A most heartening feature of international health care is the outstanding character of individuals thus engaged. Please let me introduce you to Dr. Kev. As a family medicine resident at Via Christi Medical Center in Wichita, Dr. Kev earned the INMED Diploma in International Medicine & Public Health, which included his supervised service-learning at a health care facility in SE Asia. Kev went on to complete the Via Christi International Medicine Fellowship, which also encompassed field experience in southern Africa.
Building upon this rich professional training and his own deep spiritual confidence, Kev is now moving to a career position again in Asia, accompanied by wife and children. This particular nation must go unnamed but is home to an extreme number of people who by no choice of their own must dwell in slums. “Over the years,” says Dr. Kevin, “I’ve enjoyed the privilege of serving the medical needs of those in the most desperate of conditions. Now I’m joyfully anticipating that privilege once again.”
Do you know someone engaged in a similar lifestyle and career tract? Please join me in affirming people like Dr. Kevin who express their virtuous nature through quite intentionally offering compassion and action on behalf of the world’s most poor.