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Dentistry 101 for the Non-Dentist

There are not enough dental professionals on the mission field and time and time again I have been asked, "What should I do and what can I do to help those in an emergency situation?" Dental needs and emergencies are ubiquitous on the mission field and often a non-dentist is the only one to care for them. Our time together will give you some important insights and guidelines to care for those in great need without hope and without help.

The Bible & Missions

Neighborhood Transformation Panel

Short term trips are no longer just handing out pills but now involve teaching of national health workers at various levels of training and in various locations. This session will deal with how we can improve our teaching of local health care professionals.

TB DOTS Treatment in Afghanistan

How to integrate community health into curative health programs. Hospital programs often have little community orientation. Communigty health efforts may create tension with curative programs. This talk will discuss how curative care and community health complement each other and how to integrate them effectively together

Missions Medicine and Academic Medicine: An Unlikely Marriage?

Historically, the practice of medicine in the mission setting has been stereotyped as involving a single doctor involved in direct patient care from dawn until dusk, caring for a myriad of different conditions. Little attention was given, in many situations, to the academic pursuits of teaching and research. This workshop will strive, in an interactive fashion, to discuss the merits of adjusting our paradigm of missions medicine to involve the pursuits of training of national staff and deve...

Mission Pharmacy for Short Term Teams

This presentation will review the various suppliers available for short term mission pharmacy. Their processes, lead times, product availability and cost considerations will be presented.

Mid-level providers: the future of medical missions

Short-term medical missions often destroy community confidence in the local health system. Working through true case presentations we demonstrate how medical mission teams can cause harm in communities. These case presentations also show how the local medical community can be negatively impacted by mission teams. We then work through medical mission strategies that aid and support local health providers.

Best Practices for Effective Health Missions

Drug Diversion: How It Hurts All of Us

Drug diversion, counterfiting and unethical drugs are not just a major problem in developing nations. This problem has now come home to the USA and affects or potentially could affect any person here as well as those abroad. This workshop will first focus on the magnitude of the problem. New regulations that will be enforced wichin the US will be briefly outlined. Finally there will be a presentation of various means to limit or eliminate this problem.

Plastic surgery mission trips: Plastic Surgery in the Jungle

Plastic surgery mission trips describes how God can use reconstructive surgery to remove guilt, fear of a curse or evil spirits in many parts of our world. Those with severe congenital and acquired deformities often feel rejected by God and live isolated from their neighbors. Reconstructive surgery often bridges the gulf to God and gives evidence that God does love them. Learn more about plastic surgery mission trips here. 

Transferring Skills and knowledge on Short Term Trips

Spiritual Survival Tips for Short-Term Medical Missions Team

Plastic Surjery in the Jungle

Describes how God can use reconstructive surgery to remove guilt, fear of a curse or evil spirits in many parts of our world. Those with severe congenital and acquired deformities often feel rejected by God and live isolated from their neighbors. Reconstructive surgery often bridges the gulf to God and gives evidence that God does love them.

PLENARY SESSION: Being a Real Disciple

Update on Malaria Treatment Guidelines

Malaria control requires an integrated approach with an emphasis on prevention and prompt treatment with effective antimalarials. This presentation will review some of the key points of the WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria and the key elements of the Global Malaria Action Plan. Key interventions to control malaria include: prompt and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies; use of insecticidal nets by people at risk; and indoor residual spraying with inse...

PLENARY SESSION: Brother Danie

Maternal Mortality A Key Battle

A session to familiarize the missionary physician with the Millennium Development Goals and their implications for life issues internationally.

Healthcare for all by the year 2020

This session will address three questions: What are the cultural origins of health-related behavior? How can we help people and communities change health-related behavior through changes in the cultural origins of their behavior? How does community health promote the spiritual being of the people?

PLENARY SESSION: Closing Session

The ABCs of Missions

PLENARY SESSION: Florence Muindi

PLENARY SESSION: Take the Hill

Empowering Nationals to Develop Culture-Specific Strategies for HIV Prevention & Ministry

In this interactive session we will discuss what makes HIV prevention and ministry effective, the importance of the active involvement of the church in HIV and why it is essential to tailor strategies to local culture. The session will be based on the experience of the facilitator in HIV prevention (since 1985) and in empowering nationals to develop their own unique approaches to and tools for HIV minsitry around the world.

PLENARY SESSION: What are the Different Foundations for Healthcare and Medicine

Empowerment vs. Dependency

The volume of aid resources doesn matter as much as the implementation philosophy that the aid is being channeled into. The old adage that ideas have consequences is quite true untested and shallow ideas often have negative consequences on those that are being served. This session will explore the difference between a dependency philosophy and an empowering strategy, and these ideas will be shared in such a way to be applied to any aid related work.

"Primum Non Nocere": First, Do No Harm

This is one of the principle precepts taught in every med school, and is the basis for all emergency medicine.  But while we are careful to “do no harm” with our patients, we overlook the harm we do in perpetuating a fallen health delivery system by the way we run our practices.  This workshop examines several best practice models of how Christian health professionals have chosen to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, and will challenge us to look at our responsibility as ...