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.
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.
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.
How do we communicate the Truth of Scriptures to the 80% of the oral learners in the world who can not read or prefer not to read? Do people say no to the Biblical content, or do they really need help to understand? Accurate Bible Stories come alive to patients and open the Scriptures to a lost and dying world. Explore wonderful oral style communication methods that empower medical workers and assistants to share Bible stories in natural conversational ways. Learn to put these Bible stories in your heart pocket and tell them while attending to patients, visiting those in need, or anywhere daily life leads. Missionaries say, "We are seeing results like we have never known", "People understand" and "lives are changed in ways I never imagined.
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 God's provision, protection, direction, and His doing of the impossible.
