Content Resources

(1) What is the conflict between Science and Religion all about? (2) What are the differences between Evidence Based Medicine, Market Based Medicine and Complimentary and Alternative Medicine? (3) What are the differences between Religiosity and Spirituality? (4) What is the Faith Factor and how strong is the relationship to increased health benefits? (5) What do the Intercessory Prayer Studies show? (6) Divine Healing, Gifts of Healings, and Faith Healing—What are the differences? (7) Spirituality in Medicine—How does the Christian healthcare worker integrate Good Science with a Biblical Worldview and the Great Commission?

This session will focus on important priorities, challenges and risks encountered in disaster relief. A brief introduction to the Disaster Paradigm© based on the AMA’s Disaster Life Support Courses will be reviewed.

Disaster response provides tremendous opportunities for compassion ministry and short-term mission teams. The 7 Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission will be reviewed in the context of disaster relief. These standardshelp to insure appropriate focus on long term relief and recovery, participation and empowerment of national workers, and prevention of dependence and paternalism.

Join us as Global Project directors Connie Jarlsberg and Renee Lick along with student participants share lessons learned and the way God transformed them and their Ugandan ministry partners as they served and learned together.

Why does the Joint Commission now require a spiritual history for hospital admissions? This evidence-based review of the literature looks at the how’s and why’s of spiritual assessment in clinical medicine with a practical how-to time of discussion.

This session will explore opportunities to serve full time or short term as a pharmacist both globally in Latin America as well as domestically . From medical mission trips floating down the Amazon River in Bolivia where interacting with indigenous tribes is the primary focus, to caring for the underserved at medical clinics in Southwest Virginia. This session will be an informative, personal session to provide professionals with opportunities to serve in groups or as individuals in pharmacy based settings.

MAP’s ministry is grounded in a broad vision and understanding of health. MAP’s guiding principles state that among the many human needs, it is called to focus on the ministry of Total Health. Total health doesn’t describe the state of someone’s health but rather the ways that individuals, families and communities can take responsible action to improve their well-being. Self empowerment and holism are therefore important dimensions of the THV50-40-10®.The THV50-40-10®program is a ‘Low input, high-impact strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals’. It is a cost effective community development strategy that leads to Total Well being; a way to impact a whole village of close to a thousand people through a facilitative and low input cost strategy .It is a completely Participatory strategy where communities identify needs, analyze their situation, plan a response strategy, actively work with the CORP (Community’s Own Resource Persons) and ENGAGE actively in solving their own problems. The session will cover the principles, practices and strategies for launching THV-50-40-10® (Total Health Village)

To present teaching in the healthcare professions as an opportunity for missions. There is a global need for healthcare professionals with critical thinking and problem solving skills for competent practice in today’s healthcare environment. This has created a demand for qualified educators in the healthcare professions and opened doors for Christian educators to fill these roles and be involved in evangelism, discipleship and the development of Christian leaders in healthcare for the nations.

This session consists of a panel of women physicians who have served or are serving long term in medical missions. They will describe their call to missions, their missions service, and answer questions from the audience regarding issues of particular interest to women medical students and physicians considering medical missions.

There is great concern about the extent to which certain microorganisms have become resistant to the antimicrobial agents to which they were once highly susceptible. At the same time, there has been a significant decline in the number of new antimicrobial agents being developed and marketed. This presentation considers the uses and most important characteristics of the new drugs for the treatment of infectious diseases. Where possible, the properties of the new drugs are compared with those of older drugs available for the same uses. A New Drug Comparison Rating (NDCR) is provided for each of the new antimicrobial agents. Selected infections (e.g., HIV/AIDS, malaria) that are of particular importance in parts of the world in which missions programs are based are considered, as are selected infections (e.g., MRSA, Lyme disease) that represent important challenges in the United States.

Anecdotal evidence points to a general uptick in the interest and participation of volunteerism, including medical volunteerism. In contrast to Christian and Christ-centered medical missions, many volunteers are secular and have no religious affiliation when they work abroad. Recent studies have also shown a significance interest in medical missions overseas in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. The aim of this workshop will be to review the literature regarding secular medical missions. Additionally, the role of medical missions in secular medical education will be considered. Finally, the motivations for medical volunteerism, its relation – either positive or negative – with Christian medical missions, and the lines of dialogue between secular and Christian medical missions will be discussed.