Abstract
Some involved in medical missions suggest that expatriate physicians seeing individual patients in the developing world represents an unsustainable paradigm. As an alternative way for foreign doctors to conduct medical missions, healthcare education is advocated. Health education as missions represents an important and powerful tool to use in reaching the world through medicine. However, physicians who practice seeing individual patients may be best positioned to educate national doctors and health workers. Also, the example and commands of Christ compel Christian physicians to care for the global poor and needy. Clinical medicine therefore represents a vital modality to properly teach medicine in missions.
Highlights
The proper collegeMark Croucha a MD, Public Health Officer, Staff Physician, Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, In His Image International, Papua New Guinea “The hospital is the only proper College in which to rear a true disciple of Aesculapius.”[1]
I recently read the latest edition of the Christian Journal for Global Health (November 2016)
The greater need is not addressed by temporary visitors or retiring physicians who move overseas to teach high income country (HIC) medicine, but rather physicians who are willing to shoulder clinical burdens seeing patients and learning all they can about a country's culture and illnesses
Summary
Mark Croucha a MD, Public Health Officer, Staff Physician, Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, In His Image International, Papua New Guinea “The hospital is the only proper College in which to rear a true disciple of Aesculapius.”[1]. A blood test showed that his HIV had become resistant to his medicine. I explained to Endy that he was about to die from AIDS, and I was powerless to save his life. He understood, and while his uncle and sister cried, Endy showed a steely determination. While his uncle and sister cried, Endy showed a steely determination He had accepted Christ during the course of his illness and felt he would soon leave his earthly form and enjoy a new, completely healthy body. Training in a U.S medical school and residency could not have adequately prepared me for this kind of medicine
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