Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC)
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Nov 11, 2010 04:00 PM
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| Where | Southeast Christian Church 920 Blankenbaker Parkway Louisville, KY 40243 |
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Course Description and Target Audience
The Global Missions Health Conference in Louisville, KY, now in its 14th year, is one of the largest medical mission’s conferences in the world with an average of over 2,500 attendees. GMHC brings together leaders in global health missions from around the world for networking, education and collaboration. The conference offers over 90 workshops addressing gaps in current practice through case study and practice applications from various health professionals and leaders. Workshops are grouped into fourteen clusters, Human Trafficking, Mid-Level Practitioners, Nursing, Pharmacy, Resources for Effective Health Missions, Biblical Foundations of Health, Clinical Health and Disease, Short Term Teams, Domestic Missions, Holistic Community Development, Sending and preparing, Disaster Relief, Sustainability and Empowering Indigenous People and Urban Development. Some of the sessions will be Round Table Discussions on Themes in Global Health and (Q & A). Plenary speakers for 2010 include Dr. Walt Larimore, Dr. Rick Donlon, Carole Spears and Ben Homan.
The target audience is all specialties of physicians, nurses, pharmacist, psychologists, dentist, pharmacist, OT, nurse practitioner and others interested in these topics.
2010 CME Speaker List
BLOCK 1: Thursday, November 11th – 4:00p – 5:00p (1 CREDIT)
Clinical Pharmacy on the Mission Field REPEAT (PHARMACY CREDIT)
Speaker: Patrick Brunson, R.Ph.
Location: FH 111
Drawing on personal experiences as a missionary pharmacist in Mongolia and Tanzania, this session discusses the many aspects of clinical pharmacy for which pharmacists may have opportunity in a mission hospital. Activities such as morning rounds with missionary/volunteer physicians, medication substitution, identifying a formulary for short term clinic outreaches, serving on a mission hospital P&T committee, working within the WHO essential drug list and providing patient counseling in another language. Other pharmacist activities specific to the mission hospital setting will be discussed, including making intravenous solutions and antibiotic ointments, translation of package insert into the local languages, serving as a preceptor overseas and allowing God to work miracles when the medication runs out and getting outside your comfort zone.
Case Culturally Based HIV Education (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Duane Crumb, AA, BA
Location: ED 280
In this session, participant will learn about HIV in the context of the culture including: cultural concerns, religious issues and the latest medical interventions and management.
Survey of Worldwide Holistic Practices (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Terry Dalymple, MDiv
Location: ATCR 206
Terry Dalrymple is a pioneer in integrated or holistic ministry practice on a worldwide scale. He coordinates a network of more than 250 organizations doing holistic ministry in 93 countries. In this workshop Terry will share stories of community transformation, and survey principles and best practices for holistic community development.
Preparation for surgery as a career in medical missions (CME)
Speaker: Bruce Steffes, MD, MBA, FACS, FWACS, FCS(ECSA)
Location: ED213
This session will consist of a brief presentation followed by a panel discussion during an open question and answer period. Becoming a surgeon on the mission field, especially if one is interested in teaching, is a process, which is more complex and takes more preparation than expected. The session is designed for medical students, surgical residents and those wishing to leave their practice to join the ranks of career missionaries.
The Spiritual History - How and why Healthcare Professionals should Utilize them (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Walter Larimore, MD, DABFP, FAAFP
Location: Six Plex
Why does the Joint Commission now require a spiritual history for hospital admissions? This evidence-based review of the literature looks at the how’s and why’s of spiritual assessment in clinical medicine with a practical how-to time of discussion.
Medicine that Empowers Communities (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Justin Narducci, MBA
Location: ATCR 200/202
This session will be both philosophical and practical and will be shared from the perspective of one who has served as a bridge between the professional medical practitioner and some of the world’s poorest communities. Insights will come from practical examples and case studies of professional clinicians who have played a role in effectively empowering community development and those that haven’t, all within the context of understanding how we respond to the needs of the world is just as important as responding.
Stories from the Field REPEAT (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Steve Saint
Location: Chapel
An assortment of personal stories shared by Steve Saint from his time in Equator and other places around the world. Steve will share insights into how to engage indigenous people groups with resources for developing communities and how best to work with them to instill dignity and ownership.
Working with the Homeless REPEAT (PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Phil Hissom, MDiv
Location: ED 213
The session will cover the current statistics of homelessness in America, the main approaches to addressing homelessness, and a case study of the “Service First” model where the homeless are invited to join service projects with other groups that benefit the community.
WHO/UNICEF Child Health Standards for Developing Communities (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Greg and Candi Seager, RN
Location: ED 214/215
This session is an overview of WHO/UNICEF child health Standards as they apply to both short and long-term healthcare assignments. We will look at some of the relevant literature and review health indicators to be assessed in both long and short term healthcare assignments. We will also look at how to use the data collected from the use of relevant indicators to establish community disease and malnutrition prevalence and specific community health programming targets.
Cross Cultural Holistic Approches to Healthcare (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Daniel Tolan, MD
Location: WC 370
Cross-cultural holistic approaches to Healthcare. How does one address holistic needs in cross-cultural healthcare? There are important principals and presuppositions we must understand if we are to effectively address spiritual needs and dimensions of people and communities. You cannot reach competency in holistic healthcare simply in one or two hours. What is the goal of this session? To challenge you through stories, lessons learned, mistakes made and discussion to pursue a deeper understanding of the needs, barriers, opportunities, expectations and joys of integrated holistic healthcare in a cross-cultural international setting. Goals: (1) Setting the tone for the holistic approach (2) Understanding the importance of culture and worldview (3) Establishing a team approach (4) Hindrances, especially to the western-trained professional (5) Resources
No Hands but Yours: Medical Disaster Relief after the Haitian Earthquake (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: April Perry, RN, APN, MEd
Location: WC 264
April has worked in Haiti for over 10 years leading short term medical missionaries as well as founding and chairing a faith-based non- profit which promotes public health initiatives in rural areas and urban slums in Haiti. She was part of a first response medical relief team with North Carolina Baptist Men’s Disaster Relief Organization arriving only 6 days after the earthquake, the modern world’s worst natural disaster. She worked in two hospitals providing first response disaster medical care. This session will describe the conditions she found in Haiti, her work providing medical care in disaster conditions as well as the issues related to providing disaster medical care in a developing country.
BLOCK 2: Friday, November 12th – 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM (1 CREDIT)
Introduction to Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Jeff Barrows, DO
Location: ED 210/212
This session will introduce the attendee to the topic of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) by giving both a definition and examples of DMST. The session will also include discussion of the predisposing factors toward DMST, recruiting techniques, mindset of the victim, indicators of DMST, and what to do if you encounter a potential victim of DMST.
Planning an Effective Pharmacy on Short-Term Medical Assignment Projects (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHARMACY)
Speaker: Christine Birnie, RPh, PhD
Location: FH 111
Having the appropriate pharmacy supplies and medications are essential to ensure your short-term mission trip is successful. This session will address how to plan and execute a well run pharmacy during a short term medical mission trip. Planning a formulary, acquisition of medication and supplies, transporting medication, packaging and dispensing, patient counseling and other pharmacy services will be discussed. Contributions and best practices from the audience will be encouraged.
Partnering and preparing: Medical education and teaching overseas (REPEAT) (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS)
Speaker: William Cayley, MD, MDiv
Location: ATCR 200/202
Today in many developing countries, nursing is still yet to be recognized for its significant impact on quality patient care. As a result, these nurses are seen more as subordinates to physicians and lack the opportunities to develop to their full potential as leaders in health care organizations and in the provision of quality patient care.
Fighting the Diseases of Poverty (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH
Location: ED 280
Poverty and health are intimately associated. The nations of poverty are also home to the lowest life expectancy, greatest child mortality, and highest number of preventable deaths. Three interventions are especially effective. First, we must promote economic development, for history demonstrates that as overall income increase so does health status. Second, we must stand against military conflict, for in nations so embattled over 90 percent of deaths are from hunger and infectious diseases. Third, we must advocate those specific interventions that have proven most effective against the leading diseases of poverty, such as provision of safe drinking water and mosquito nets to prevent malaria, though these interventions may be inconsistent with the standard medical paradigm.
Promoting nursing excellence in India (NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS)
Speaker: Robyn Hale-Bullock, RN, MSN
Location: AT 106/109
Nurses from developed countries who have advanced degrees, such as MSN and Ph.D. are strategically positioned to meet the growing need of Nursing Leadership development of nurse leaders and the promotion of excellence in nursing care in developing countries. Today in many developing countries, nursing is still yet to be recognized for its significant impact on quality patient care. As a result, these nurses are seen more as subordinates to physicians and lack the opportunities to develop to their full potential as leaders in health care organizations and in the provision of quality patient care. This session will provide you with the knowledge of the presenter's journey in living & working as a missionary nurse in India, and her continued passion to work with nurses in India while now living in the USA.
Stories from the Field REPEAT (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Steve Saint
Location: WC 264
An assortment of personal stories shared by Steve Saint from his time in Equator and other places around the world. Steve will share insights into how to engage indigenous people groups with resources for developing communities and how best to work with them to instill dignity and ownership.
“Playing God” and other Ethical Issues in Medicine (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics)
Location: WC 370
Facing unlimited needs and limited resources of personnel, equipment and supplies, medical missionaries daily have to "play God." What ethical guidelines and practices can guide you through these and other ethical minefields that almost no one talks about? What changes are mandatory to your American thinking if you are going to survive and flourish?
Survival Tips for Short Term Medical Mission Teams (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Wagdy Wahba, PhD, RPh
Location: ED 202/206
Usually the focus of short-term medical missions is to meet the needs of the population visited. This presentation will shed some light on spiritual survival tips needed for the teammembers. Addressing their spiritual need will equip each member of the medical mission team to become more efficient in reaching target population medically and from a holistic approach.
BLOCK 3: Friday, November 12th – 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (1 CREDIT)
How the Medical Professional can become an Abolitionist (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Jeff Barrows, DO
Location: ED 214/215
This session will give the medical professional ideas of how he/she can become more involved within the abolitionist movement that is rising up across America to fight the modern day slavery of human trafficking. Specific suggestions will be given regarding ways to become involved by raising awareness of human trafficking, training individuals on human trafficking, and even getting involved with victims of trafficking.
How to Keep Your Promise, Preparing for a Career in Domestic or International Missions (PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Rick Donlon, MD
Location: Chapel
There are countless barriers that prevent aspiring healthcare missionaries from achieving their goals. Come learn strategies for recognizing and overcoming both obvious and hidden obstacles.
Update on Drug Counterfeiting (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHARMACY, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Harold Harder, PhD
Location: ATCR 200/202
The entry of counterfeit medicines into the USA has accelerated greatly as a result of illegal internet pharmacies. Some major changes have occurred in the policies of some website search engines that will impede the entry of counterfeit medicines into the US. But, this will probably only temporarily reduce the size of the counterfeit market in the US. This presentation will cover the following issues: 1) Examples of the impact of drug counterfeits in the USA and abroad. However, this is not a witch hunt of counterfeit medicines. The purpose of these examples is to get your attention on the urgency of this problem; 2) Counterfeit medicines in general; 3) The magnitude of the problem; 4) Examples of the impact of counterfeit medicines on mortality and morbidity; 5) Levels of counterfeit prevention measures-Overt, Covert, and Forensic; 6) Examples of each of the above types of intervention; 7) Changes In US law and current CA law to mandate implementation of ePedigree and other counterfeit intervention and drug diversion protection measures; 8) How to know from which Internet pharmacies are safe to order drugs.
Starting a Successful Ante-natal Program (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Cathy Hoelzer, MPH, PA-C
Location: ED 280
Many women in the developing world suffer from a dearth of ante-natal health care. This is due to many factors such as lack of qualified, trained medical cadre, women’s health illiteracy, and harmful cultural practices. As a result, many women have increased morbidity and mortality related to pregnancy. Along with this, there is often high infant mortality rates. Setting up a culturally relevant and attractive antenatal program can be a challenge. The speaker will share from her personal experiences in Southern Sudan, how one such program was started in an area where nearly 99% of the women birthed at home and never received any antenatal care prior to this program.
Secular Medical Missions: A Different Motivation (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Andrew Huang, MD
Location: WC 264
Anecdotal evidence points to a general uptick in the interest and participation of volunteerism, including medical volunteerism. In contrast to Christian and Christ-centered medical missions, many volunteers are secular and have no religious affiliation when they work abroad. Recent studies have shown a significance interest in medical missions overseas in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. The aim of this workshop will be to review the literature regarding secular medical missions. Additionally, the role of medical missions in secular medical education will be considered. Finally, the motivations for medical volunteerism, its relation – either positive or negative – with Christian medical missions, and the lines of dialogue between secular and Christian medical missions will be discussed.
The Disaster Paradigm© and a Review of Priorities in Disaster Relief (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Rev. James Lindgren, MD, FAAP, FACP, FAEP
Location: ATCR 206
This session will focus on important priorities, challenges and risks encountered in disaster relief. A brief introduction to the Disaster Paradigm© based on the AMA’s Disaster Life Support Courses will be reviewed.
Continuity in a Community Health and Development Project in Uganda - 25 Years and Counting (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: David Muhovich, MS, MPH, RN, PhD
Location: FH 111
This session will discuss an effective community-based health and development organization in Eastern Uganda that began in the mid 1980s and is still active. This project has had remarkable sustainability and reasonable costs. Anecdotal and statistical information will be presented about the program activities in terms of both community and staff impact. The role of encouragement as a reciprocal empowerment strategy will be highlighted.
Help or Harm: What do we Treat on Short Term Medical Trips? (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS)
Speaker: Jack Pike, BS, PA-C
Location: AT 106/109
The session is designed to have an interactive discussion on the realistic and practical approach to initiating treatment of a variety of disease processes, especially chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension.
HIV/AIDS Case Studies (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Suzie Snyder, MD, MACP, FAAP
Location: Six Plex
HIV/AIDS remains a tremendous challenge with medical, emotional, economic and social problems. Using case presentations and an interactive format, this workshop will explore HIV/AIDS care and treatment issues particularly from the speaker’s experience in Africa.
Mid-Levels: a Perfect Fit for the Developing World (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Nancy Staible, PA-C
Location: WC 370
The presentation will feature the personal experience of a physician assistant who has provided healthcare in the developing world most recently in Latin America, India and Africa. The advantages of the training and healthcare provision capabilities of the mid-level, the obstacles to healthcare provision in the developing world and the means by which those obstacles can be overcome will be discussed. The importance of national partners in the medical mission field for follow up and if possible for continuity of care will be examined. The speaker will present an overview of organizations that are recruiting mid-levels for short and full term medical assignments.
Medical Missions - Past, Present & Future (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics)
Location: ED 210/212
The enterprise of medical missions has brought health and opened the doors for a holistic approach in countless countries. This rich history continues today. In Africa, 40-70% of health services are still provided by church and mission facilities. How do we build on the achievements of yesteryears and achieve success in the years to come? How can you fit in?
Best Practices and Medical Missions (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Peter Yorgin, MD, FAAP
Location: ED 202/206
Objectives: (1) Describe the six key indigenous partner groups needed for effective medical missions (2) Discuss three common challenge areas for medical missions: Mission logic Point of View, Curative Care Perspective, Surgical Care (3) Explore WHO guidelines relevant to the use of oral medications in medical missions.
BLOCK 4: Friday, November 12th – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (1 CREDIT)
Clinical Pharmacy on the Mission Field REPEAT (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHARMACY, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Patrick Brunson, RPh
Location: FH 111
Drawing on personal experiences as a missionary pharmacist in Mongolia and Tanzania, this session discusses the many aspects of clinical pharmacy for which pharmacists may have opportunity in a mission hospital. Activities such as morning rounds with missionary/volunteer physicians, medication substitution, identifying a formulary for short term clinic outreaches, serving on a mission hospital P&T committee, working within the WHO essential drug list and providing patient counseling in another language. Other pharmacist activities specific to the mission hospital setting will be discussed, including making intravenous solutions and antibiotic ointments, translation of package insert into the local languages, serving as a preceptor overseas and expecting miracles when the medication runs out and when you are outside your comfort zone.
Tips on Using Interpreters and Translators in Teaching Internationally (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Sharon Falkenheirmer, MD, MPH
Location: ATCR 206
Opportunities are increasing to teach colleagues, students, and others who speak and understand another language in which the healthcare professional is not fluent. Such opportunities require the use of an interpreter. This session will consider: the need for interpreters, training in using them, professional vs. non-professional interpreters, preparing the interpreter for the sessions, and the effectiveness of informing/teaching patients through an interpreter. It will also touch on the use of translators, since they may also be needed if visual presentations or handouts are to be presented in the first language of the audience.
Working with the Homeless REPEAT (PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Phil Hissom, MDiv
Location: ED 213
The session will cover the current statistics of homelessness in America, the main approaches to addressing homelessness, and a case study of the “Service First” model where the homeless are invited to join service projects with other groups that benefit the community.
Science, Religion and Healthcare (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Larry Lytle, MD
Location: WC 231
(1) What is the conflict between Science and Religion all about? (2) What are the differences between Evidence Based Medicine, Market Based Medicine and Complimentary and Alternative Medicine? (3) What are the differences between Religiosity and Spirituality? (4) What is the Faith Factor and how strong is the relationship to increased health benefits? (5) What do the Intercessory Prayer Studies show? (6) Divine Healing, Gifts of Healings, and Faith Healing—What are the differences? (7) Spirituality in Medicine—How does the healthcare professional integrate Good Science with a faith-based Worldview?
Q&A on Becoming a healthcare professional in the Mission Field: Panel with two docs & two nurses (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHARMACY, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Rev. John McVay, MDiv
Location: ED 280
This session will share answers on how to opt for a career or change your career and become a healthcare professional in the mission field. Each person who attends will receive a 3 x 5 card when they enter the room. The moderator John McVay will group and select questions, direct them to appropriate panelists, and receive questions from the floor. Probable topics discussed from questions expected are: Guidance, Agencies, Training, Funding, Singles, and Families.
Learning from Each Other About CHE REPEAT (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Stan Rowland, CMP
Location: ED 210/212
This session will bring people together that have been doing or starting to use Community Health Evangelism (CHE) as a wholistic community development tool. Therefore, most of the presentation will come from the people in the seminar sharing their experiences including their success and failures.
Short Term Healthcare/Medical Mission Boot Camp - Learning to Do It Well (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics)
Location: Chapel
With stories laced with humor learn the principles and practices of a great short term healthcare/medical mission experience whether you are going for the first or your fortieth time. Your patients will be better for it!
BLOCK 5: Friday, November 12th – 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (1 CREDIT)
Orphans and Vulnerable Children (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Debbie Doty, MA, BS
Location: WC 370
One of the results of the global HIV and AIDS pandemic is an overwhelming number of orphans and vulnerable children. This session will discuss the unique needs of children impacted by HIV and AIDS and present "best practices" to guide the compassionate responses.
A case study of the Vanga Health System in the Congo (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Dan Fountain, MD, MPH
Location: ED 210/212
The Vanga Hospital began in a rural area of western Congo in 1920. Beginning in 1961 the hospital grew into a comprehensive and sustainable medical health service run by the Congolese church in partnership with a missionary staff. The health system includes: (1) A 400 bed multi-specialty teaching hospital (2) A school for training nurse practitioners and nurse midwives (3) A widespread system of improving community health through dialogue and community initiatives (4) A decentralized network of rural health centers that make primary health care services accessible to the entire population of 250,000 in the catchment area (5) A family medicine residency for Congolese family physicians (6) A team approach to caring for the whole person (7) An integrated approach to coping with the HIV-AIDS epidemic.
The Nuts, Bolts, and Duct Tape of Doing a Short-term Health Outreach (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Brent Hambrick, MD
Location: ATCR 206
In this session, we will discuss almost every aspect of how to perform a short term health outreach: how to arrange travel, how to determine your formulary and where to find the cheapest medications, which dental equipment works best and where to obtain it, which optometry diagnostic systems are best in a portable environment, where to obtain the cheapest eyeglasses, and how to integrate evangelism into your health outreach. This session includes almost everything you need to know to effectively execute a short term health outreach in a foreign country.
The Global Burden of Disease (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Cathy Hoelzer, MPH, PA-C
Location: AT 106/109
This lecture will present the changing face of disease in the world and how it corresponds with globalization. There is an epidemiological transition occurring from infectious to chronic diseases. Mortality from chronic diseases has been rising in the US for many years. However, developing nations are also seeing a rise in chronic diseases; and they are now the largest cause of death in the world. The leading causes of chronic diseases will be presented in this lecture along with their shared key risk factors.
The THV-50-40-10® : Total Health Village - a unique strategy for Holistic community development (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Ravi Jayakaran, BVS, AH, MD
Location: WC 231
MAP’s is grounded in a broad vision and understanding of health. MAP’s guiding principles state that among the many human needs, it is called to focus on the Total Health. Total health doesn’t describe the state of someone’s health but rather the ways that individuals, families and communities can take responsible action to improve their well-being. Self empowerment and holism are therefore important dimensions of the THV50-40-10®. The THV50-40-10® program is a ‘Low input, high-impact strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals’. It is a cost effective community development strategy that leads to Total Well being; a way to impact a whole village of close to a thousand people through a facilitative and low input cost strategy. It is a completely Participatory strategy where communities identify needs, analyze their situation, plan a response strategy, actively work with the CORP (Community’s Own Resource Persons) and ENGAGE actively in solving their own problems. The session will cover the principles, practices and strategies for launching THV-50-40-10® (Total Health Village)
Opportunities to Serve the World...or Your Local Community as a Pharmacist (PHARMACY)
Speaker: Julie Kidd, PharmD
Location: WC 264
This session will explore opportunities to serve full time or short term as a pharmacist both globally in Latin America as well as domestically. From medical mission trips floating down the Amazon River in Bolivia where interacting with indigenous tribes is the primary focus, to caring for the underserved at medical clinics in Southwest Virginia. This session will be an informative, personal session to provide professionals with opportunities to serve in groups or as individuals in pharmacy based settings.
Standards of Excellence and Disaster Relief (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: James Lindgren, MD, FAAP, FACP, FAEP
Location: ED 214/215
Disaster response provides tremendous opportunities for compassion ministry and short-term mission teams. The 7 Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission will be reviewed in the context of disaster relief. These standards help to insure appropriate focus on long term relief and recovery, participation and empowerment of national workers, and prevention of dependence and paternalism.
Learning from Each Other About CHE (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Stan Rowland, CMP
Location: ED 210/212
Holistic Community Development (CHE) - This session will bring people together that have been doing CHE or starting to use CHE as a holistic community development tool. Therefore most of the presentation will come from the people in the seminar sharing their experiences including their success and failures.
Operating Responsible Short-term Healthcare Missions (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Greg and Candi Seager, RN
Location: ED 202/206
This session will review case presentations that demonstrate the potential for harm associated with healthcare missions. We will look at methods by which such problems can be avoided. The potential for harm related to short-term medical missions does exist, and in a much more real way than most of us care to acknowledge. It is only through the careful examination of such problems can we develop health mission strategies that mitigate harm, and improve community health.
Measuring Effectiveness of Local Health Engagement (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Donald Thompson, MD, MPH, TM
Location: Chapel
Short-term health-related missions have been criticized for inadequate long-term impact on local health indicators, and on the actual team participants. Costs for short-term medical missions appear excessive to some, given the limited impact on spiritual and physical needs. This session will examine the criticism and present proposed measures of effectiveness that can be used by short-term and long-term trip planners and strategists to support improved planning and execution of short-term medical missions trips.
Why Won’t “They” Listen? (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Phil Thornton, PhD
Location: ATCR 200/202
Why don’t they see that what they are doing is wrong! Why don’t they understand my explanation? Why won’t they look at me when I talk to them? Why won’t they make a decision…after all, any decision is better than no decision at all! Learn why these and other “misunderstandings” result in “mis-communications” in the world of cross-cultural ministry and how we can overcome them.
The Health Consequences of Human Trafficking (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Katherine Welch, MD
Location: Six Plex
Human trafficking has grave consequences on the health of victims and includes a wide variety of health issues. This talk is designed to inform health care professionals on what these issues are, and how they may specifically work with a trafficked person, given the trauma that a victim may experience. Health care may be one of the few intersection points where a trafficked person meets someone in the public sphere. Indicators for identifying someone who may be trafficked will be discussed.
BLOCK 6: Saturday, November 13th – 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Abundance from the Ordinary (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Stan Doerr, MS
Location: ED 214/215
Identifying and using local resources to address both nutritional and economic needs of the community. Emphasis will be placed on nutritious tropical plants that can be used as perennial vegetables and have proven health benefits.
Approach to Diarrheal Illness for the Developing Country (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Larry Frick, MD
Location: ED 202/206
The etiology of diarrheal illness in developing countries differs considerably from that in developed countries and requires a different approach for the short-term or new medical missionary. This talk will prepare the medical missionary to evaluate and manage common diarrheal illnesses seen on the mission field, emphasizing clinical evaluation and diagnosis in conditions of limited laboratory availability. The causes of disease commonly seen on the mission field and clinical clues to their diagnosis will be emphasized. Treatment will be discussed with an emphasis on oral rehydration therapy.
Communities Attain MDGs 1-7 Through Comprehensive, Community-Based Primary Health Care (Jamkhed Approach) (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Connie Gates, MPH, BA
Location: ATCR 206
In 2000, the global community through the United Nations adopted ambitious goals to improve the lives of the least advantaged in the world by 2015 – Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Since 1970, the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), Jamkhed, India, has pioneered the philosophy, principles and practice of comprehensive, community-based primary health care. Through this approach of faith-based values, communities have been empowered and transformed, especially the poor and marginalized, women and children. Community members have learned to work together across social divisions and solve problems together for the well-being of the whole village – and have reached all the MDGs. This sustainable approach addresses social determinants and other root causes, including the caste system, harmful traditional practices, status of women and poverty. Caring and sharing communities are formed living in harmony, health and peace – shalom.
Selected Infectious Diseases: Treatment Updates (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHARMACY, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Dan Hussar, RPh, PhD
Location: AT 106/109
There is great concern about the extent to which certain microorganisms have become resistant to the antimicrobial agents to which they were once highly susceptible. At the same time, there has been a significant decline in the number of new antimicrobial agents being developed and marketed. This presentation considers the uses and most important characteristics of the new drugs for the treatment of infectious diseases. Where possible, the properties of the new drugs are compared with those of older drugs available for the same uses. A New Drug Comparison Rating (NDCR) is provided for each of the new antimicrobial agents. Selected infections (e.g., HIV/AIDS, malaria) that are of particular importance in parts of the world in which missions programs are based are considered, as are selected infections (e.g., MRSA, Lyme disease) that represent important challenges in the United States.
Women on the Mission Field (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Ellen Iannoli, MD, MS
Location: ED 213
This session consists of a panel of women physicians who have served or are serving long term in medical missions. They will describe their call to missions, their missions service, and answer questions from the audience regarding issues of particular interest to women medical students and physicians considering medical missions.
Team Leading for Short Term Mission Trips (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Jack Pike, BS, PA-C
Location: WC 231
Session will discuss the nuts, bolts, and challenges of being a team leader, especially as a mid-level provider.
Transforming Neighborhoods from the Inside Out (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Stan Rowland, CMP
Location: ED 210/212
This session will introduce people to how Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is being used in North America; and in seeing urban underserved neighborhoods become transformed from the inside out by using the assets that are found in the neighborhood.
Support of the Indigenous Institutions (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Steve Saint
Location: Chapel
Steve Saint unpacks lessons in how to support the indigenous person and how to support the indigenous institution by equipping them with the resources to own the work of their hands.
Best Practices in Short Term Missionary Nursing (Nurses and Nurse Practitioners)
Speaker: Greg Seager, RN and Candi Seager, RN
Location: ATCR 200/202
This session will look at a Nursing Process approach to address global health problems at the community level. We will look specifically at nursing led cross-cultural health fairs as safe and effective model of short-term healthcare missions. An overview of the literature that supports this short-term mission model will also be reviewed.
I Am Not Fair Trade: A Look At Human Trafficking In The Health Care System Human Trafficking: Victim Identification & Assessment (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Brittney Thomas, BA, MPH
Location: ED 280
Health care settings offer multiple opportunities for victims of human trafficking to be identified and/or rescued. In this session, a brief overview of the phenomenon of human trafficking will be provided. Participants will receive training on victim identification and will be taught concrete steps on what to do if human trafficking is suspected.
Participatory Approaches in Community Development (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Yenenesh Geleta Wolteji, DMin
Location: WC 370
There are various strategies for engaging local communities in the development of their communities. Some of these strategies are effective, while others may just be good ideas. This session will draw upon first-hand experience of working with national and international best practices for sustainable and participatory approached that usher long-term community development. Special emphasis will be given toward public health practices.
Finding Appropriate Medical Resources (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Rick Wood, MS
Location: WC 264
The search for medical equipment and supplies for your mission project seems to be a never ending challenge. We often settle for whatever we can find and have low expectations. Through faith based efforts, this session will provide information on how to evaluate medical projects, determine what specific equipment is needed, and how to find the resources to meet those needs.
BLOCK 7: Saturday, November 13th – 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Blessings of Lifetime Jungle Surgery (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS)
Speaker: Harold Adolph, MD, FACS, FACGS, FICS
Location: WC 231
Many blessing of career surgical missionary service may not be realized and therefore never enjoyed. Besides meeting unmet surgical and spiritual needs you are overwhelmed with a provision, protection, direction, and doing the impossible.
Community Based Development in the Urban Slum (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Garry Brock, BA, MA
Location: WC 370
The course will deal with poverty in the urban slum. Illustrations will come from lessons being learned in Nairobi, Kenya, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, and Bangkok Thailand.
Partnering and preparing: Medical education missions and teaching overseas (REPEAT) (Nurses and Nurse Practitioners)
Speaker: William Cayley, MD, MDiv.
Location: ATCR 200/202
Today in many developing countries, nursing is still yet to be recognized for its significant impact on quality patient care. As a result, these nurses are seen more as subordinates to physicians and lack the opportunities to develop to their full potential as leaders in health care organizations and in the provision of quality patient care.
Community Health Evangelism (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Terry Dalrymple, MDiv
Location: ED 210/212
Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is a breakthrough mission strategy that seamlessly integrates faith and with disease prevention and community-based development. Through CHE, churches are planted and entire communities are lifted out of cycles of poverty and disease. Terry Dalrymple has been instrumental in guiding the expansion of a worldwide CHE movement that now involves more than 250 organizations in 93 countries. In this workshop, Terry will describe how to implement an integrated community health program in rural villages. He will also connect participants with resources and collaborative partners to help build and expand their own programs.
Empowering Nurses for the Advancement of the Profession of Nursing in Uganda through
Collaboration: the Uganda Christian University and Bethel University Story (Nurses and Nurse Practitioners)
Speaker: Karen Drake, PhD, RN, BC
Professor/Director of Nursing-Bethel University Nursing Department
Location: ED 213
Professional nursing is the backbone of healthcare worldwide. Where nursing has not been recognized as a profession with its own knowledge and responsibilities to the public, healthcare has been affected. Bethel University and Uganda Christian University (UCUJ) have collaborated and joined forces to create academic programs in a rich faith-based context to create well prepared nurses for the future of Uganda. Our partnership first created a degree completion program and currently the focus is on preparing nurse leaders at the masters’ level. This partnership has benefited both programs. A large number of Bethel University undergraduate senior nursing students spend January in Uganda, in the future some will spent a semester at UCU. Recently Masters’ student from UCU spent 10 weeks at Bethel’s campus. They took a combined class on Global Health with Bethel students. Bethel students reported the significant contribution of the UCU students to their learning. A number of Bethel faculty (and a few from elsewhere) are involved in teaching in the masters’ program taught modularly and online. This collaboration is empowering nurse leaders (particularly nurse educators) to advance the profession of nursing in Uganda. We hope to draw students from other parts of Africa to join in the masters’ program.
Catalyzing Changes in Health Related Behavior (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Dan Fountain, MD, MPH
Location: AT 106/109
This talk will examine cultural dynamics and work through the layers of culture from the outer layer of behavior down through the layers of values and beliefs to the core of worldview assumptions. Customs and health-related behavior derive from the basic assumptions about God, humankind, nature, and the origin of disease. Only when these worldview assumptions are understood and entry-points found to bring in new ideas can sustainable behavior change occur. Examples will be given.
Worms and the Medical Missionary (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Larry Frick, MD
Location: ED 202/206
A practical review of parasitic diseases uncommonly seen in the developed world but commonly encountered on the mission field will be presented to help re-familiarize the new or short- term medical missionary with these diseases. The emphasis will be on practical diagnosis and management in settings lacking easy laboratory access.
Potential Dangers Associated with Treatment and Prophylaxis of Malaria (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Ron Herman, RPh, PhD
Location: FH 111
Malaria prevention and prompt treatment often requires the use of effective antimalarials that many practitioners do not routinely use. These medications are not benign and do have potential adverse effects and drug interactions that we should be aware of and proactive in preventing. This session will review potential adverse effects, drug interactions and the risk of developing resistance for the current prophylaxis agents and the current treatment regimens of malaria.
How to Survive in the Bush (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Cathy & Brett Hoelzer, MPH, PA-C
Location: ED 280
Some practitioners will end up living in some areas that still lack basic infrastructures. Surviving such extremes can be quite challenging in many ways. Medical practitioners have to practice medicine with little or no diagnostic help other than their own clinical skills. Their families will have to learn to survive without electricity, internet, running water, or personal space. The speaker and her husband will share from their own personal experiences of living 4 years in Southern Sudan on how they lived and did more than just “merely survive.”
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care: Preaching to the Choir and the Sex Workers (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Ben Homan, MA
Location: Chapel
This session will address how the Church can be mobilized toward practical responses in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and for the care of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS. Examples and case studies from Food for the Hungry and other ministries will emphasize how grassroots efforts can be informed by proven strategies that have measureable and multiplicative effect.
Nuts and Bolts of an International Medical Missions Rotation (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Daniel Tolan, MD
Location: Six Plex
The nuts and bolts for students of an international health-care short term mission rotation. Choosing, preparing for, and successful completion of a short-term mission opportunity. This is for nursing, pre-professional, medical, dental, pharmacy, public health and other allied health-care students and post-graduate residents. Purpose: Acquaint the professional student with (1) Blessings, advantages and benefits of an international rotation especially in a mission setting. (2) Preparing personally, including spiritual, emotional and academic preparation, for the best experience.(3) Process of choosing where to go, permission from your school, funding, establishing mentors and other preparations to gain the most from the experience. (4) The importance of post-trip debriefing and mentoring while looking toward the future.
Introduction to International Human Trafficking (AAFP, CME, NURSING, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, & PSYCHOLOGY)
Speaker: Katherine Welch, MD
Location: ATCR 206
While not a new problem, human trafficking is now a globally acknowledged issue of our times. Even so, many people do not have a solid grasp of what exactly it is, how it happens, and what the core issues are in order to counter it. An overview of human trafficking internationally, including to/from the USA as well as outside the States is presented. Some specific examples of how human trafficking may intersect the life and work of health care professionals are given, but more depth on that topic is given in other talks.
Faculty
Harold Paul Adolph-MD, FACS, FACGS, FICS
Distinguished Global Professor of Toledo University
Lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American College of General Surgery
President of St. Luke's Health Care Foundation
Sebring, FL
Jeff Barrows, DO
Executive Director
Gracehaven
Zanesfield, OH
Christine Birnie, RPh, PhD
Pharmacist
Associate Professor and Chair
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Fairport, NY
Garry Brock, BA, MA
Northwest Christian University, Missions and Ministry
University of Oregon, Anthropology
Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Missions, Missiology
Director of Urban Poor Development and Marketplace Ministries
Indianapolis, IN
Patrick Brunson, RPh
Pharmacy Manager
IMB/SBC missionary 92-04
Elkmont, AL
Robyn K. Hale-Bullock, MSN, RN
Staff Development Coordinator
Women & Children Services
Indianapolis, IN
William Cayley, MD, MDiv
Associate Professor
Augusta, WI
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine
University of Missouri-Kansas City
President
Institute for International Medicine
Kansas City, MO
Duane Crumb, AA, BA
Director
HIVHope, an outreach of NMSI
Fort Myers, FL
Stan Doerr, MS
President/CEO
ECHO
Ft Myers, FL
Rick Donlon, MD
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
Christ Community Health Services
Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine
The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Memphis, TN
Terry Dalrymple, MDiv
Coordinator
Global CHE Network
Senior Consultant
LifeWind International
Debbie Doty, MA, BS
Deputy Director, Africa
Tigard, OR
Karen Drake, PhD, RN, BC
Professor/Director of Nursing
Bethel University Nursing Department
St. Paul, MN
Sharon Falkenheimer , MD, MA, MPH
Fellow
Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
Trinity International University
Deerfield, IL
Dan Fountain, MD, MPH
Director
Global Health Training Program
Assistant Professor
King College
Bristol, TN
Larry Frick, MD
Director of Medical Missions
GO InterNational
Wilmore, KY
Connie Gates, MPH, BA
Director
Jamkhed International – North America
Carrboro, NC
Brent Hambrick, MD
Director MedMissions
Highland Village, TX
Ron Herman, RPh, PhD
Professor, Clinical Director
Iowa Drug Information Network, Division of Drug Information Service
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Phil Hissom, MDiv
Executive Director of Polis Institute
Orlando, FL
Harold Harder, PhD
President
Blessings International
Broken Arrow, OK
Brett Hoelzer, MPH, PA-C
Medical Missionary
Ramona, CA
Cathy Hoelzer, MPH, PA-C
Medical Missionary
Ramona, CA
Ben Homan, MA
President of John Stott Ministries
Former President of Food for the Hungry
Scottsdale, AZ
Andrew H. Huang, MD
Resident Physician
Division of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA
Daniel A. Hussar, Rph, PhD
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Philadelphia, PA
Ellen Iannoli, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Anesthesiologist
Honeoye Falls, NY
Dr. Ravi Jayakaran, BVS, AH, MD
MAP International’s Global programs
Senior Director Global Programs
Atlanta, GA
Julie Kidd, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist
Charlottesville, VA
Walter L. Larimore, MD, DABFP, FAAFP
Visiting Faculty and Clinical Instructor
In His Image Family Medicine
Medical Director
Mission Medical Clinic
Colorado Springs, CO
Rev. James A. Lindgren, MD, FAAP, FACP, FAEP
Board Certified Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
President and Founder
Window of Hope
Chairman
U.S. Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
Ordained, Arizona District Assemblies of God
Anthem, AZ
Larry H. Lytle, MD
Area Director
Columbus, Ohio, Christian Medical and Dental Associations
Columbus, OH
Rev. John McVay, MDiv
Chief of Staff
Tulsa, OK
David J. Muhovich, MS, MPH, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
Bethel University
St Paul, MN
Justin Narducci, MBA
International Development Professional Rank
Director of Partnerships and Resources
Tempe, AZ
April Perry, RN, APN, MEd
Clinical Associate
Duke University School of Nursing
Durham, NC
Jack Pike, BS, PA-C
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
Quinnipiac University
Senior Physician Assistant, Cardiac Surgery
Middletown, CT
Stan Rowland, CMP
Facilitator Collaborative for Neighborhood Transformation
Glendale, AZ
Steve Saint
Founder of ITECH USA
Dunnellon, FL
Candi D. Seager, RN
Program Coordinator
The Christian Health Service
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX
Gregory D. Seager, RN
Program Coordinator
The Christian Health Service
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX
Suzie Snyder, MD, MACP, FAAP
Director of Member Care & Affiliation
CMF International
Indianapolis, IN
Nancy Staible, PA-C
David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics)
CEO
Christian Medical & Dental Associations
Bristol, TN
Bruce Steffes, MD, MBA, FACS, FWACS, FCS (ECSA)
CEO
Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons
Linden, NC
Brittney Thomas, BA, MPH
Kentucky State Director for the "Not For Sale Campaign"
Community Health Liaison for "Paragon Family Practice"
Lexington, KY
Donald F. Thompson, MD, MPH & TM
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland
Director
Global Health Outreach, Christian Medical & Dental Associations
Bristol, TN
Phil Thornton, PhD
Missions Consultant with Global Impact Missions
Nicholasville, KY
Daniel Tolan, MD
Associate Director
CMDA Center for Medical Missions
Christian Medical & Dental Associations
Bristol, TN
Wagdy W. Wahba, PhD, RPh
Associate Professor
Interim Associate Dean
Palm Beach Atlantic University, School of Pharmacy
West Palm Beach, Florida
Katherine Welch, MD
Medical Director
Global Health Promise
Fort Wayne, IN
Yenenesh Geleta Wolteji, DMin
Urban Transformation, M.A. – Rural Social Development
Lecturer
Director of Programs
Life in Abundance International
Tempe, AZ
Richard S. Wood, MS
TECH President
Midland, MI
Peter Yorgin, MD, FAAP
Professor
Clinical Director of Pediatric Nephrology
Continuing Education Credit
Physician Credit - The University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education office designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing Credit - This program has been approved by the Kentucky Board of Nursing for a total of 8.4 contact hours for the following workshop dates, 1) 1.2 credit hours on 11/11/10, provider number 3-0046-01-2012-155; 2) 4.8 credit hours on 11/12/10, provider number 3-0046-01-2012-156; 3) 2.4 credit hours on 11/13/10, provider number 3-0046-01-2012-157; through the University of Louisville School of Nursing, expiration date December 31, 2012. The Kentucky Board of Nursing approval of an individual nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program content. Participants must attend entire session, provide license and SS#, and complete evaluation to receive contact hours.
Nurse Practitioner - This program is approved for 7.0 contact hours of continuing education by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Program ID 1010310.
Psychologist - The Kentucky Board of Psychology has approved this program for 7.0 Continuing Education Units.
AAFP - Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.
Pharmacist - Continuing pharmacy education credit pending Kentucky Board of Pharmacy approval.
Registration
Registration Fee:
Physicians, $200.00
Nurses, $200.00
Career Missionary, $65.00
Student, $65.00
Exhibitor, $65.00
To Register, Contact Julie Snipp: 502-253-8069 or Julie Snipp
Refund Policy
Requests for cancellation must be submitted to Julie Snipp
Parking
Free parking is available to attendees on campus at Southeast Christian Church.
Driving Directions
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Learning Objectives & Outcomes
OBJECTIVES
1) Recommend medication substitution.
2) Describe how to set-up short term clinic outreach including formulary, cheapest medications, dental and optometry equipment and cheapest eyeglasses.
3) Provide patient counseling in another language.
4) Discuss intravenous solutions and antibiotic ointments.
5) Identify care, treatment, needs of children, cultural concerns and religious issues concerning HIV/AIDS.
6) Describe how to set-up a comprehensive model of community based health care that incorporates holist measures and cross-cultural approaches including issues of social determinants such as the caste system, harmful traditional practices, status of women and poverty.
7) Discuss practicing surgery in developing countries.
8) Describe how to take a spiritual history of patients.
9) Cite examples of how to empower community development.
10) Examine how to invite the homeless to join in service projects that benefit the community.
11) Analyze the WHO/UNICEF child health standards as they apply to long and short term healthcare assignments.
12) Discuss medical care in disaster conditions, the issues related to providing disaster medical care in the third world and the seven Standards of Excellence in Short-term mission.
13) Define Domestic minor sex trafficking, discuss the predisposing factors, recruiting techniques, mindset of the victim, indications of DMST, what to do if one encounters DMST.
14) Raise awareness of human trafficking.
15) Examine human trafficking in the USA and globally including health consequences, how it happens, core issues and how to counteract it.
16) Plan and execute a well run pharmacy during a short term medical trip.
17) Recognize the potential of the practice of nursing in a developing country.
18) Explain how poverty and health are closely related.
19) Determine ethical guidelines and practices for dealing with unlimited needs, limited resources of personnel, equipment and supplies.
20) Assist the target population medically and from a holistic approach.
21) Discuss how to become a healthcare professional in the mission field.
22) Cite the issues concerning counterfeit drugs including the magnitude of the problem, impact, prevention measures, US law and current CA law and internet pharmacies.
23) Critique setting up a culturally relevant and attractive antenatal program.
24) Examine the potential for harm associated with healthcare missions and develop strategies that mitigate harm, and improve community health.
25) Explore the obstacles to healthcare provision in developing countries and how to overcome many of them.
26) Review the literature regarding secular medical missions, motivations and lines of dialogue between secular and faith based medical missions.
27) Explore the priorities, challenges and risks encountered in disaster relief work based on the AMA’s Disaster Life Support Courses.
28) Review how to treat chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
29) List partner groups needed for successful medical missions.
30) Discuss three common challenges for medical missions to be effective.
31) Improve strategies to support planning and execution of short-term and long-term medical missions.
32) Explore WHO guidelines relevant to the use of oral medications in medical missions.
33) Evaluate the need, training in their use, and professional vs. non-professional use of an interpreter and translator.
34) Appraise evidence based, market based, complimentary and alternative medicine.
35) Discuss the faith factor and the relationship to increased health benefits.
36) Describe how the healthcare professional integrates good science with a faith-based worldview.
37) Review the principles and practices of a great short term healthcare/medical mission experience.
38) Examine the development of a comprehensive and sustainable medical health service operated by the Congolese church including a teaching hospital, school, primary healthcare, team approach, whole person healthcare and an integrated approach for coping with HIV/AIDS epidemic.
39) Identify local resources to address nutritional needs including tropical plants that can be used as perennial vegetables for the community.
40) Review the etiology of diarrheal illness in developing countries.
41) Explore how certain microorganisms have become resistant to the antimicrobial agents to which they were once highly susceptible.
42) Consider the decline in the development of new antimicrobial agents.
43) Evaluate the characteristics of new drugs to treat infectious diseases.
44) Examine female physicians’ issues in medical missions.
45) Cite challenges of being a team leader of a medical mission.
46) Summarize a nursing process approach to addressing global health problems at the community level.
47) Realize the potential of nurses as leaders in healthcare organizations and in the provision of quality patient care.
48) Organize medical supplies and equipment for medical mission trips.
49) Learn how to survive and thrive in the bush.
50) Review Parasitic Diseases.
OUTCOMES
1) Adhere to clinical guidelines for patients when diagnosing, treating, and managing diseases of poverty in developing countries.
2) Prescribe for adults and children appropriate medications for diseases in developing countries.
3) Utilize available supply chains for drugs and equipment.
4) Formulate ways to access a laboratory.
5) Summarize the protocol definition of human trafficking; report human trafficking and diagnose, treat and manage the health issues of victims of human trafficking.
6) Train local volunteers by emphasizing holistic measures, self help and use of local resources to assume responsibility for: delivering certain aspects of basic health care to patients and identification of community health and spiritual needs.
7) Produce health education campaigns on health issues to raise awareness about national programs.
8) Develop community finances for local health programs by raising financial resources from within the community to support health care activities.
9) Incorporate sustainability by creating a model of community health care that includes remedies for dealing with caste systems, harmful traditional practices, status of woman and poverty, etc.
10) Instill dignity and ownership.
Special Services
If you need special accommodations due to a disability, or for an alternative form of course materials, please contact Julie Snipp: 502-253-8069 or Julie Snipp at least 14 days prior to the date of this program. Continuing Health Sciences Education fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof.
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of Louisville and Southeast Christian Church. The University of Louisville is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
