INMED Crisis Response Training
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The Joplin Tornado of May, 2011 on caught many of us well-intentioned but unprepared to respond effectively. I, for one, felt a deep sense of pain over the catastrophe unfolding just 100 miles a way. But I also realized frustration ...
Introducing ACIHE
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today’s citizenry and healthcare profession students are more keenly aware of the needs of marginalized people. Educational institutions are rapidly developing curriculum and field experiences to match community and student expectations. As a result of such demand, however, health educators ...
You Must Help My Baby Now!
Sunday, January 15th, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »JOPLIN, MO — The warning “Execute Condition Gray!” blared through the halls of St. John’s Regional Medical Center. Personnel per protocol began rolling patients’ beds into the hallways. However, this was no drill. Near the ER’s glass doors Kevin Kikta, ...
Wisdom and Valor: John Testrake
Saturday, January 7th, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In 1989 I arrived in Luanda, the capital city of Angola, to begin making good on my commitment to assist the churches in interior city of Huambo as they launched a healthcare project. Those were wild days of civil war: ...
Integrity Under Fire
Saturday, December 31st, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The highlight of my INMED adventure is the exemplary people whom I meet in the course of "equipping healthcare professionals to serve the forgotten." These include individuals living sacrificial lives in distant nations, students in the ...
A Window Into Our Souls
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A sobering scene of heaven is described by Jesus in the book of Matthew chapter 25: "All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from ...
What People Group Is Most Distressed?
Saturday, December 17th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In our era of natural disasters, social unrest, and economic turmoil, this question is more than academic. We want our personal lives and our organized efforts to be significant, even virtuous. A first step is to ...
Compassion Amid Commerce
Saturday, December 10th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Non-profit organizations are an unusual phenomena in China, best known of course for it's rapidly growing economy and keen business sense. For the last three weeks I've enjoyed the privilege of being with Liaoning International General Health Trainings - better ...
J. Hudson Taylor & The Power Of Role Models
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As a college student I was inspired and challenged by the life of J. Hudson Taylor. He was a medical student in England in the mid-1850s, who against great odds moved to Shanghai to share the message ...
Diploma in International Medicine & Public Health - DIM&PH
Friday, November 25th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »This month INMED introduces the Diploma is International Medicine & Public Health - DIM&PH. For some time select educational institutions have offered diplomas in tropical medicine and hygiene. INMED and myself have carefully looked at such programs ...