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Top 3 Estate Plan Sticking Points (And How to Get Un-Stuck)

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 5, 2021

Most people understand the importance and power of having a completed will or trust in place. Through your will, you can provide for the needs of your loved ones and give meaningful support to CMDA and the other causes close to your heart.

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The Cure for Your Real Estate Headaches

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | May 26, 2021

Reduce Taxes and Burdens by Giving Property. Sometimes the cost and hassle of owning real estate outweighs the benefits your property once offered.
Can you relate to any of these ownership headaches?

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The Return of the God Hypothesis

By Steven Willing, MD | April 15, 2021

In last Saturday’s New York Times, Christian columnist Ross Douthat asks, “Can the Meritocracy Find God?”

“The secularization of America probably won’t reverse unless the intelligentsia gets religion,” writes Douthat. Nor is he sanguine for the prospects of that occurring. Douthat postulates two primary obstacles. First, “a moral vision that regards emancipated, self-directed choice as essential to human freedom and the good life.” Second, an entrenched anti-supernaturalism: “The average Ivy League professor, management consultant or Google engineer is not necessarily a strict materialist, but they have all been trained in a kind of scientism, which regards strong religious belief as fundamentally anti-rational, miracles as superstition, the idea of a personal God as so much wishful thinking.”

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The Incredible Impact of a Humble Man of Faith

By Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics) | April 8, 2021

In a previous blog, I recommended John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center, and BreakPoint, his daily blog. The Colson Center has several formats for outreach including the Colson Fellow program, weekly podcasts, daily email briefings and Wilberforce Weekend. The Colson Center takes on many of the most pressing issues of the day and thoughtfully discusses ways in which we as Christians can engage our culture. As I said in that earlier blog, if you stop reading this right now and explore the Colson Center options, I will have succeeded in pointing you to a good path for improving your Christian walk.

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Upside-Down-and-Backwards: Reflection and Challenge on Inauguration Day

By Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA | January 21, 2021

My grandfather was a deeply gracious man. A Southern gentleman to the core and pastor of a large church, he was loving and compassionate toward everyone he met, and he was also uniquely talented at making each and every person with whom he interacted feel loved and heard. He truly cared, and he had an amazing ability to communicate the depth of that concern. In the 40 years I knew him, I never heard him raise his voice or speak a harsh word, with one dramatic exception. So it’s no surprise that the story of Granddaddy, hospitalized and delirious after major surgery, raising his voice at Gran has gone down in family lore. His agitation at her that day was so great, and so perplexing. He was intensely frustrated with her driving, despite the fact that he been in the hospital and nowhere near a car for days. He finally burst out, in his resonant Southern voice, “You insist on driving upside down and backwards just to irritate me!” Needless to say, it did not ease his distress when the entire family burst into laughter. But some things are just so funny you can’t control yourself.

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Be Prepared. Not Scared.

By Tim Lawton, MD, MS (Human Nutrition), FAAFP | April 14, 2020

As a board-certified family physician and hospital medical director with over 25 years experience in emergency, hospital and nutritional medicine, I want to encourage you to do everything you can to stay as healthy as possible during this devastating epidemic.

As the U.S., state and local governments and healthcare professionals labor tirelessly in compassionate and effective efforts to protect American citizens from the spreading COVID-19 Coronavirus, governments in certain countries instead are reportedly exposing persecuted religious groups to the threat.

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Protecting our Healthcare Conscience Freedoms

Pushing, Pulling and the Tension in Between

By Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA | March 16, 2023

Just today in a text exchange about job hunting, a CMDA friend reminded several of us that God can lead us in a variety of ways. Many times, God calls us, or pulls us, into the roles He has for us. We feel clearly instructed, and we feel certain we are following His leading as we step into a new chapter, be it a job or school or church or a new family decision. As American Christians, we are used to thinking about decision-making this way, I think. We feel that we must not know the right thing to do if we don’t feel pulled to one of the options. We pray for clarity, and we seek advice because we want that sense of calling, of being pulled in the direction God would have us to go.

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The Document You Can’t Afford to Ignore

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 22, 2022

If you are among the majority of Americans without a will or trust, chances are good that at least one of two “costs” have gotten in the way: time and money.

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Writing a Spiritual Love Letter

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 15, 2023

A spiritual love letter may be one of the most meaningful gifts you can leave to your family and friends.

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Becoming Patients Ourselves

By Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA | July 20, 2023

How and when did we become cynical and emotionally unengaged with our patients? And what can any of us do to fix it?

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When You Can’t Agree on an Estate Plan

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 15, 2023

What a wonderful miracle marriage is! God brings two different people – with unique personalities, experiences and opinions – and binds them together in a beautiful, holy union. 

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Not Progressive, Not Conservative, But Christian

By Amy Givler, MD | September 28, 2023

Whenever I hear the word “polarization,” I can’t help but think of cell division. Specifically? Anaphase, which perhaps you remember from high school biology. All the organelles have been doubled and are bunched at the edges—in moments it will split down the middle and become two cells.

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Pride Kills

By Steven Willing, MD | October 23, 2023

Pride deceives us in many ways. One of the more dangerous expressions is to overestimate our competence and skill. In high-risk situations, the consequences can be disastrous. Too often, greed is offered as a simplistic explanation. The truth runs much deeper.

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The 100th Birthday Party

By Amy Givler, MD | November 22, 2023

Permit me to humbly suggest the following: If you are ever invited to a 100th birthday party, consider attending. And if the centenarian is one of your dearly departed mother’s most treasured friends, do whatever you can to attend.

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Church Resources

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 3, 2020

Be an advocate for God’s Word and speak truth into today’s ethical issues. These resources will help you learn how to answer difficult questions with grace, kindness and truth.

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5 Smart & Powerful Reasons to Give from Your Will

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 11, 2024

Your completed will is both an important and powerful document. Through it, you can provide for your loved ones’ needs and transfer your God-given resources in a way that reflects your faith and values.

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3 Big Questions to Ask About Your Will

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | December 18, 2023

A completed will or trust provides a wonderful opportunity to honor God and provide for your family. Through it, you can also give in a meaningful way to CMDA and the other causes close to your heart.

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Speaker’s Bureau

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 13, 2018

Have you ever needed someone to speak to your CMDA group, to a church or community event? CMDA provides for your convenience, a list of some choices. Each speaker has expertise in a number of subjects.

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Dietz Scholarship

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | May 26, 2020

Margaret J. Dietz Scholarship – Provides financial assistance to support the Christian and professional leadership development of physicians and dentists in low and low-middle income countries and regions of the world.

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Broken Legs and Grenades

By Al Weir, MD | February 6, 2024

We can’t always hide from the huge cruelty of life. It’s always there, mixed in with the great wonder and joy of life—a brokenness seeping up up from the soil of our fallen world.

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Sophisticated Lies Endanger Everyone—Black, Brown, White and Other

By Nicole D. Hayes | March 4, 2024

Language can be cloak and dagger—particularly when that “old serpent” is speaking who is none other than Satan. He is the father of lies, as noted in John 8:44. He is the original liar. Adam and Eve experienced Satan’s craftiness firsthand when he asked Eve in Genesis 3:1, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” and then went on to lie and say to her in Genesis 3:4, “You will not certainly die” (NIV).

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CMDA’s The Point

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 15, 2018

A weekly blog keeping you updated on emerging topics relevant to today’s issues in healthcare written by CMDA’s staff and members. Perspectives and Opinions on Issues and News Topics is a publication of Christian Medical & Dental Associations®. Join the conversation with The Point, CMDA’s blog focusing on breaking news stories in bioethics and healthcare. CMDA’s experts contribute to the blog and also recommend additional resources and information.

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United Kingdom Closing the World’s Largest Pediatric Gender Clinic

By Andrè Van Mol, MD | August 25, 2022

The BBC broke a story July 28 headlined, “NHS to close Tavistock child gender identity clinic.” Following the Cass Interim Review determination that the current model of care “is not a safe or viable long-term option,” Britain’s National Health Service announced that their Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the world’s largest pediatric gender clinic, is to close by spring 2023. It is to be replaced with centers in London and North West with increased emphasis on mental healthcare and relevant general practitioner services.  Also noted was that the UK’s 20-fold increase in referrals over the last decade (250 then and 5,000 in 2021) had overwhelmed the capacity of the service.

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Understanding the Mifepristone District Court Ruling

By Steven A. Foley, MD | June 5, 2023

As an OB/Gyn, I would like to understand why the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) came out against the ruling in Texas by Judge Matthew Kaczmarek regarding Mifepristone in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine vs. FDA. ACOG says it is safe and effective in all their talking points, and it says that it is healthcare. According to Webster’s Dictionary, healthcare is “the maintaining and restoration of health by the treatment and prevention of disease especially by trained and licensed professions.”

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With Justice for All

By Amy Givler, MD | November 23, 2022

Let me introduce you to Aidah. She worked in our home (our “inside worker”) during the eight months our family lived in Kenya in 2003/2004. Don and I worked at Tenwek Mission Hospital as family physicians, and our three children attended elementary and middle school at nearby Rift Valley Academy. She helped me buy food and cook it, and she kept our house clean. Aidah was our backbone. She was a rock.

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Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 10, 2019

Autumn Dawn Eudaly Galbreath, MD, MBA is an internist in San Antonio, Texas, where she lives with her husband, David, and their three children. Though they met in medical school, David now owns a restaurant in the San Antonio area. Between the two of them, they have experienced multiple career transitions, and weathered the resultant stresses on their marriage and family.

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Your Body Will Be Whole: Meditations on Heaven

By Kathryn Butler, MD | November 9, 2022

During my surgical training, I helped care for an aging professor who bemoaned his declining health. His mind still moved in academic circles, pondering the high points of chemistry and physics, but arthritis had so fused the bones in his neck that he couldn’t nestle into a pillow anymore.

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Kenneth M. Dudley, MD

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 11, 2019

Kenneth Earl Dudley, MD teaches Ethics and Epidemiology at Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine as an associate professor. His PowerPoint presentations have been outreach events for medical and college students, or tailored to CMDA and church audiences. He has a BA in Bible-Theology from Moody Bible Institute, a BS in Biology and an MD from MSU. He has practiced as a board certified Family Physician since 1983.

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Harold Paul Adolph, MD

By Harold P. Adolph, MD, FACS | June 11, 2019

Harold Paul Adolph, MD, has devoted his professional career to volunteering and serving as a medical missionary. A graduate of Wheaton College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, he has been a board certified physician since 1965. Since that time, he has served as Chief of Surgery at various mission hospitals in Taiwan, Ethiopia, Liberia and Niger. For the past 10 years, he assisted in building a surgical training center in South Central Ethiopia as the president of St. Luke’s Health Care Foundation. An active member of CMDA, he previously served as a trustee of CMDA, and also received the CMDA Servant of Christ award in 2003. In 2007, he was inducted into the Medical Mission Hall of Fame, and was recently recognized as a Lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American College of General Surgery. He and his wife Bonnie Jo have two children, David and Carolyn, who also serve as career missionaries in Kenya and Ethiopia.

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Opioid and Substance Use Disorder Identification & Treatment

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 18, 2024

2023-2025
CE COURSE AVAILABLE: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 reauthorized major funding sources for substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services and included three bills intended to facilitate the integration of behavioral health and primary care.

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Contact CMDA

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 22, 2018

Are you interested in getting involved with CMDA? Or do you have a question about our ministry? We would love to hear from you! Our national offices are open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. We are here to help you and we look forward to hearing from you.

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Marriage Enrichment

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 24, 2018

The Marriage Enrichment Ministry was started by CMDA members who saw a need to minister to married healthcare professionals. This ministry provides four to six conferences per year to provide healthcare couples with an opportunity to nurture and grow in their marital relationships.

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Ethics Hotline

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 24, 2018

We are dedicated to serving as a Christian voice and a resource for our members on today’s bioethical issues. Have you encountered a difficult patient care decision at your hospital? Do you have a question about how to maintain Hippocratic traditions within your work as a healthcare professional?

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Standards4Life

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 28, 2018

Membership Donate Now Through CMDA’s Standards4Life, we offer you simple and succinct guides to help answer your biggest questions about healthcare issues. YOU can make the difference of life or death in issues such as abortion, stem cell research, and physician-assisted suicide by educating yourself and others. These guides are free for your use. You may incorporate the information into a Sunday school lesson, use…

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Chapel & Prayer

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 10, 2018

Come join us for chapel! Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, CMDA staff members gather for a time of worship and prayer, followed by a challenging message. We are pleased to make these chapel services available to you online via iTunes podcasting. If these messages are an encouragement to you, please feel free to share this resource with someone else.

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CMDA Go App

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 18, 2018

The CMDA Go App CMDA GO! Our mobile app is available for IOS and Android devices. Visit your app store to download today. Here are just a few of the current features you can take advantage of in the app: Set up your Preview text with your CMDA account information. Daily curated, relevant Preview text feeds. Membership Preview text and renewal options in the app.…

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Continuing Education

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 26, 2018

Through CMDA’s Department of Continuing Education, you can earn continuing medical and dental education credits at a variety of CMDA events around the country. The Christian Medical & Dental Associations® is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for healthcare providers.

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Member Search

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | December 17, 2018

Christian Healthcare Professional Search Find a CMDA Member Healthcare Professional Select an area of the map by typing a zip code, city, or state. You can zoom in on the map and select pins to look at practices and healthcare members in an area.  If you search for a specific professional by name, the results will display below the map. Be sure to check proper…

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Request an MEI Team

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 7, 2019

Medical Education International is a short-term missions program that provides academic teaching and clinical training while spreading the gospel to doctors and students in hard to reach countries.

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Fellowship of Christian Physician Assistants

FCPA – Leadership Requirements

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 17, 2019

Imagine having an entire army of peers to whom you could turn for advice, ideas and support, from a Biblical, Christian perspective. By joining CMDA, and as a member of the Physician Assistants section, you will become part of a network of fellow Christian PAs, students, residents, doctors and other healthcare professionals who all face similar professional and personal challenges as you.

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CAHM – Mission Rotation

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 8, 2021

A program designed to serve domestic and international healthcare missionaries in their work as well as aid in the recruitment and retention of career medical missionaries. CMM also assists students with scholarships and overseas rotations.

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CAHM – Newsletters

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 8, 2021

A program designed to serve domestic and international healthcare missionaries in their work as well as aid in the recruitment and retention of career medical missionaries. CMM also assists students with scholarships and overseas rotations.

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Center for Well-being

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 7, 2019

The CMDA Center for Well-being helps Christian healthcare professionals align with God, optimize well-being and maximize influence.

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CAHM Library

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 5, 2021

A program designed to serve domestic and international healthcare missionaries in their work as well as aid in the recruitment and retention of career medical missionaries. CMM also assists students with scholarships and overseas rotations.

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Membership Match Day

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 8, 2022

We’re praising the Lord with you that He has carried you through uncertain times to complete medical school. We at CMDA want you to know now, more than ever, we are praying for you and cheering you on! Now that you’ve graduated, we want to encourage you that you are NOT alone in your healthcare journey! CMDA is here to encourage and equip you to…

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CMDA Careers

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | May 31, 2018

Christian Medical & Dental Associations offers excellent employment opportunities in a professional Christian work environment. In 2003, a landmark study commissioned by Christianity Today and administered by the Best Christian Workplaces Institute recognized us as the best Christian place to work in its category!

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Our Leadership

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 16, 2018

The Board of Trustees is the governing body of CMDA. It is the final policy making body for all matters. The Board interprets and applies policies of the organization and establishes guidelines for the Chief Executive Officer and staff. It is responsible for the preparation of the annual budget with the Chief Executive Officer, supervises financial officers, and gives an accounting of the organization’s finances at the annual meeting of the House of Representatives.

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Center for Well-being | Mentoring | Training & Events

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 15, 2023

Who we are and what we do. The CMDA Center for Well-being helps Christian healthcare professionals align with God, optimize well-being and maximize influence.

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Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid

Viewpoint

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 1, 2023

Viewpoint Project with Dennis Quaid is created solely for viewing on Public Television stations across the US with the goal to provide innovative and unique content featuring the world’s most influential organizations and individuals. Unique educational content designed to inspire and illuminate. Portions of the project air on a myriad of networks such as CNN, Fox News and CNBC.

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Membership- Dental Match Day

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | May 11, 2023

We’re praising the Lord with you that He has carried you through uncertain times to complete dental school.  We at CMDA want you to know that now, more than ever, we are praying for you and cheering you on! Now that you’ve graduated, we want to encourage you that you are NOT alone in your healthcare journey!  CMDA is here to encourage and equip you…

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Advocacy

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 22, 2023

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed” (Proverbs 31:8-9, NLT).

That scriptural challenge is a driving factor for the work we do in advocacy here at CMDA. As one of the core aspects of CMDA’s ministry efforts, we are dedicated to serving as a Christian healthcare voice in the public, to the media and to the government. And we do that through our grassroots advocacy efforts on both state and federal levels as we stand together to bring the hope and healing of Christ to the world through advocacy.

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Membership Dues

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 22, 2023

One of the most common reasons healthcare professionals give for not joining or renewing their membership is that they do not have time to be involved. Membership does not obligate you to participate in any of the ministries of CMDA. These ministries are there when or if you need them, either serving you or serving others.

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2023 Year End

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | May 23, 2023

Developed by expert healthcare professionals, this new small group study is designed to ask difficult, thought-provoking questions as we seek the truth found in God’s Word about the ethical issues facing Christians today. This curriculum will help you courageously stand up for what’s morally right according to your beliefs.

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Commission on Human Trafficking

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 30, 2018

There are several types of human trafficking including forced labor, sex trafficking, forced child labor, bonded labor, involuntary domestic servitude, debt bondage among migrant laborers and child soldiers. Human trafficking occurs in every part of the world, from less developed countries to more developed countries. As such, it is a crime under U.S. and international law.

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Voice of Advocacy

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 30, 2024

As Christians in healthcare, we glorify God by serving as a voice for the vulnerable. And that voice is now being featured on a new podcast from CMDA. The Voice of Advocacy is a monthly podcast hosted by CMDA’s Senior Vice President of Bioethics Jeff Barrows, DO, MA (Ethics), and it features members of the Advocacy team and special guests. Listen to learn more about Advocacy’s grassroots efforts at the state and federal level, legal and legislative victories, plus learn how you can be involved in achieving justice for the vulnerable.

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Project Medsend Grant Scholarship

Scholarship | Project MedSend Grant

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 8, 2018

MedSend awards grants to repay student loans owed by healthcare professionals while they serve as healthcare missionaries in medically underserved areas of the world. Three times each year, the MedSend board reviews completed applications for healthcare professionals headed for career missionary service.

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Westra Short-Term Mission Scholarship Information

Scholarship | Westra Short Term Missions

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 7, 2018

The James S. Westra Memorial Fund was established in 1981. It provides scholarships for pre-health undergraduate students, healthcare students (including nursing and allied health), trainees, and young professionals to serve in healthcare missions.

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Scholarship | Hood Medical Mission Scholarship

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 10, 2022

The Tony Hood, MD and Claudia Hood Medical Mission Scholarship seeks to inspire fourth year medical students to experience healthcare missions throughout the world. By doing so, they are hopeful recipients will be inspired to continue a lifetime of involvement in long- or short-term medical missions.

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Dr. T. Bob and Janis Davis Dental Student Scholarship Fund

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 14, 2024

Dr. T. Bob and Janis Davis Dental Student Scholarship Fund

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GCDC

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 2, 2024

This inaugural Great Commission Dental Conference will feature over thirty presenters, speaking on a wide range of topics – short term mission trips, long term ministry, teaching trips, private practice ministry, community clinic involvement, missionary dental equipment, funding missionary activity, et cetera. There will be something for everyone at this meeting, including sweet fellowship with others of like mind from across the country and around the world. All dental personnel and students are invited to join us for this unique meeting of Christian dental professionals!

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Scholarship | Wayne & Vivian Day Mission’s Scholarship

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 16, 2024

To provide financial assistance for future medical, dental and other students to participate on their first Global Health Outreach short-term medical missions experience; enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental needs in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved and to train and mentor the next generation of missionaries in the name of Jesus.

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Greater New York City

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 16, 2020

CMDA Greater New York facilitates gatherings for students to fellowship with like minded peers and with Christian graduate professionals to build relationships that promote growth professionally and personally.

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Charlottesville

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 11, 2022

The Christian Medical Association at UVA exists to provide fellowship, encourage spiritual growth, and build authentic relationships both within the Christian community and the larger UVA medical community. Our desire is to serve and encourage both students and faculty and promote discussion on the intersection of faith and medicine. CMA is largely student-led and provides regular weekly meetings, Bible studies, and fellowship times. Other activities include an annual student retreat and occasional dinners with local physicians and residents.

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CAHM – Long-Term Service

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 9, 2021

A program designed to serve domestic and international healthcare missionaries in their work as well as aid in the recruitment and retention of career medical missionaries. CMM also assists students with scholarships and overseas rotations.

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Dental Membership Offer

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 12, 2020

CMDA’s Dental Ministries is dedicated to encouraging and supporting dentists in living out their Christian faith in their professional and personal lives. We are an outreach that encourages and supports dental professionals and students as they strive to integrate their Christian faith into all aspects of their lives, while providing opportunities for training and equipping.

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Richmond

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 3, 2019

CMDA Richmond facilitates gatherings for students to fellowship with likeminded peers and with Christian graduate professionals to build relationships that promote growth professionally and personally.

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Christian Academic Physicians & Scientists

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 11, 2019

We are a community of Christian academic physicians and scientists who are committed to helping one another discern and live up to our faith-based calling. We endeavor to transform our academic communities through faith, fellowship, and scholarship.

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Family Medicine

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 11, 2019

The mission of the CMDA Family Medicine Section is to motivate, educate and equip Christian Family Physicians and Family Medicine Residents to show the love and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ to our patients and their families, our colleagues, communities, and the world we called to serve in His name.

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Fellowship of Christian Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons (FCPRS)

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 25, 2018

The purpose of the Fellowship of Christian Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (FCPRS) is to encourage, educate and challenge members to engage in a deeper, more fulfilling walk with our Savior, equipping us to impact the lives of others with the gospel.

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Transformed Doctors, Transforming the World: Peter E. Dawson, DDS

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 22, 2020

“I have been richly blessed by God, and I have a burning desire to do what I can to bring His message to anyone who will listen.” —Peter E. Dawson, DDS

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Right of Conscience Resources

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 14, 2019

Right of Conscience Resources

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The Mountaintop

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 22, 2020

Burnout is the current buzzword in healthcare, the subject of endless articles and editorial commentaries. Fatigue, depersonalization and cynicism characterize this happiness-ruining and career-destroying disease, which has reached epidemic levels among healthcare professionals across the country.

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Transformed Doctors, Transforming the World: Featuring Drs. Joshua and Hannah Evans

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 18, 2019

: I became involved with CMDA during my second year of medical school. God was working in my life at that time through several events, and in CMDA I found a welcoming, loving, supporting group of friends who loved the Lord and encouraged me in my spiritual growth.

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Why Do I Believe?

By Al Weir, MD | June 6, 2023

My wife had put up with me for many years before I took her to Spain recently on our 50th wedding anniversary. Seville is an amazing town founded by the Phoenicians, developed by the Carthaginians and conquered by the Romans as a sea port in southern Spain before the river connecting it to the ocean silted out.

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He is or He Ain’t

By Al Weir, MD | July 18, 2023

“I greeted him in church, a father who had lost his daughter abruptly to cancer. I could not help but put my arms around him and tell him how sorry I was. Six pews down, I was surprised to see a friend who had missed church for months due to a prolonged illness that had stumped the specialists. She shared, “Two weeks ago, five of our Bible Study class came over, laid hands on me and prayed for me. I have been improving ever since.””

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What’s in an Age?

By Al Weir, MD | September 12, 2023

I was visiting a patient in the rehab center who had undergone a knee replacement. He was fine except for the slow pace of rehab. His wife was there, vivacious, energetic, appearing far younger than her stated age, which I will not share. I asked her how they had met.

 

“We actually met in church,” she shared. “You know, I am older than he. When we started dating, he wouldn’t tell me how old he was. I called the church office to find out, but they wouldn’t tell me either. By the time I found out he was five years younger, I was already in love, and the rest is history.”

What difference does age make anyway?

Quite a bit, actually…

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Contending as One

By Al Weir, MD | September 26, 2023

We were sitting at a small table in the cheap furniture section of the hospital employee dining room, my first chance to get to know her: a young, chief of in-patient psychiatry, mother of three small children, follower of Christ—me: an old guy, chief of oncology, 50 years married, grandfather of six, follower of Christ.

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Birthday Trip

By Al Weir, MD | October 12, 2023

The hospital notified me today that one of the residents I supervise had more than 600 “view alerts” on her computer that had not been addressed. Alerts contain critical labs, radiology results or notes from other physicians who need a response.

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My Way, Not Yours

By Al Weir, MD | November 7, 2023

I’ve been discouraged over my “effectiveness” for Christ recently. It seems that, though I love Him, I am not accomplishing the work for Him that I imagine. At 10 a.m. this morning I took a 15-minute break and kneeled in the hospital chapel, just asking for Him to do what He wanted with me for His service.

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A Song from the Heart

By Al Weir, MD | November 21, 2023

“He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him” (Psalm 40:3, NIV).

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MRI

By Al Weir, MD | November 28, 2023

“He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him” (Psalm 40:3, NIV).

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Boldness or Respect?

By Al Weir, MD | January 16, 2024

“Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold” (2 Corinthians 3:12, NIV).

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Eutychus

By Al Weir, MD | February 20, 2024

The battle between faith and science is a battle in people’s minds, not between two great opposing forces. In my discussion with her, she shared her faith in God and the spiritual. “I’ve seen spiritual healing,” she said. I then tried my best to lay out for her my understanding of the integration of faith and science in healing.

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The Squeeze

By Al Weir, MD | February 27, 2024

Is the juice worth the squeeze? This is a reasonable question to ask about following Christ, and Jesus encouraged His followers to do so.

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I Need to Do Better

By Al Weir, MD | March 5, 2024

He is one of our few remaining World War II heroes at 97—a retired pastor, still alert, able to walk with a cane, writing great stories about his life and sharing wisdom that only comes with experience.

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Gracefully Broken

By Al Weir, MD | March 26, 2024

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise” (Psalm 51:17, ESV).

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Great Commission Dental Conference

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 4, 2024

October 4-5, 2024
The Christian Dental Association, in conjunction with the Christian Dental Society, invites dental professionals across the country to join us for this unique event which will focus on proclaiming the love of Christ locally and internationally through dentistry.

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Mentoring With A Coach Approach (October)

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 3, 2024

October 3-31, 2024
This 2-Day Intensive introduces a framework that utilizes a “coach approach” to mentoring, with an emphasis on a reflective process that nurtures well-being.

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Mentoring With A Coach Approach (August)

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 3, 2024

August 23-24, 2024
This 2-Day Intensive introduces a framework that utilizes a “coach approach” to mentoring, with an emphasis on a reflective process that nurtures well-being.

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Mentoring With A Coach Approach (May)

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 20, 2024

May 31-June 1, 2024
This 2-Day Intensive introduces a framework that utilizes a “coach approach” to mentoring, with an emphasis on a reflective process that nurtures well-being.

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The Convergence 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 2, 2024

September 19-21, 2024
Join us as we integrate theological and medical perspectives on caring for those struggling with addiction.

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Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Ethics)

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 11, 2019

Dr. Jeffrey Barrows is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist who in 1999 joined the staff of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations to help administrate a medical education mission outreach called Medical Education International (MEI). While working with the Christian Medical Association, he was asked by the U.S. State Department in 2004 to research the health consequences of Human Trafficking. From 2005-2008, he compiled and submitted an annual report to the Director of the State Department’s -Office to Monitor & Combat Trafficking of Persons. This research resulted in the article Human Trafficking and the Healthcare Professional published in the May 2008 Southern Medical Journal.

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Allan Josephson, MD

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 10, 2019

Allan Josephson, MD, is Professor and Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Pediatrics with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

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Introducing CMDA’s Fresh New Logo and Simplified Membership Dues Structure

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 23, 2023

Bristol, Tenn.—October 23, 2023—Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA), which is the nation’s largest faith-based professional healthcare association, is excited to unveil its new logo and simplified dues structure. The new look was released today, and it is designed to represent the two distinct elements of CMDA’s vision, which is to bring the HOPE and HEALING of Christ to the world through healthcare professionals.

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Faith and Gratitude

By Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA | November 18, 2021

As I continue my series on faith and culture, Thanksgiving is right around the corner. But believe it or not, I didn’t choose this topic because of its appropriateness for Thanksgiving week. The topic has been close at hand in my own life of late, which has made me even more aware of its cultural applications.

By way of background, I must admit that I struggle to ask anyone to do anything for me. Asking a friend down the street to give my daughter a ride home from school is difficult and makes me think about what I need to do to even the playing field.

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