Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare Missions’
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.
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
MAP provides travel scholarships for up to $3,000 to healthcare students from any discipline who are planning to participate a in global health missions experience. Preference is given to those doing a trip or rotation that is at least 4 weeks in duration. For questions, please refer to the website or contact ballison@map.org.
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 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.
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
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 | 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.
Read MoreScholarship | Westra Short Term Missions
The James S. Westra Memorial Fund was established in 1981. It provides scholarships for healthcare students, trainees, and young professionals to serve in healthcare missions.
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