The Point of Medicine

Healthcare Missions

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Discovering the God who Can and who Cares

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 9, 2025
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The CMDA Student Pulse Podcast
The CMDA Student Pulse Podcast
Discovering the God who Can and who Cares
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Host Bill Reichart talks to Dan Flynn, CMDA Indianapolis Area Director in studio about the character of God and much more.

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Can I Do Missions If I Can’t Go?

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 25, 2025
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The CMDA Student Pulse Podcast
The CMDA Student Pulse Podcast
Can I Do Missions If I Can't Go?
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Host Bill Reichart talks to Dr. Tram Jones about a calling to missions and medicine in Haiti and how the unrest has reset his service abroad.

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The Art of Medicine: Finding the Deeper—Stories of the Unseen

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | May 7, 2025
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“Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:11-13, NLT).

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Seeing the Lord’s Beauty

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 9, 2025
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“Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:11-13, NLT).

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USAID in Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities for Global Healthcare

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 20, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
USAID in Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities for Global Healthcare
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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.

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Walking Ancient Roads with Christian Healthcare Professionals

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 13, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Walking Ancient Roads with Christian Healthcare Professionals
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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.

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Standing for Life and for Women

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 6, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Standing for Life and for Women
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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.

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Recognizing the Red Flags of Human Trafficking

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 30, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Recognizing the Red Flags of Human Trafficking
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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.

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Wake up, O House of Medicine! Part 2

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 23, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Wake up, O House of Medicine! Part 2
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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.

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Wake Up, O House of Medicine! Part 1

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 16, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Wake Up, O House of Medicine! Part 1
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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.

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Adam and Eve After the Pill

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 9, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Adam and Eve After the Pill
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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.

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To Change All Worlds

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 2, 2025
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
To Change All Worlds
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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.     

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The Impact of CMDA in 2024

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | December 26, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
The Impact of CMDA in 2024
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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.

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God, Teach Me About Mercy

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | December 19, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
God, Teach Me About Mercy
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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.  

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Saline Process Witness Training

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | December 12, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Saline Process Witness Training
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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.

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A Call for Servant Leaders

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | December 5, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
A Call for Servant Leaders
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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.

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Thankfulness in the Storm

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 27, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Thankfulness in the Storm
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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.

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Contraception and the Church

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 21, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Contraception and the Church
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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.”

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Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 14, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life
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Well-known financial advisor and author David Bahnsen talks about his new book, Full-Time: Working and the Meaning of Life.

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Willing to Do Whatever It Takes

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | November 7, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Willing to Do Whatever It Takes
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Dr. Francis Nuthalapaty discusses how CMDA has impacted his career as he follows Christ’s leading in healthcare.

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Introducing ConsultBridge

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 31, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
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Dr. Jeff Lee and Dr. Hau Liu discuss the new ConsultBridge platform, a telehealth platform to support healthcare professionals who are serving overseas.

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Moral Diversity in Healthcare Training

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 24, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
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On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Ben Frush discusses the importance of moral diversity in healthcare training.

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Faithfully Serving and Impacting Cuba

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 18, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
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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. 

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Cameo of Courage featuring Vanessa Sivadge

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 10, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Cameo of Courage featuring Vanessa Sivadge
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Dr. Mike Chupp talks with pediatric nurse Vanessa Sivadge to share how she courageously stepped out in faith to protect vulnerable children in Texas.

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Untidy Suffering

Untidy Suffering

By Ruth Lindberg | October 3, 2024
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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.

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Embracing Suffering as Part of Our Calling: Submitting Our Circumstances to His Will

Embracing Suffering

By Dr K | October 3, 2024
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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.

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The Dunamis Effect on Addiction

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 3, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
The Dunamis Effect on Addiction
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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.  

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Flourishing through the Great Commission

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 26, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
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Dr. Paul Hudson talks about his new book entitled Healthcare and the Mission of God: Finding Joy in the Crucible.

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Joyfully Walking By Faith

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 19, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Joyfully Walking By Faith
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Dr. Julie Rosá, a family medicine physician, is the new Association Director of Medical Education International, a short-term teaching missions ministry within CMDA.

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Mental Health and the Church

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 12, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Mental Health and the Church
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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.

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The Value of Community to Servants of Christ

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | September 5, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
The Value of Community to Servants of Christ
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Drs. Gloria and Paul Halverson talk about how impactful CMDA has been in their lives as Christians in healthcare.

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100% Committed to the King

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 29, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
100% Committed to the King
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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.

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Walking in His Footsteps

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 22, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Walking in His Footsteps
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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.

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2024 Missionaries of the Year

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 15, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
2024 Missionaries of the Year
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Dr. Brad and Naomi Quist, who are career healthcare missionaries, were recognized as CMDA’s 2024 Missionaries of the Year.

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Calling and Discernment

By Ann Thyle, MD | August 14, 2024
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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.

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Using Teeth Bleaching for God’s Glory

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 8, 2024
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Using Teeth Bleaching for God’s Glory
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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.

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A Conversation with CMDA’s VP of Missions

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 15, 2023
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Let's Go, GHO!
Let's Go, GHO!
A Conversation with CMDA's VP of Missions
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Rev. Bert Jones shares about his role as Vice President of Missions and Member Care at CMDA.

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Dental Missions in GHO

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 15, 2023
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Let's Go, GHO!
Let's Go, GHO!
Dental Missions in GHO
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Dr. Bill Griffin shares about the exciting opportunities for dentists to use their skills on GHO mission trips.

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A Heart for Africa

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 12, 2023
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Let's Go, GHO!
Let's Go, GHO!
A Heart for Africa
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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.

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Scholarship | MAP International Health Fellowship

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 7, 2023

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.

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The Situation in Canada

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 25, 2022
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
The Situation in Canada
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Dr. Margaret Cottle talks about the current situation in Canada with assisted suicide and medical termination on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast

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CODE YOU

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 18, 2022
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
CODE YOU
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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.

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Ripple Effects in Africa

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 11, 2022
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Ripple Effects in Africa
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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.

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God Sightings

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | July 21, 2022
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
God Sightings
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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.

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Streamlining GHO

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | June 22, 2022
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Let's Go, GHO!
Let's Go, GHO!
Streamlining GHO
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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.

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First Fruits and Capstone

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | February 21, 2022
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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.

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Global Missions Health Conference

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | October 7, 2021
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Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
Global Missions Health Conference
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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.

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A Strategic Plan to Succeed

By Mike Chupp, MD | September 8, 2021
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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.

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Serving in the Midst of COVID

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | August 17, 2021
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Let's Go, GHO!
Let's Go, GHO!
Serving in the Midst of COVID
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Trish Burgess, MD discusses with various team leaders the changes involved with GHO Teams going out to serve…

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Bridging the Language Barrier

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 24, 2021
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Let's Go, GHO!
Let's Go, GHO!
Bridging the Language Barrier
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Thomas Tet shares what it is like to work as a translator on a GHO Mission trip and…

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Scholarship | Project Hope Northwest Trip Grant

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

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