What’s your pearl about serving? What wisdom can you share about this virtue? Please come join myself and the full INMED community on Thu-Fri, April 12-13 for the 2018 Humanitarian Health Conference, where our theme this year is the Art of Serving. Here, all of us – healthcare professionals, students of all sorts, […]
Imagine this situation: You are a healthcare educator approached by enthusiastic learners who deeply desire opportunities serve the world’s poor and marginalized. So, you create a curriculum complete with both core cognitive skills and service participation in your community. The announcement is imminent. You’ve only one final decision to make: What will you name
In an inspiring paradigm shift, healthcare professionals from the island nation of Haiti journeyed to the island territory of Puerto Rico, providing emergency disaster assistance. Parallel to the Haitian earthquake of 2010, Hurricane Maria unleashed devastation on Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. In the aftermath, almost every family was without electricity, safe drinking
An energetic debate is underway over the character and definition of greatness. We witness this debate being played out in foreign and economic policy, in judicial ruling, social media postings, and statements from Atheists to Zionists. In the midst of this debate, some are angry, jubilant, and almost everyone concerned. For perspective, debate
The most remarkable element of my career continues to be my outstanding colleagues, including Jackey Tong in China, Lawand Talal in Iraq, Fred Loper in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and in this photo, Steve Foster in Angola, southern Africa. Each is skilled, devoted and compassionate. And, each enjoys a maximum service span of just forty or
Nurses enjoy wonderful reputations for compassion and action. INMED now offers the professional Diploma in International Nursing & Public Health (DINPH) to further enhance nurse’s credentials and skills in serving the world’s most poor. DINPH qualification has two parts. First is an International Nursing & Public Health Hybrid Course that includes the most common
In the United States and Europe, not so long ago the words TB were interpreted similarly to the way AIDS and cancer often are today. TB meant fear, suffering and death. And no wonder. This aggressive lung infection caused people to cough up blood, alienate their friends and family over fear of transmission, and
“We who are weak are focused on ourselves. We don’t have the capacity to improve the plight of others.” Dr. Pangyan was in northeastern China making his appeal to recruit physicians for the LIGHT medical care team. They looked on doubtfully and inquired, “What sort of capacity?” Pangyan explained, “Sometimes we lack skill, health,
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing ~ Albert Schweitzer. These words by the Nobel Prize winning philosopher and physician to West Africa are being lived out today in the lives of this group of healthcare professionals gathered at Kansas University Medical Center. They graduated last
Andrew Taylor Still was founder of osteopathy and of our nation’s first osteopathic medical school. Located in Kirksville, Missouri, AT Still University is also host to the INMED International Medicine & Public Health Hybrid Course. This second weekend in November ATSU students for the third year running gathered for two days of hands-on skills