Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educators
One of the challenges facing international healthcare missionaries is that of maintaining up-to-date knowledge and staying current with professional certification. Since 1978, annual programs by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations have offered professional continuing education to thousands...
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| author | Lyubov D Slashcheva Mark A Strand Ruth E VanReken Collin Sanford J Dwight Phillips Gloria Halverson |
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| description | One of the challenges facing international healthcare missionaries is that of maintaining up-to-date knowledge and staying current with professional certification. Since 1978, annual programs by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations have offered professional continuing education to thousands of US healthcare professionals serving as missionaries in the regions of Africa, Asia, and, in more recent years, globally. In addition, conference programming is designed to prepare, train, and support healthcare missionaries to, in turn, serve as educators in their places of ministry. The program is designed for both professional education and personal encouragement. Utilizing historical documents from program facilitation and interviews from those involved with its implementation, this paper describes the history, vision, and favorable quantitative growth and qualitative impact on participants. The program continues to grow as healthcare missionaries are educated near their places of service, while reinforcing their own roles as educators. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12f8ab88d2ae442d892ff35dfc3fff162022-12-21T19:03:00ZengHealth for All NationsChristian Journal for Global Health2167-24152016-01-0132273710.15566/cjgh.v3i2.131131Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educatorsLyubov D Slashcheva0Mark A Strand1Ruth E VanReken2Collin Sanford3J Dwight Phillips4Gloria Halverson5DDS,Resident/Fellow, University of Iowa Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Iowa, USAPhd, MPH, Professor, College of Pharmacy and Department of Public Health, North Dakota State UniversityBSN, Co-Founder, Families in Global TransitionDMD, Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, Farmington, CTMD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MNMD, Professor Emeritus, Medical College of Wisconsin, Madison, WIOne of the challenges facing international healthcare missionaries is that of maintaining up-to-date knowledge and staying current with professional certification. Since 1978, annual programs by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations have offered professional continuing education to thousands of US healthcare professionals serving as missionaries in the regions of Africa, Asia, and, in more recent years, globally. In addition, conference programming is designed to prepare, train, and support healthcare missionaries to, in turn, serve as educators in their places of ministry. The program is designed for both professional education and personal encouragement. Utilizing historical documents from program facilitation and interviews from those involved with its implementation, this paper describes the history, vision, and favorable quantitative growth and qualitative impact on participants. The program continues to grow as healthcare missionaries are educated near their places of service, while reinforcing their own roles as educators.http://journal.cjgh.org/index.php/cjgh/article/view/131/325Continuing healthcare educationInternational healthcare educationMedical missionary support |
| spellingShingle | Lyubov D Slashcheva Mark A Strand Ruth E VanReken Collin Sanford J Dwight Phillips Gloria Halverson Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educators Christian Journal for Global Health Continuing healthcare education International healthcare education Medical missionary support |
| title | Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educators |
| title_full | Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educators |
| title_fullStr | Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educators |
| title_full_unstemmed | Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educators |
| title_short | Continuing medical and dental education on the global stage: the nexus of supporting international Christian healthcare workers and developing educators |
| title_sort | continuing medical and dental education on the global stage the nexus of supporting international christian healthcare workers and developing educators |
| topic | Continuing healthcare education International healthcare education Medical missionary support |
| url | http://journal.cjgh.org/index.php/cjgh/article/view/131/325 |
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