Episodes
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Developing Kingdom Professionals While Serving
The Kingdom Professional Model is a reflective tool that can be used to integrate faith, learning, and service. Come find out lessons learned using this model in cross-cultural settings. Listen to the stories of those who have experienced challenges, and new understanding of old lessons while...
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Emotional Healing Matters
Your emotional health matters as you join God in His work among the nations. Learn to apply biblical principles to experience emotional healing and minister to others. In this session you will walk away with 4 keys that will help you receive God's emotional healing.
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Engaging with North Korea: The past, present, and the future.
Outcomes: to see North Koreans as people made in the image of God (Gen 1:27); to be peacemakers (Mt 5:9); to love North Koreans as Jesus would (Mt 5:44). To see that healthcare is a strategic way of engaging with the people of DPRK.
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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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Modern day slavery myths, facts and stats: What's your next step in fighting human trafficking?
Although public awareness has increased in the last few years, there still exists common misconceptions that human trafficking only involves kidnapping or always leads to commercial sex exploitation. Today in every country there are men, women and children trapped in jobs into which they were...
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Motivating People to Change Their Health
Knowledge of good health practices often does not change health behaviors. This session will share proven ways to motivate people to change their health behaviors using non-financial incentives as demonstrated in a community health program that has changed the health of 1.2 million people. These...
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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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Of Snake Bites and Stretching the Scope of Practice at a Rural Mission Hospital
Medical missionaries are often called upon to provide care that is beyond the scope of their training and previous experience. This interactive case presentation looks at the realities of clinical decision-making in a critically ill snakebitten patient, and offers suggestions on how to navigate...
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Emergency Dental Diagnosis and Management for the Non-Dentist
This lecture will serve to enlighten/empower non-dentists with some basic diagnostic & treatment skills to manage dental emergencies in a non-dental setting.
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Cross-Cultural Communication in Medical Contexts
Understanding how values and communication styles differ across cultures is key to succeeding internationally. That’s why training in cross-cultural communication has become commonplace in the international business world. In this session, we’ll look at 6 dimensions of cross-cultural…
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The Emotional and Spiritual Impact of Disability
With nearly 1.3 billion disabled people in the world, we assume that the medical community focuses on physical health. But who is helping people with the emotional and spiritual impact of disability? In this session, we will explore the emotional and spiritual impact of disability and how the...
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How Compassion, Technology, and Innovation Empower Health Equity in Resource-Limited Contexts
Transforming healthcare delivery in resource-limited contexts around the world calls for compassionate, innovative solutions. Learn how The Luke Commission is bringing healthcare to the most isolated and underserved in Eswatini through a scalable model for advancing health equity.
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Cultural Distress and the Physiological Response
What is cultural distress? It is a negative response rooted in a cultural conflict where the patient lacks control over their situation. It results in more physiologic effects on the body resulting in allostatic overload. To prevent this, healthcare practitioners must use strategies such as...
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Faith and the Fight Against Human Trafficking - A Missions Journey
Develop an understanding of faith, its depth, the growth, and the journey from a mission standpoint and from a personal standpoint. Gain a revelation that God uses all our skills, if we are willing to surrender all to Him. Learn how faith works in the fight against human trafficking. Understand…
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Should I Pursue Domestic or International Medical Missions? Yes!
Fruitful domestic and international medical missions overlap in multiple ways. Both require cross-cultural skills, a willingness to work with limited resources, courage in the face of potentially dangerous situations, and possible disapproval from friends and family. Each is excellent preparation...
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Preparing for an International Clinical Experience: A Roadmap for Residents and Students
This session will provide an overview on how to choose and prepare for a clinical elective in an international setting.
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Artificial Intelligence: A Valuable Instrument in the Missionary's Toolkit
In this dynamic session, participants will begin to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can support missionary work. From content creation in fundraising to administrative support and research tools, AI can revolutionize how missionaries serve and connect. Learn about the practical benefits…
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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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The Training Years: A Student's Guide to a Missional Life
Residents and students learn from others about original motivation, long-haul stamina, pearls and pitfalls of living in community, debt, vision for one’s next step to the nations, and helping the needy now tensioned with investing in education to help others later.
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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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Demons, Dangers, and Detachments; 3 Fierce Enemies of Kingdom Preparation and Perseverance
Those who hope to honor God and advance Jesus' Kingdom face powerful opposition from spiritual, physical, and psychological enemies. Successful launching and long term fruitfulness depends on recognizing and, in dependence on the Holy Spirit, waging war against those enemies.
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Navigate the Moral Injury Risks to Healthcare Missionaries
Medical missionaries often feel powerful emotional burden from moral injury, and it is a leading cause of departure from the mission field. But we have learned proven methods of preventing and dealing with moral injury. Use God’s powerful methods to protect yourself and your team, and to grow in...
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Tropical Fever Evaluation
One of the most daunting clinical challenges: tropical fever
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Cultural Humility in Healthcare
As we see an increasing number of culturally diverse patients in our practices or on the mission field, we need to understand how culture influences healthcare including through our own biases. How can we develop an eye to see where a patient’s values and worldview may differ from our own? We…
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Cultural Humility in Healthcare
As we see an increasing number of culturally diverse patients in our practices or on the mission field, we need to understand how culture influences healthcare including through our own biases. How can we develop an eye to see where a patient’s values and worldview may differ from our own? We…
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A Holistic Model to Address Youth Substance Use and Addictions in rural Africa
We developed a holistic approach to educating and ministering to youth who are vulnerable to substance use in a rural Uganda community. This model both instructs and empowers youth and community leaders to address substance youth in themselves and their communities.
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Introducing a comprehensive value-based Christian Healthcare Management Course
Introduction to a new comprehensive health care management course which is values-based
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Pearls in Primary Care Psychopharmacology
Dive into decision support tools and management options for primary care mental health conditions that often stump the primary care clinician.
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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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Learning to Listen: A panel on finding God’s path for us
How do the lures of self-preservation and self-reliance block Kingdom work? A panel of providers, and a student minister share ways they live out the gospel through healthcare among those experiencing poverty. Though the world defines success by our bank account and possessions, living for Jesus...
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Supporting Global Health through Medical Education: Critical Care in Resource Limited Settings
Medical education has a potentially powerful role in global health. This breakout will explore some ways that medical education can not only support patient care but also augment research capacity building to better care for critically ill patients in resource-limited countries.
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Managing Diarrheal Diseases in Children in under-resourced Communities
Globally, diarrheal disease is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in children under five years, accounting for over half a million deaths annually. Diarrhea arises mostly from contaminated food and water sources. Worldwide 2.5 billion people lack proper sanitation, and 780 million lack...
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Real-Life Struggles with Medical Ethics at the Mission Hospital
Medical missionaries from Western industrialized nations frequently encounter ethically disturbing situations when providing care in the developing world. This may be due to generally-recognized ethical principles being largely influenced by Western realities, beliefs and values. Individuals in...
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Human Trafficking in Children and Youth
Trafficking in persons is one of the greatest violations against humankind. Human trafficking happens locally, nationally, and internationally; with all ages, ethnicities, socioeconomic levels and genders. While any person can be lured into exploitation, children have additional vulnerabilities…
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Raising Prayer and Financial Support; Thriving for a lifetime
Prayer support is just as vital as financial support. This session will explore how to thrive for a lifetime. You will need churches to send you, and a full and engaged prayer and financial support team.
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Caring for the Caregiver - A platform for the continuum of care for those in healthcare
Every day healthcare workers face a lot of stressful and emotionally challenging situations at work. Moreover the long drawn pandemic has had its impact on healthcare workers. Numerous deaths, making difficult choices due to resource constraints and overstretched days are some of the challenges...
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Navigating the Unique Obstacles of Raising Kids in the Mission Field
How do we serve in the mission field without losing our kids? Third Culture Kids or Missionary Kids live a unique life experience that at its best can form amazing faith and character and at its worst, disillusionment and unbelief. The session will address how we can try to parent well, while...
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Evidence Based Medicine
Evidence based medicine is emphasized worldwide. An important skill in the practice of evidence based health care is the ability to critically appraise the validity of published literature. This lecture will explore principles of evidence based medicine and critical appraisal of randomized...
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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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Making a mid-career move to full-time missions--barriers and solutions.
A panel of those who entered full time missions after age 50 will discuss how God overcame and is overcoming objections, difficulties and fears to place them in service. https://bit.ly/gmhc2022_bond_burgess_makingamidcareermove
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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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Securing Heart Surgery for Children in LMIC's
Globally, congenital heart disease (CHD) is prevalent in approximately 1.8 per 100 live births making it a substantial contributor to infant mortality. (Lancet Child Adolesc Health, 2020). This is especially true in LMIC's where access to diagnostic, therapeutic and corrective resources is…
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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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Grief Protocol: An approach to processing suffering as global healthcare workers
Grief Protocol: An Approach to Processing Suffering and Loss as Global Healthcare Workers https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7nmhonwddtk7cg/final%20grief%20protocol%20GMHC.pdf?dl=0
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Clinical Ethics 2022
Clinicians encounter many ethical issues in practice of medicine. This lecture first explores ethics from the perspective of seminal studies on normal human nature including incentives, social reciprocity and token effect. The lecture will then focus on the impact of this human nature on every…
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Overview of Leishmaniasis
Overview of leishmaniasis epidemiology, clinical presentation, and treatment options
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