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MedicalMissions.com Podcast
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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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Cross-Cultural Communication in Medical Contexts
1w agoTap to summarizeUnderstanding 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 communication and their application to medical scenarios.
Transcribe →The Emotional and Spiritual Impact of Disability
2w agoTap to summarizeWith 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 church and global workers can effectively support the disabled community with this critical need.
Transcribe →Risk It!
3w agoTap to summarizeTo 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?”
Transcribe →Plenary Session 1, 2025: Thirty years of GMHC - Looking Back and Pressing Forward
3w agoTap to summarizeThe 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 careers by attending the conference. We'll review the most influential speakers and concepts that made the GMHC a groundbreaking movement. We'll also look forward to the next thirty years of Christian healthcare missions.
Transcribe →Serving God in Singleness
Jun 3Tap to summarizeNo description available
Transcribe →How to Use (and Not Abuse) Our Power as Healthcare Missionaries
May 27Tap to summarizeThe 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 the fundamental nature of professionalism and key kingdom strategies of healthcare missions.
Transcribe →How Compassion, Technology, and Innovation Empower Health Equity in Resource-Limited Contexts
May 20Tap to summarizeTransforming 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.
Transcribe →Cultural Distress and the Physiological Response
May 13Tap to summarizeWhat 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 cultural humility to help patients navigate healthcare. Come find the best ways to deliver culturally sensitive care in any setting.
Transcribe →Faith and the Fight Against Human Trafficking - A Missions Journey
Apr 29Tap to summarizeDevelop 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 the link between human trafficking and craniofacial birth defects
Transcribe →Should I Pursue Domestic or International Medical Missions? Yes!
Apr 15Tap to summarizeFruitful 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 for the other. Many international workers spend furlough time working in American Christian health centers--and vice-versa.
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