WINDOW INTO A MISSION MED4 is a medical and surgical mission organization serving the healthcare needs of women in developing countries. MED4 was born in 2023 from it’s parent organization, Med4OurWorld, a non-profit medical and surgical organization that served the healthcare needs of women ...
For how long can humans survive in space? What are the effects of spending months under zero gravity? With more extended missions, and an increased number of civilians traveling to space, there is increased interest in understanding what happens to our brains when we leave earth. (more…) ...
Possibly, you do not have any preconceived ideas about what is involved in medical missions. You may be asking yourself what is a medical missions trip, who goes, and how do you decide where to go and with whom. How long you are gone and how dangerous is it? Do you get paid to go...
It’s important for med students to retain their essential identities. and sometimes volunteering can be a way to stay rooted, Goodell says. When balancing medical school and volunteer work, experts say it’s important to find missions you’re passionate about. Volun...
Short-term Medical Missions (STMMs) have become one avenue for extending healthcare delivery in countries such as Ghana. Historically in Ghana, large numbers of people have engaged in short term medical missions yearly. They come primarily from High Income Countries (HICs) to provide medical ...
Academic medical centers employ a large number of specialists who see pediatric patients13,14 and operate with missions directed toward caring for low-income patients.15-17 In addition, AMCs may be less sensitive to Medicaid-CHIP payment levels because of partial financial support of tuition, ...
To facilitate consistent safety measures during airborne rescue missions, Lischke et al. used MedSim to exercise communication, decision-making, and situational awareness [38]. Their pilot project introduced rich contextual information to the overview of the emergency scenario using terrain and helicopter...
That's up significantly from 69,718 med school students in 2002, per the AAMC. However, the increases are unlikely to fully address the scarcity of doctors predicted through 2034. The class sizes, enrollment and number of medical schools are “not g...
Around winter break of last year, my friend asked if I would go with her on one of those overseas medical missions. In fact, going abroad for this purpose had not crossed my mind until she brought it up. I was not sure that I wanted to go, with the thought that everything I could...
Science curriculum, especially pre-med curriculum, is demanding and rigorous, and it trains science students to excel in empirical thinking and assessment. Sometimes, when asked to write a personal essay, hard core science students feel the rug pulled out from under them. Are you more confident...