Ours today is a world on edge: chaos in Venezuela, starvation in Yemen, fire devastation in California, ongoing Ebola outbreaks in Democratic Republic of the Congo, to name but a few. Silhouetted against this backdrop are individuals like you; people with professional skills and a deep interest in volunteering your talents to help coax our […]
Pregnant women and their newborns are among the most vulnerable human beings. In lower-income communities, they frequently succumb to bleeding, infection, prematurity, malaria, and ineffective labor. At the Humanitarian Health Conference on April 4, INMED introduces the Professional Certificate Course in Advanced Mother Baby Outcomes (AMBO). This learning experience is designed to improve the results
Healthcare is a hazardous career tract. The 2019 Medscape National Physician Burnout, Depression & Suicide Report illustrates the perils inherent to most everyone in our professions. This survey of 15,000 physicians documented 44% experiencing burnout, 11% the blues, and 4% clinically depressed. And in the United States, one physician each days commits suicide – the
Skillful health care for culturally diverse people in low-resources settings will be an extreme test of your clinical abilities. Just imagine the challenges you might face serving in the wake of Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria, Congo’s growing Ebola epidemic, or even California’s persistent measles outbreaks. This fall, INMED is offering our series of
“I dream of serving the world’s most poor, but I’m a pharmacist. What could I do?” Actually, the world is filled with opportunities for pharmacists. Your special skills in designing and utilizing disease/syndrome management protocols can lend order to the often-chaotic world of low-resource healthcare. Your experience in healthcare safety monitoring can catch the
Providing compassionate healthcare for neglected people is virtuous but also accompanied by doubt and dubious views by our peers. For these reasons, the Humanitarian Health Conference each year is a refreshing event, bringing us in touch with like-hearted people… …none more like-hearted than Nathaniel Uhl and Lana Borden! Both single nurses in Kansas
Straight away, the reason you should not come to the Humanitarian Health Conference (HHC) is because it may profoundly disrupt your life. Consider these witnesses: Jimmy Frye RN met leaders of TEAM at the 2015 HHC, who cast a vision for medical service in a profoundly isolated Asian nation. Frye made a visit,
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,
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
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