evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PLENARY SESSION: Florence Muindi | -- | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Role of Empowerment in Health Development | Many people involved in health outreach in developing nations realize that sustainable improvement requires that the local community be empowered rather than be seen as passive recipients of aid. But there is no clear and commonly held definition of empowerment. What does it mean? How, if at all, can it be measured? What does it take to create empowerment? MAP International and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University are engaged in research on that topic. In addition to a thorough literature review, they have surveyed 49 global NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and faith-based organizations to learn from their thinking and experience. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Missionary Life - Is It For You? | This session answers the 10 basic questions most often asked by those considering career missionary service. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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HIV/AIDS Case Studies 2009 | Despite the declining AIDS death rate and lessening HIV prevalence in many African countries, HIV/AIDS remains a tremendous challenge with medical, emotional, economic and social problems. Using case presentations and an interac- tive format, this workshop will explore HIV/AIDS care and treatment issues particularly from the speaker's experience in Africa.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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Can't I Trust new Christians with the Money? | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suffering & Evil in the Eastern Worldview - A simplified approach for the western mind | Unfortunately, these case presentations demonstrate how many short-term medical missions work against the health development process. The traditional medical mission model often diminishes confidence in the local health system. It can also adversely affect local health care providers economically and subvert their place of authority in the community. Short-term medical missions need to be cognoscente of these potential effects in order to utilize mission models that minimize or eliminate them. By working with local providers to facilitate health programs, and utilizing WHO standards and guidelines to facilitate the health development process. Working alongside local providers allows them to set the priorities demonstrate respect and promote community confidence in their knowledge and abilities. 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TB DOTS Treatment in Afghanistan | 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 | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carpe Diem: Primary Health Care, Faith Based Organizations, and Current Worldwide Opportunities | 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. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 167 Episodes |
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