Episodes
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Malaria: An Update on Treatment
Malaria affects an estimated 300-600 million people a year around the world with around 2000 cases of malaria brought back to the US each year. This session will focus on the current treatment and symptom control of malaria around the world and in the US. Current research on prevention and…
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Finding Your Best Fit Mission Agency
In this session, attendees will be equipped to navigate the discernment process of identifying the best-fit sending agency for them.
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Travel Medicine, caring for venturing short-termers
This session focuses on caring for the short-term mission worker - pre-travel matters to be addressed, encountered challenges during travel and common scenarios of the returning worker.
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Navigating Health Care in Hostile Environments
Providing primary health care in a war zone presents some extraordinary challenges. This presentation delves into the complex world of healthcare delivery amid conflict and chaos.
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Assessing and Addressing the Spiritual Needs of Patients: How to Take a Spiritual History & More
Have you longed to integrate your Christian faith into your patient care—on the mission field abroad, in your work in the US, and during your training? Are you not sure how to do this in a caring, ethical, sensitive, and relevant manner? This “working” session will explore the ethical basis for...
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A Call to Serve
What is a call? How does a person know if God is calling them to mission service? Join in a discussion as these and other questions are addressed.
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A Sustainable Missional Model for Healthcare in Resource Limited Settings: Lessons from India
Low resource settings require much innovation and streamlining resources to meet set goals. With healthcare becoming more commercial and profit driven, missional healthcare in low resource settings faces many challenges. Sustainability is a big question with people finance , and equipment scarce...
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Mentoring in Medicine - Making It Matter
Mentors are instrumental in the professional and personal growth of healthcare professionals. However, mentoring relationships often fail to realize their full potential. Attendees will be encouraged and equipped to initiate mentoring relationships that provide both mentor and mentee with a...
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Responding to Gods Command and Commission
In this session, It will seek to help guide you on how to respond to God’s Command and Commission, The quest for discovering and following God’s will and purpose for one’s life is often an illusion to many children of the Living God, Many believers resorts to imitating others and or live a...
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"The Talk about . . . fundraising and MedSend's solution"
Are you comfortable asking people for money? Do you understand the critical areas you must address if you are going to ask people to invest in you? This session will give you an understanding of the basics in fundraising that is fundamental to anyone in ministry. You will learn 5 critical things...
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Biomedical Research and Faith-Based Healthcare
This session will consider case studies of biomedical research in mission contexts, derive best practices in biomedical research that enhance the work of mission institutions, and describe how to get involved in biomedical research in faith-based settings. Presentation Slides:...
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Treating severe pediatric malaria--practical priorities to save lives.
According to the WHO, in the African Region, about 473 000 children die from pneumonia, 300 000 from diarrhea, and a further 443 000 from malaria every year. Mortality in hospitalized cases of severe pediatric malaria is 9%-10%. Many efforts to prevention infection and improve nutrition so as to...
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God's Heart for the Nations - Why it Matters for All Health Care Practitioners
God painted His heart for the Nations throughout the pages of His Word, from Genesis to Revelation... If we live our lives, spend our money, eat/drink, exercise, pray, and practice medicine without catching this vision, we're missing out on the greatest masterpiece ever created! We create a false...
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Five Principles for Long-term impact on a Short-term trip
This session is for those interested in leaving a lasting impact in one's overseas involvement. Often, the impact lasts only as long as the team is on the ground. If you would like to discover one way to have a lasting impact without creating dependency, this session is for you....
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And Then the End Will Come
We live in the most amazing days since Jesus walked the earth. The global church is sprinting toward the finish line of the 2000-year Great Commission race, and by God’s grace, our generation may be the one to finish it. In this session, Douglas Cobb of The Finishing Fund will explain the global...
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Approach to Fever in the Tropics
A case-based, interactive review of how to diagnose and manage febrile patients in tropical settings https://bit.ly/gmhc2022_douglascollins_approachtofever https://bit.ly/gmhc2022_douglas_collins_approachtofever_handout_
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Our Current Missions Assignment (Expanded)
The missional landscape has changed. The recent global events, the shifting distribution of Christians, and the realities of what God is allowing; are presenting a whole new missional landscape. What then are the new structures, approaches, and strategies that are proving effective for missions…
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The Role of Nurses in Missions
We are all called to live missionally. It is the Lord's plan for all peoples to know of His glory. As nurses, we may have access to those who have never heard the Gospel. We can get behind closed doors working within communities, establish trust, pray with patients, and provide wholistic care....
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Our Current Missions Assignment
The missional landscape has changed. The recent global events, the shifting distribution of Christians, and the realities of what God is allowing; are presenting a whole new missional landscape. What then are the new structures, approaches, and strategies that are proving effective for missions…
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Finding Your Best-fit Sending Agency (The top 10 Questions to Ask)
In this session, you'll learn the most important questions to ask when considering a potential mission sending organization. Find your best fit by attending this seminar!
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Treatment of Worms and Other Parasitic Diseases
This session will be a quick review of common treatments for worms, Chagas disease, Human African Trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis which are all parasites more common outside of the United States. However with a recent increase in immigrants they are becoming more common in some parts of the...
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Language Learning - Should I? and How?
As a health care professional on the mission field, the task of language learning is both essential and complicated. We say that language learning is a high value and priority for ourselves as missionaries, and yet it often is the first thing to take a back seat in life and ministry. Why is that?...
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Introducing the Gospel to the Heart of the Muslim
How To Proclaim and Deliver the Content of The Gospel Message, Which is, The True Saving Knowledge of God in Christ, to The hearts and minds of the Muslims Everywhere, so they could be Saved, and in a way they could understand through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Malaria & the Missionary
In the past, malaria killed two out of three missionaries in certain locales. Depending on the prevalence of disease, the missionary must decide on how many layers of protection are needed. Strategies include sleeping under an insecticide-treated net, avoiding outside at dawn and dusk, screening...
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Being Single on the Mission Field: Panel Discussion
We will address the challenges and advantages of being single on the mission field.
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Incarnational Equipping: A New Training Model
Our residency and training programs prepare us for professional service. Might it make sense to give heightened attention to preparation for full time kingdom service following professional training? Join Rick, Lance, Kelsey, and Chad as together we explore the need and potential for a new...
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Vaccines
Vaccines aren't perfect, but they prevent a lot of disease and save a lot of lives. In this session, we will review vaccination as related to those who travel internationally and to those who live in resource-limited areas. We will discuss new advances in vaccination.
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Past, Present, and Future of Medical Missions
In view of a changing world context, what is the future of medical missions? Does the traditional mission hospital have a place in today's world? Where does medical missions fit into globalization and urbanization and increasing populations where there is high restriction on religion? What are...
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Fighting the Fear of Fundraising
Some mission experts estimate that up to 90% of young people who consider missions cease to pursue it because of various fears and obstacles, including the fear of fundraising. This session will help participants: 1. Identify various obstacles and fears relating to fundraising 2. Consider ways…
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How to Integrate your Profession with your Faith
Have you longed to integrate your Christian faith into your patient care – on the mission field abroad, in your work at home, and during your training? Not sure how to do this in a caring, ethical, sensitive, and relevant manner? This “working” session will explore the ethical basis for spiritual...
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Update on Tropical Diseases
In this session we will look at several clinical tropical diseases seen in nationals and expatriate travelers. Real clinical cases and research studies will be described as unknowns. The challenge will be to recognize various travel related illnesses and making a diagnosis. We will explore cases…
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Pioneering with Indigenous Leaders
Jericho Road is a Christian federally qualified community health center in Buffalo , NY that provides care to marginalized and vulnerable populations , including many refugees from over 80 nations. Since 2009 Jericho Road has followed some of their refugee friends back home to their countries of...
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Short Term Health Care Teams Collaborating with Indigenous Workers
Can short-term health care teams play a key role in indigenous Gospel movements? Come hear the incredible story of God’s indigenous-led movement in a corner of Asia and the important role that short-term teams played in its advancement. Join in a discussion of the dynamics of an effective...
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Case Study: 100 Churches Planted by Medical Workers
Strategic indigenous medical training to impact the Church Planting Movement and the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Missions As A Second Career
God's timeline is different for each of us. This session will look at the particular challenges and blessings of entering medical missions in "Round Two."
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Ethical Medicine in Short Term Trips
Ethical Medicine in Short Term Trips
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Suturing
Suturing
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Theology of Suffering
This session will look at the reality of suffering in this world and how to reorient our hearts and minds to face it well.
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Language Learning
Clear communication is essential in any effective healthcare environment. Working in another language adds a whole new layer of complexity to the communication process. Learning another language can seem like a daunting task, especially if you had a negative past experience with a foreign…
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Incorporating the Principles for Responsible and Impactful Missionary Work
“Service is the sign of true love. Those who love know how to serve others. We learn this especially in the family, where we become servants out of love for one another. In the heart of the family, no one is rejected; all have the same value.” – Pope Francis The money spent for missionary work to...
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Theology of Suffering
This session will look at the reality of suffering in this world and how to reorient our hearts and minds to face it well.
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Spiritual Interventions in Patient Care
About 25 years ago, while sharing an early morning cup of coffee with my dear friend and practice partner, family physician John Hartman, MD, he asked, “Walt, how come we don’t bring our faith to work with us more often?” It was a question the Lord used to convict me of the fact that although my...
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Leave Your Medical Skills Behind
A Partnership with long term missionaries, Indigenous evangelists and a short term medical training team in one of the most persecuted areas in the world brings light to the darkness.
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Spotlight on 15 Unreached People Groups
Spotlight on fifteen of the world's most un-evangelized people groups.
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I-Tec
As we consider the commission that Jesus gave his followers, while realizing that over 3,000,000,000 have never heard the name of Jesus, there is too much work to be done for us to not work together. While there are many ways we are different, we have One God, One Savior, One Spirit, One Body and...
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Medicine for Missions
Sourcing Safe Medicines for Missions
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Treatment of Malaria
Malaria affects an estimated 300-600 million people a year around the world with around 1500 cases of malaria brought back to the US each year. This session will focus on the current treatment and symptom control of malaria around the world and in the US. Current research on prevention and…
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Spiritual Assessment in Clinical Practice: An Evidence Based Approach
Health professionals in all settings should take a history from their patient(s). National guidelines in the U.S. recommend a spiritual assessment be included with most or all patients. Yet, surveys show that over 95% of patients say that no health professional has ever inquired of their…
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Short Term Medical Teams with Long Term Impact Part I
In recent years there has been a tsunami of healthcare volunteers going into the developing world; both faith-based and humanitarian. Recent estimates tell us that 29% of students enrolled in medical schools participate in some type of short-term global health project prior to graduation. Dental,...
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