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Your Faith & Healthcare - Connected

It is an unchanging foundation, the connection of your faith infused into healthcare in all of its facets. Be educated, encouraged, and equipped as a Christian healthcare professional to glorify God by following Christ, serving with excellence and compassion, caring for all people, and advancing Biblical principles impacting healthcare within the Church and throughout the world. This is what we do. Together.

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Who is CMDA? We are medical doctors, dentists, physician assistants, nurses, hospital executives, general practitioners, healthcare administrators, dermatologists, psychiatrists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, nurse practitioners, surgeons, anesthesiologists, internists, midwives, family practitioners, emergency physicians, pediatricians, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, endocrinologists, podiatrists, neurologists, nephrologists, oncologists, pulmonologists, rheumatologists, orthopedists, otolaryngologists, radiologists, and others representing all specialties in Christian professional healthcare.

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To help students and residents think deeply and biblically about the issues they face in their medical education; whether controversial, difficult, or worth celebrating. Join the conversation!

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CAN YOU SHARE YOUR FAITH IN HEALTHCARE?

A three-tiered curriculum designed to equip Christians in healthcare.

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Through this forum, we hope to educate, encourage, and equip healthcare professionals and the Church to practice and advocate for good medicine – that which is God-honoring and committed to the flourishing of the patient as an image bearer.

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Saline Process Witness Training

2026 Saline Process Training Events
Saline Process is a 10-hour course designed to equip healthcare professionals and students to be witnesses for Christ in their clinical settings. Many studies demonstrate the fact that a majority of patients want their healthcare professionals to consider their spiritual needs and desires. Yet many in healthcare are uncomfortable addressing their patients’ religious concerns. How can clinicians address both the physical and spiritual aspects of their patients?

2026 Midwest Fall Conference

September 25-27, 2026
At the Midwest Fall Conference, we strive to offer relevant, high-quality content for our attendees, as well as a time of worship, rest and fellowship. We consistently bring excellent speakers on timely topics, with several hours of free time on Saturday for our attendees to enjoy the grounds of the beautiful Maranatha Retreat Center.

Mentoring With A Coach Approach

September 25-26, 2026
This dynamic course, Mentoring with a Coach Approach, will equip you with innovative tools, resilience-building strategies, and a coaching mindset to transform mentoring relationships and inspire personal and professional growth.

501 Foundations in Coaching

September 29 – November 3, 2026
You’re invited to boost your communication skills, so needed in these challenging times in healthcare. This online, six-week, highly interactive coaching training will equip you to lead more effectively, assist colleagues with burnout, improve patient health outcomes and maximize the potential in others. Registration is open to all healthcare professionals, students, spouses and others who work with healthcare professionals.

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Your spiritual health matters.

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88% of advanced cancer patients reported that religion and spirituality are personally important in their illness.

Yet 47% said their spiritual needs were minimally or not at all supported by a religious community — and 72% said they were minimally or not at all supported by the medical system.

A patient lying in a hospital bed silently wondering whether God has abandoned them is measurably more likely to die.

Because rarely is anyone in the building trained to notice the spiritual need of the patients, a spiritual emergency is being treated as an unmeasured variable.

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Depression was strongly correlated with desire for hastened death among patients low in spiritual well-being.

Those same religiously-supported patients, when the medical team also provided spiritual support, the odds of hospice enrollment more than doubled, aggressive interventions dropped roughly 77%, and ICU deaths dropped 81%.

Advanced cancer patients with high positive religious coping were nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life-prolonging care in the last week of life

Those who coped having spiritual care also did less advance care planning — fewer DNR orders, living wills, and healthcare proxies — than patients who did not.