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MedicalMissions.com Podcast
Hosted by MedicalMissions.com · EN
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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The Training Years: A Student's Guide to a Missional Life
Feb 25Tap to summarizeResidents 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.
Transcribe →Assessing and Addressing the Spiritual Needs of Patients: How to Take a Spiritual History & More
Feb 18Tap to summarizeHave 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 spiritual care and provide you with professional, timely, and proven practical methods to care for the whole person in the clinical setting. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qpah9kh1lttg6cm1jjop9/Bob-Mason-Ethics-of-Spiritual-Care-revised.pptx?rlkey=0emve2ja8282nv8xc4uinq1hg&st=9033htwx&dl=0
Transcribe →Demons, Dangers, and Detachments; 3 Fierce Enemies of Kingdom Preparation and Perseverance
Feb 11Tap to summarizeThose 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.
Transcribe →Navigate the Moral Injury Risks to Healthcare Missionaries
Feb 4Tap to summarizeMedical 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 wisdom and spirit!
Transcribe →Tropical Fever Evaluation
Jan 28Tap to summarizeOne of the most daunting clinical challenges: tropical fever
Transcribe →Five Principles for having a sustainable, long-term impact on a short-term trip
Jan 21Tap to summarizeWhether 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 communities we serve.
Transcribe →Cultural Humility in Healthcare
Jan 14Tap to summarizeAs 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 will review an approach to cultural humility highlighted by medical missions case studies.
Transcribe →Cultural Humility in Healthcare
Jan 14Tap to summarizeAs 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 will review an approach to cultural humility highlighted by medical missions case studies.
Transcribe →A Holistic Model to Address Youth Substance Use and Addictions in rural Africa
Jan 7Tap to summarizeWe 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.
Transcribe →Starting a Residency Program Overseas
Aug 20, 2020Tap to summarizeThis session will describe the challenges and issues involved in the initiation of a new residency program in a country open to this type of development. We will draw on the experience gained in starting a new family medicine residency program in both Ecuador and Rwanda, as well as the observed experience in other countries.
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