Learning To Save Lives in Angola

I so enjoyed talking this week with Pamela Smith, a physician from Chicago who completed the clinical experience for the INMED International Medicine Certificate at Lubango Evangelical Medical Center in Angola, southern Africa. “This was so very different than any medical mission I’ve ever experienced. Before, I was the leader, though really knew almost nothing about the nation where I was serving nor the health needs of the community. But in Angola, under the guidance of Dr. Steve Foster and his Angolan colleagues, I was truly learning. The teaching was superb. The medical ministry was already well established. And in this organized environment, I discovered that I had both so much to give, so much to teach, and so many lives to save. I also discovered that rapidly caught on to the particular needs and nuances of Angola. I made the right choice to go with INMED!”