Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare Missions’
USAID in Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities for Global Healthcare
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Mike Chupp and Dr. Jeff Barrows are joined for two conversations with Echo VanderWal and Dr. Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst to discuss the challenges facing global healthcare given the recent government funding changes related to USAID.
Read MoreWalking Ancient Roads with Christian Healthcare Professionals
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Professor Mark Wilson talks about his work as founder and director of the Asia Minor Research Center and opportunities to participate in upcoming CMDA biblical tours.
Read MoreStanding for Life and for Women
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Catherine Wheeler, a board-certified OB/Gyn who was practicing abortions until God changed her heart, shares how God is now using her to speak truth in the public square and advocate for life.
Read MoreRecognizing the Red Flags of Human Trafficking
On this week’s episode, Dr. Sharmayne Brooks talks about CMDA’s Commission on Human Trafficking and how healthcare professionals can protect their vulnerable patients who are being held in modern-day slavery.
Read MoreWake up, O House of Medicine! Part 2
On this week’s episode, Dr. Michael Laidlaw shares the second part of his conversation about the courageous and critical role we have as healthcare professionals to protect children who are being impacted by the rise of gender issues in our culture and in healthcare.
Read MoreWake Up, O House of Medicine! Part 1
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Michael Laidlaw talks about his involvement as an expert witness for sensible legislation to stop the use of harmful hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries provided to minors for the purpose of gender transition.
Read MoreThe Long View: Lessons from Tenwek’s Community Health Program
Today, the Tenwek Community Health and Development (TCHD) program little resembles the original program begun 40 years ago. That is a good thing! The goals of the program haven’t changed, but the strategies certainly have evolved.
Read MoreAdam and Eve After the Pill
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Mary Eberstadt, a senior fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute, talks about several of her influential books, including Adam and Eve After the Pill.
Read MoreA Message of Hope and Health
When we decided to attempt a public health campaign for pediatric pedestrian safety, we opted for an emphasis on community and solidarity, believing these cultural values were more likely to anchor the message beyond one cycle of road traffic accidents.
Read MoreTo Change All Worlds
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Carl Trueman discusses his new book To Change All Worlds and how Christians can explore and respond to the topic of critical theory.
Read MoreThe Impact of CMDA in 2024
On this week’s CMDA Matters episode, Dr. Mike Chupp, Dr. George Gonzalez and George Courtney spend time reflecting back on God’s amazing work through CMDA in 2024.
Read MoreGod, Teach Me About Mercy
On this week’s Christmas episode of CMDA Matters, join Dr. Mike Chupp for a devotional as he shares his experiences on a Global Health Outreach trip to Guatemala.
Read MoreSaline Process Witness Training
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Mark Topazian and Dr. Gábor Győri talk about the new opportunities to participate in the Saline Process Witness Training.
Read MoreA Call for Servant Leaders
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. George Stubblefield and Larry Gilmore from Jessup University talk about a new faith-based master of healthcare administration program they’re developing in southern California.
Read MoreThankfulness in the Storm
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Ken Isaacs from Samaritan’s Purse is our guest for a special Thanksgiving episode thanking the Lord for His providence and protection in the midst of the destruction from Hurricane Helene.
Read MoreContraception and the Church
On this week’s episode Dr. Dennis Sullivan shares about an article he recently wrote entitled “Contraception and the Church: Making Sense of the Debate and Some Pastoral Advice.”
Read MoreFull-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life
Well-known financial advisor and author David Bahnsen talks about his new book, Full-Time: Working and the Meaning of Life.
Read MoreWilling to Do Whatever It Takes
Dr. Francis Nuthalapaty discusses how CMDA has impacted his career as he follows Christ’s leading in healthcare.
Read MoreIntroducing ConsultBridge
Dr. Jeff Lee and Dr. Hau Liu discuss the new ConsultBridge platform, a telehealth platform to support healthcare professionals who are serving overseas.
Read MoreMoral Diversity in Healthcare Training
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Ben Frush discusses the importance of moral diversity in healthcare training.
Read MoreFaithfully Serving and Impacting Cuba
Dr. Robert Lerer, a pediatric physician, discusses his work with CMDA’s Medical Education International in Cuba, the country he once fled as a teenager.
Read MoreCameo of Courage featuring Vanessa Sivadge
Dr. Mike Chupp talks with pediatric nurse Vanessa Sivadge to share how she courageously stepped out in faith to protect vulnerable children in Texas.
Read MoreUntidy Suffering
Just months before the end of our four-year term in Nepal, a young mother died at our hospital. Though our staff did nothing wrong and worked tirelessly to save her, those local leaders took advantage of the situation to foment hostility. Before we knew it, a volatile, angry mob was at our door, making demands and threats.
Read MoreEmbracing Suffering
I am a family medicine physician three years out of residency seeking to rejoice in what I am suffering for the sake of His body. I live with my husband and our three young children, with a fourth on the way, in a Central Asian country run by a terrorist group very much in need of the gospel.
Read MoreThe Dunamis Effect on Addiction
Dr. Don Middleton, one of the leaders of CMDA’s Addiction Medicine Section, shares his own personal journey through addiction and how God redeemed his life and his career after he surrendered to Christ.
Read MoreFlourishing through the Great Commission
Dr. Paul Hudson talks about his new book entitled Healthcare and the Mission of God: Finding Joy in the Crucible.
Read MoreJoyfully Walking By Faith
Dr. Julie Rosá, a family medicine physician, is the new Association Director of Medical Education International, a short-term teaching missions ministry within CMDA.
Read MoreMental Health and the Church
Dr. Stephen Grcevich, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, talks about mental health and the church, as well as how mental health relates to gender and identity.
Read MoreThe Value of Community to Servants of Christ
Drs. Gloria and Paul Halverson talk about how impactful CMDA has been in their lives as Christians in healthcare.
Read More100% Committed to the King
Rev. Will Graham shares an inspiring message about Hushai from the Old Testament in 2 Samuel and his pure and total obedience to God’s call.
Read MoreWalking in His Footsteps
Ambassador Morse Tan shares about his journey to walk in Christ’s footsteps through his work to advance justice and protect vulnerable people in our world.
Read More2024 Missionaries of the Year
Dr. Brad and Naomi Quist, who are career healthcare missionaries, were recognized as CMDA’s 2024 Missionaries of the Year.
Read MoreCalling and Discernment
The hospital lacked a blood bank, providing only refrigeration for limited-time storage in sterile glass bottles with rubber stoppers. The nearest blood bank, a three-hour round trip bus ride away, was too prolonged for emergency transfusions. Relatives routinely refused to be donors. They developed mysterious illnesses, or denied family affiliation, or simply ran away.
Read MoreUsing Teeth Bleaching for God’s Glory
Dr. Van B. Haywood, recipient of CMDA’s 2024 Educator of the Year Award, discusses using dentistry to bring the hope and healing of Christ to the world.
Read MoreScholarship | Wayne & Vivian Day Mission’s Scholarship
The Wayne & Vivian Day Scholarship is available to students and trainees participating in cross -cultural, short-term healthcare missions opportunities including GHO trips.
Read MoreA Conversation with CMDA’s VP of Missions
Rev. Bert Jones shares about his role as Vice President of Missions and Member Care at CMDA.
Read MoreDental Missions in GHO
Dr. Bill Griffin shares about the exciting opportunities for dentists to use their skills on GHO mission trips.
Read MoreA Heart for Africa
Hannah Jo is a dental hygienist practicing in New York. She shares about the opportunity to serve with GHO on her first medical and dental mission trip last year.
Read MoreScholarship | MAP International Health Fellowship
CMDA Scholarship applicants who are planning a healthcare missions elective that provides credit through their school or training program and is at least four weeks in duration will also be eligible to receive the CMDA-MAP International Global Health Mission Scholar Award. This will provide up to $3,000 in addition to the CMDA Scholarship. CMDA scholarship applicants who also qualify for consideration for the MAP award will be notified after their application is reviewed.
Read MoreThe Situation in Canada
Dr. Margaret Cottle talks about the current situation in Canada with assisted suicide and medical termination on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast
Read MoreCODE YOU
Phyllis Morton and Tamara Ramirez, two nurses who developed a continuing education course for nurses to overcome burnout, discuss their ministry on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreRipple Effects in Africa
Three dedicated cardiac surgeons from three different countries who now work at the busiest heart surgery program in the nation of Kenya at Tenwek Hospital are interviewed on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreGod Sightings
Dr. Trish Burgess talks about her new book God Sightings, a collection of stories of the best God sightings from GHO mission trips around the world on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreStreamlining GHO
Trish Burgess, MD introduces Alicia Trivett, the new GHO Program Coordinator and discusses how they are working to streamline the ways teams are sent to minister in the name of Jesus.
Read MoreFirst Fruits and Capstone
The healthcare mission field stands at an important crossroads. Around the world, opportunities abound for fruitful ministry through healthcare missions. Healthcare professionals are desperately needed, and they can serve in places non-medical missionaries can’t serve. All too often, needs and opportunities go unmet. The doors will not remain open forever. As health systems around the world modernize, healthcare missions and missionaries become less necessary in the eyes of the host community, and the missionary’s witness and scope of influence are curtailed significantly.
Read MoreScholarship | Good Samaritan Scholarship
To introduce diverse health care students to Christian medical missions allowing them to not only become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries, but also to obtain the skills to participate, in training and mentoring the next generation of missionaries in the name of Jesus.
Read MoreScholarship | Hood Medical Mission Scholarship
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.
Read MoreAnswering the Call: Launching of a CMDA Specialty Section
How the spiritual needs of an academic-based group of physicians and scientists inspired the founding of the Christian Academic Physicians and Scientists (CAPS), a specialty section of CMDA.
Read MoreRevisiting the Topic of COVID-19 Vaccines
Dr. Jeff Barrows joins Dr. Mike Chupp on today’s special edition of the CMDA Matters podcast to revisit the topic of COVID-19 and the safety, efficacy and ethics of the vaccines.
Read MoreGlobal Missions Health Conference
Will Rogers joins Dr. Mike Chupp and Dr. Doug Lindberg on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast to discuss the upcoming Global Missions Health Conference and the need for healthcare workers on the mission field.
Read MoreA Strategic Plan to Succeed
I had spent more than four years wishing and praying for a CT scanner at Tenwek Hospital, a 300-bed referral center in rural southwest Kenya where I was serving as a missionary surgeon in Africa. For years, every patient who came to us with a closed head injury, an abdominal mass or recurrent abdominal pain had to be referred to a larger hospital in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. But more often than not, patients wouldn’t or couldn’t go to Nairobi, regularly due to the high cost of travel and treatment.
Read MoreServing in the Midst of COVID
Trish Burgess, MD discusses with various team leaders the changes involved with GHO Teams going out to serve during the COVID pandemic.
Read MoreScholarship | Dale Willis Memorial GHO Scholarship
To assist selected dentists in participating in their first Global Health Outreach short-term medical missions experience, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.
Read MoreScholarship | Domestic Short Term Mission Scholarship
This scholarship seeks to encourage and enable students and residents to participate in mission rotations here in the United States, working with marginalized, underserved, and vulnerable populations in a Christian healthcare setting.
Read MoreScholarship | Minority Short Term Mission Scholarship
This scholarship seeks to encourage and enable non-white students and trainees to participate in mission rotations outside the United States.
Read MoreBridging the Language Barrier
Thomas Tet shares what it is like to work as a translator on a GHO Mission trip and the impact the trips have for the local people, both medically and spiritually.
Read MoreScholarship | Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation Medical Students & Resident Program
Do you have a passion for medicine and a calling to help those in need? Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation offers scholarships to qualified medical students and residents who have a strong interest in gaining valuable clinical experience while serving on an international or domestic Christian medical mission trip.
Read MoreScholarship | Project Hope Northwest Trip Grant
This fund is for the support of individuals who are exploring a commitment to the medical mission field or those already medical missionaries. Typical grantees include premedical or predental students who have made a commitment to the healing professions, medical or dental students who have a committed Christian faith or physicians in residency who are exploring the possibility of a short term or long term commitment to mission work.
Read MoreScholarship | Project MedSend Grant
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.
Read MoreScholarship | GHO Dermatology/Nursing Medical Missions
Assisting selected healthcare students in participating in their first Global Health Outreach short-term medical missions experience, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.
Read MoreScholarship | WPDC Mission Trips
WPDC women are invited to go on mission trips which offer participants an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of refugees, orphans and human trafficking victims around the world.
Read MoreScholarship | FCPA Mission Matching Grant
The Fellowship of Christian Physician Assistants seeks to encourage the sending forth of laborers Matthew 9:37-38 into the fields which are white with harvest. This fund was established to offer financial and prayer support to FCPA members who are called by the Lord to medical mission work around His world.
Read MoreScholarship | Naomi Kim Medical Missions
The Naomi Kim Scholarship assists selected healthcare students in participating in their first Global Health Outreach trip, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.
Read MoreScholarship | Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
Providing assistance to students who are going on mission both domestically and internationally to serve the healthcare needs of unserved or underserved people of the world with the intent to share the love of Christ.
Read MoreScholarship | Tami Fisk Mission Travel Grant
Grants for travel expenses of medically-trained individuals exploring and/or beginning medical service in East Asia with preference to those working with MSI Professional Services or OMF International.
Read MoreScholarship | Johnson Short-Term Mission
Encouraging MD/DO residents and fellows to serve the underserved cross-culturally and in doing so to seek the Lord’s will for their lifetime involvement in medical missions.
Read MoreScholarship | James P. Owen Mission
James P. Owen had a keen interest in missionary medicine. He died in 1981 while a senior medical student at Southwestern Medical School. The James P. Owen Memorial Endowment Fund was established by his wife in loving memory of her husband. Medical students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are eligible to apply.
Read MoreScholarship | Westra Short Term Missions
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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