Episodes
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Evidence Based Medicine
The principles of evidence-based medicine are essential for all clinicians to understand and be able to apply at the bedside. This breakout will explore how to assess the quality of randomized controlled clinical trials beyond reading the title and conclusion in the abstract.
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Controversies In Short-Term Healthcare Missions
How can popular short-term healthcare missions become more ethical, culturally relevant, and effective? This session emphasizes cooperation with national hosts to guide such service, plus the importance of continuity of commitment.
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Recruiting and leading new healthcare missionaries: insights from 585 healthcare survey respondents
In early 2025 the Launch Survey was sent to everyone on medicalmissions.com. The results identified the most significant factors that help and hinder those who may aspire to become goers for 1+ years up to long-term. The results include the most positive factors leading to international service,...
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Transformative Healing In Missions: Integrating Medical Practice and Long-Term Gospel Witness
This lecture delves into the integration of medical practice to provide a platform to advance the Gospel among unreached people groups. By intertwining the healing art of medicine with the principles of the Gospel, it highlights a holistic approach to medical missions. The talk also underscores…
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Top 10 Global Health Research Articles
We will review 10 high-impact global health research articles that can improve the care of patients while being cost effective
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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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Saying Yes to Hard Places: How to Discern God's Call
With a gazillion opportunities in medical missions, why say yes to a hard place? What factors — biblical, spiritual, strategic, personal — should influence what you do with your life, where you go, and why? Come learn how to count the cost, develop resilience, avoid places already served, and use...
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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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Creating a Curriculum from your Clinical Conundrum
In this session we will explore ways to identify educational needs based on clinical challenges and shortcomings, and discuss ways of creating educational curricular activities to meet these needs. The presenter will draw upon his experience creating emergency medicine curricula in Ethiopia to...
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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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Compassionate Care: Welcoming Refugees from all Nations
Description of how an FQHC in Memphis, TN partnered with resettlement organizations to provide domestic medical screenings and a medical home for those recently arrived. The vision and our clinic operations will be described as well as time to network and think about how any place of medical care...
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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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Ten things I wish I had known when I became an unlikely missionary doctor, wife and homeschool mama
Are you: - Interested in mission and wondering what it really means for you and your family, and if you have what it takes? - Curious to know how one may start and sustain a ministry in resource-limited settings in a foreign country from scratch with no money, no team, and no knowledge about far...
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Operating at the Margins: Surgical Care in Underserved Indigenous Communities
This seesion will give a brief overview the current state of surgical needs and care on the Navajo reservation. It will also discuss spiritual needs and opportunities.
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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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Risk It!
To become the person God wants you to be and to accomplish what God wants you to do, you must take risks. Risk is the fertilizer that grows your faith and bears spiritual fruit for God’s Kingdom. Are you willing to risk it?”
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Plenary Session 1, 2025: Thirty years of GMHC - Looking Back and Pressing Forward
The Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) had humble beginnings, but over the last three decades, it's grown into one of the most influential forces in international and domestic healthcare missions. Hundreds of Christian healthcare workers around the world began or altered their ministry...
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How to Use (and Not Abuse) Our Power as Healthcare Missionaries
The practice of healthcare is inherently powerful, and our patients are vulnerable to our power. Though power can be abused, the righteous use of power, for the benefit of the vulnerable, is profoundly Christlike. We will explore the lessons of power which help us understand our roles, including...
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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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Reimagining Mission to Least Reached Peoples
The concept of seeing the world as people groups is arguably the most significant thought innovation in twentieth century missiology. Yet almost 50 years after the launch of the frontier mission movement, fewer than 4% of global missionaries work among “unreached people groups” (UPGs). In view…
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Nursing as Ministry
Have you ever considered your profession as a ministry? Come to this session and hear about the biblical roots of nursing as ministry, your sacred calling to serve, and the importance of paying attention to those divine appointments. We will also talk about finding your passion and being...
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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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Five Principles for having a sustainable, long-term impact on a short-term trip
Whether you’re a seasoned team member or preparing for your first trip, short-term mission trips have the potential to make a meaningful global impact. In this conversation, we’ll highlight five key principles that help ensure our efforts contribute to lasting, sustainable change in the…
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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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Security Contingencies for International Missions
This session will examine key considerations for leaders, senders, and international travelers/workers in the areas of duty of care, risk assessment, contingency planning, security, and common pitfalls ("lessons learned") in international mission work.
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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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Resources for students, residents, and healthcare professionals who want to learn more about healthcare missions. Includes sessions from the Global Missions Health Conference.
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