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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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Upcoming Conferences & Events >>>

Turkey Tour – Seven Churches of Revelation

May 22-30, 2027
Turkey combines Old and New Testaments in a unique way. Our hope is that you will join us as we visit these sites and trace the history of the earliest church. Also, there is an optional extension to Cappadocia from May 30-June 2!

2027 CMDA National Convention

April 29-May 2, 2027
Make plans now to join us, because there’s a seat for you at The Table. At The Table, we find rest for our weary souls. At The Table, we discover the fuel we need to recharge through our Savior’s presence. At The Table, we are nurtured and sustained in the midst of life’s trials. And at The Table, we set our eyes on our place of belonging.

Connections Conference 2027

June 7-9, 2027
Ministry was never meant to be done alone. A space built specifically for CMDA field staff, campus advisors, and local ministry leadersRefuel. Reconnect. Reignite.

2027 WPDC Annual Conference

September 16-19, 2027
Join us this September in Minneapolis for the 2027 WPDC Annual Conference—the premier gathering of the WPDC ministry and a weekend that female medical professionals from around the world call a don’t-miss event.

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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.