David Lachman is a medical student at the Medical College of Georgia. Inspired through his earlier experience in China, David is preparing to study in Shenyang, China, for the INMED International Medicine & Public Health Diploma. “While I was studying Chinese in Shanghai, my professor wanted me to see the contrast between the modern cities of […]
Paul Cartwright has long dreamed of serving in Africa. Now, as a medical student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Paul’s dream is becoming reality. He is scheduled to study at Banso Baptist Hospital in Cameroon, West Africa, in January and February, 2006. “At the beginning of med school I had
The face of medical missions has changed dramatically since Albert Schweitzer left for Gabon in 1910. He served isolated people with very limited medical resources. Over the last 100 years we have witnessed enormous increases in international relations and medical capabilities. We have also seen the capitalization of medicine into an industry, the rise of
Six medical students from the Universities of Missouri and Kansas Schools of Medicine completed the INMED International Medicine & Public Health Diploma during the 2004-05 academic year. Erika Kloepfel served for a month at Hospital Evangelico in Honduras. Jennifer Rathburn, Chrissy VanDillen, Diana Atashroo and Lisa Roark studied at Nilerigu Baptist Medical Center in Ghana. To
Memories from my first airplane flights are really more emotions rekindled than events remembered. I recall the magical feeling of lifting off the pavement, of seeing the clouds up close, and then the first bump of turbulence. The bumps didn’t bother me at first. But as the speed of the airplane increased, the jolts
In May 2005 HCA, Hospital Corporation of America, donated office space to INMED in the doctor’s building at Baptist-Lutheran Medical Center at 6700 Troost Avenue, Suite 224, in Kansas City, Missouri, 64131-4401. These 200 square feet of comfortable space now allow INMED’s full-time staff of two to more effectively equip health professional for international service.
Chrissy VanDillen recently served at the Baptist Medical Center in Nalerigu, northern Ghana, and earned the INMED International Medicine & Public Health Diploma.” “I am a medical student at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, and have been interested in international medicine and learning about all the opportunities available for physicians to help people outside of the
In 1989 I arrived in Luanda, the capital city of Angola, to begin making good on my commitment to assist the churches in interior city of Huambo as they launched a healthcare project. Those were wild days of civil war: roads littered with landmines, random military attacks on nationals and foreigners alike, wide-spread hunger,
Well-meaning people continually inquire about the terminology associated with global health. Their inquiry is not just hair-splitting. Terminology may be subtlety different, and yet the meanings conveyed be profoundly divergent. And so consider these terms: global health, international health, international public health, and international medicine. In common usage, global health and international health best refer to the overall health status
Where will the next generation of medical missionaries come from? How will young health professionals catch the vision for missions unless they actually experience them? On this theme, my thoughts frequently turn to the new, 80 bed Lubango Evangelical Medical Center. Conceived by Steve Foster, MD, and funded through Samaritan’s Purse, the EMC will be a