MedicalMissions.com Podcast

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MedicalMissions.com Podcast episodes

February 05, 2025 Are You Happy?
Does God want you to be happy? And how important is happiness as we pursue God's mission? We are often faced with the false choice between happiness and suffering, let's figure out a better way. In our work starting a health center in a large refugee community, we have learned so much from our staff that has challenged our "Western" perspectives on happiness. Join us as we discuss the history of happiness and the church and its relevance to today.
Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #7 at 9:30 AM EST ; speaker: Andrew Kim
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/are-you-happy
1 hr
February 05, 2025 The Power of Prayer
I'll share what we did as a team to incorporate 10-15 hours of corporate prayer into our weekly schedule while working full time as an NGO and the difference it made on team life, personal and spiritual lives and how it expanded our hearts for the people and region in which we were living. I'll share practical ways to increase prayer times overseas and explain how vital it is for health, fruit and longevity.
Session recorded on November 7 2024 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM and November 8 2024 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Session block #2
Speaker name(s): Emelia J.
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/the-power-of-prayer
0 min
January 29, 2025 Taking Part in the Biblical Story of Missions
The Bible contains a narrative, a story, about God's gracious plan in Christ to redeem us from our sin. Believers are brought into that story. This story isn't something we just know and learn about but we are called to take our place in it. Missions is hard-wired to that story. Rather than thinking of our basis for missions as simply a collection of "missions" texts (and there are many!), the Bible tells a story that spans from one end of Scripture to the other--and you are part of it.
Session recorded on November 7 2024 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM and November 8 2024 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Session block #2
Speaker name(s): Brian Vickers
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/taking-part-in-the-biblical-story-of-missions
1 hr 6 min
January 28, 2025 The Grand Healing Narrative and Our Unique Niche
Each of our lives is a narrative. God’s word is a meta-narrative, a grand healing narrative. Weaving these narratives together in the context of the people we serve leads to missional living where ever we are called. Given our unique talents, gifts, passions, cultures and professions, how do we discern and sustain our respective niche in the purposeful and wonderful story of God?
Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #7 at 9:30 AM EST ; speaker: Daniel ONeill
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/the-grand-healing-narrative-and-our-unique-niche
1 hr 2 min
January 22, 2025 Teaching and encouraging early patient mobility to non-rehab professionals in mission hospitals
Many mission hospitals around the world do not have access to Rehab Professionals. Early patient mobility has been shown to improve patient’s outcomes. Visiting Medical Professionals, Doctors, Therapists, Nurses and other professionals can play an important role in teaching non rehab professional clinicians in mission hospitals when and how to mobilize even some of the sickest or most severely injured patients. This workshop will review some basic rehab patient mobility techniques.
Session recorded on November 7 2024 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session block #1
Speaker name(s): Skip Roy
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/teaching-and-encouraging-early-patient-mobility-to-non-rehab-professionals-in-mission-hospitals
1 hr 2 min
January 21, 2025 How To Take a Spiritual History
Spirituality is an important component of health, and assessing a patient's spirituality is a cultural competence of healthcare professionals. This session will review secular “best practice” guidelines about spiritual assessment and provide a framework for taking a spiritual history during our interactions with patients. Participants will role-play a variety of spiritual history-taking scenarios.

In this session, you'll learn how to routinely and confidently assess your patient’s spirituality, and practice your spiritual history-taking skills.
Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #7 at 9:30 AM EST ; Speaker: Mark
https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/how-to-take-a-spiritual-history
55 min
January 17, 2025 Transformative Healing: Integrating Plastic Surgery, Gospel, and Long-Term Medical Missions
This lecture delves into the integration of subspecialty skills, particularly cleft palate repair, to provide a platform to advance the gospel among unreached people groups. By intertwining the healing art of plastic surgery with the principles of the Gospel, it highlights a holistic approach to medical missions. The talk also underscores the significance of sustainable, long-term engagement, aiming to create enduring health improvements and foster community well-being.
Session recorded on November 7 2024 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM and November 9 2024 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Session block #1
Speaker name(s): Paul K. Lim MD
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/transformative-healing-integrating-plastic-surgery-gospel-and-long-term-medical-missions
1 hr 23 min
January 15, 2025 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 too many things?
- Looking for practical tools and resources to prepare for mission?

Through the years, God has overwhelmed the Samoutou family with His tremendous grace, provision, and protection. Joyce will be the first to tell you how many humble pies she has eaten and lessons she has learnt along the way - from practicing medicine in a way that her training had not prepared her for, being far away from family and the world she knew, running a charity, leading a team, handling tricky and scary situations, raising a family, and getting over herself. She has also picked up several practical tips and tools along the way that can be helpful to those considering or having already embarked on overseas missions.

In this session, participants will, through the firsthand experience of a missionary-medic- homeschooling parent who co-founded an international ministry:
- Learn what is involved in starting, fundraising, and running an international non-profit medical organization in resource-limited settings, the challenges as well as useful practical suggestions in overcoming them.
- Be encouraged and empowered to embark and thrive on long-term missions as health professionals, spouses, and parents with ageing parents back home.
- Have an opportunity to ask questions that they have always wanted to ask a missionary who is happy to share with humor, candor, and vulnerability.
Session recorded on November 7 2024 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM and November 7 2024 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session block #1
Speaker name(s): Dr Joyce Samoutou-Wong
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/ten-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-i-became-an-unlikely-missionary-doctor-wife-and-homeschool-mama-2
1 hr 14 min
January 14, 2025 Top 10 Papers in Primary Care: Key Studies to Know About
In this session, we will review 10 potentially practice changing articles for primary care in the developed and developing world from 2019-2023 and will present each of these articles in a few minutes, critically appraising the articles and highlighting the positives and negatives of each. We will also discuss issues related to applicability of this research in different settings.
Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #7 at 9:30 AM EST ; Speakers: Philip Dooley and Jeff Leman
https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/top-10-papers-in-primary-care-key-studies-to-know-about
1 hr
January 08, 2025 Severe Neonatal Jaundice and its Progression to Kernicterus Spectrum Disorder a Global Approach
We will discuss the burden of disease from severe neonatal jaundice and its progression to kernicterus spectrum disorder highlighting both the problem as a neonate and as an older child/adult living with the consequences
Session recorded on November 7 2024 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session block #1
Speaker name(s): Tina Slusher MD
Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/severe-neonatal-jaundice-and-its-progression-to-kernicterus-spectrum-disorder-a-global-approach
1 hr 15 min

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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.