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, moved his
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
Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital, Massachusetts General, Center for Global Health and Global Disaster Relief again this fall hosted the INMED International Medicine and International Public Health Hybrid Courses. Allow me to introduce our inspiring graduates! From North America come physicians and nurses in the fields of primary care and emergency medicine, and
Do you live in Asia or the Pacific? Do you have a heart for serving the poor in your own nation? INMED is overjoyed to announce that again this year our International Medicine & Public Health Hybrid Course will be offered online beginning June 26, with the in-classroom section in Shanghai on October 21-22.
Healthcare for refugees, victims of disaster and the ultra-poor presents unique challenges and requires special skill. INMED’s mission is to provide healthcare personnel with such skill, and our International Medicine & International Public Health Hybrid Courses are premiere resources. INMED Courses are coming again to Mass General Hospital Center for Global Health. Known especially
China’s medical system was built around care by subspecialists: cardiologists managing hypertension, endocrinologists overseeing diabetes mellitus, gastroenterologist treating GERD. Like the United States in the 1970s and 80s, China’s policy makers today recognize the profound inefficiencies of this organ-system approach to medicine. While a small percentage of patients do indeed need the expertise of
“We Kurds are a persecuted people, condemned for centuries by foreign lords,” proclaims Iraqi Kurdish attorney Lawand Talal. “So when Syrians fleeing utter terror from ISIS arrive at our borders how can we not but respond with compassion? We know exactly their plight,” explained Lawand to me on location last year in Iraqi Kurdistan.