Healthcare Missions Archives – Christian Medical & Dental Associations® (CMDA)

Scholarship | Wayne & Vivian Day Mission’s Scholarship

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.

A Conversation with CMDA’s VP of Missions

Rev. Bert Jones shares about his role as Vice President of Missions and Member Care at CMDA.

Dental Missions in GHO

Dr. Bill Griffin shares about the exciting opportunities for dentists to use their skills on GHO mission trips.

A 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.

Scholarship | 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.

The 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

CODE 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.

Ripple 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.

God 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.

Streamlining 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.

First 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Answering 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.

Revisiting 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.

Global 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.

A 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.

Serving 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Bridging 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | Project MedSend Grant

Project Medsend Grant Scholarship

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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | WPDC Mission Trips with GHO

In partnership with Global Health Outreach, 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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | Naomi Kim Medical Missions

Naomi Kim Medical Missions Scholarship Information

Grants for travel expenses for healthcare students (including nursing and allied health), trainees, and professionals serving in healthcare missions who are exploring and/or beginning medical service in East Asia with preference to those working with MSI Professional Services or OMF International.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | Tami Fisk Mission Travel Grant

Tami Fisk Mission Travel Grant Information

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.

Scholarship | 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.

Scholarship | James P. Owen Mission

James P. Owen Mission Scholarship Information

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.

Scholarship | Westra Short Term Missions

Westra Short-Term Mission Scholarship Information

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.