Summer Mission Opportunities
Podcast Interview with recent WPCP alumni Matt Lynch:
June 16 - July 13, 2024
Whole Person Care Preceptorship
Overview
At the annual Whole Person Care Preceptorship (WPCP) held in Southern California, you’ll receive professional training to ethically and sensitively assess and address the spiritual needs of your patients. Weekly you’ll work with and learn from seasoned Christian physicians and healthcare professionals who regularly integrate their faith into their patient care in a variety of specialties and settings. Plus you’ll have ample opportunities to do the same with real patients in both clinical and hospital situations.
Most importantly, you’ll grow and reconnect with God and become better prepared to lead colleagues spiritually. You will enjoy ample time for personal devotionals and learn from experts in the fields of personal ministry, bioethics, apologetics, and theology.
As you serve and enjoy the incredible attractions of California, you’ll build lasting relationships and community with like-minded students and return to school rejuvenated and refreshed. The WPCP is a joint venture of Medical Strategic Network, Cru, and Loma Linda University Medical Center.
Dates
June 16 - July 13, 2024
Location & Housing
The Preceptorship takes place in Redlands, CA, a quaint historic town 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
You will be housed at the University of Redlands in the Brockton Student Apartments. Each unit is furnished and has a common living area, kitchen, four individual single bedrooms, and two full baths. Linens are provided. An onsite laundry and free high speed internet access will be available.
All meals (included in your Preceptorship fee) will be provided in either the university cafeteria (all you care to eat), through local caterers, or at restaurants.
Various Dates in 2023
CMDA Global Health Outreach
For additional summer opportunities, check out CMDA's Global Health Outreach Trips! Each year, we send 45 to 55 teams around the world to countries including El Salvador, East Africa, I*dia, the Pacific, Nicaragua, Central Asia, the Middle East and many others. We encourage you to browse through our available trip opportunities to find the trip best suited to fit your needs. Unless noted as a specialty team, all trips welcome physicians, dentists, dental assistants, hygienists, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, optometrists, nurses, techs, students, interpreters and non-medical volunteers.
For more information, email us or check out our trip opportunities.
June 12 - 24, 2023
Beacon 360 Missional Healthcare Mentorship
OBJECTIVE: To provide medical students with an immersion experience in urban medical missions, allowing them to further explore and apply healthcare from a Christian worldview
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
The Missional Healthcare Mentorship program includes:
- Shadowing in-office clinical sessions with our internists, pediatricians, ob/gyn’s, and podiatrist
- Community outreach opportunities with our Outreach team, as well as local churches
- Participating in health education outreaches to underserved populations
- Dedicated didactic mentoring sessions will explore the following topics:
- How to apply the Word to your faith, your work and your calling
- “How do we bring Jesus into the exam room? The hospital? The classroom?”
- Addressing ethical issues in the “public square”
- Personal spiritual accountability and resiliency-building
For further information contact:
Arianna Haynes
SCHEDULE:
The program will begin on Sunday (June 12th) with a welcome program and dinner. During the week (Monday-Friday), the educational program will be divided into three sections: clinical experience, community outreach, and didactic learning. The typical weekday for participants will run from 9:00am - 8:00pm, with activities divided up among the three key sections of our program.
COST: The tuition fee of Beacon’s Missional Healthcare Mentorship program is $985, which includes the cost of Beacon’s learning program and meals. For more information about receiving school credit, contact Dr. Janet Kim at [email protected].
APPLICATION: If you would like to be considered for Beacon’s Missional Healthcare Mentorship, fill out our online application here. The deadline to be considered for this program is Friday, May 27th. In addition to the questionnaire, we will need you to provide two references (one personal and one professional) along with their contact information. We will then contact your references with a quick form to fill out so they can share how they see this program being of benefit to you. We will notify you of your acceptance by Wednesday, June 1st.
We look forward to being a part of your journey into the medical profession as a Christian!
June 21- July 12, 2025
The Philadelphia Summer Medical Institute, 2025
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Website: mcophilly.org/smi-philadelphia/
SMI Philadelphia is a unique urban medical outreach program that has trained Christian healthcare students for over three decades to integrate their faith with their career and center their identities in Christ during their academic years. Run by Medical Campus Outreach Philadelphia (mcophilly.org) in partnership with Esperanza Health Center, a Christian, federally qualified health center located in Hispanic North Philadelphia (esperanzahealth.com), this intensive urban-immersion program brings approximately 18-20 Christian health profession students to provide door-to-door health education, community referrals and health screens for blood pressure, diabetes risk and more in community neighborhoods while teaching students to appropriately share the gospel in the healthcare context through conversation and prayer with those they meet.
Working daily in the homes and neighborhoods, students practice hands-on patient care and learn directly about the social, cultural, spiritual and economic factors of health. They enjoy the rich fellowship of living together in community at our church base location (with separate men's and women's wings) surrounded by the neighborhoods they serve. They receive medical, community and evangelism training during orientation and work in partnership with area churches, which they attend each Sunday. Teams are accompanied by local interpreters, and partner churches provide spiritual follow up to those in the community who request it. Students will each spend a day shadowing health care providers at Esperanza to observe an effective model of Christian primary care (third- and fourth-year medical students and other upper-year students may participate in SMI as an academic rotation, pending approval and availability).
Spiritual growth and discipleship are also developed outside of the work day through small group Bible study, daily debriefing, twice-weekly teaching on biblical foundations, daily prayer and worship and breakout didactic teaching sessions. Christian clinicians (SMI "faculty") from all healthcare fields volunteer to work alongside students during the outreaches, providing valuable relational mentoring. Faculty also teach students on relevant topics during orientation, breakout teaching and panel discussions known as "Institute Days," and the final "Return Training" at the program's conclusion. Students support-raise or provide $1750 to help cover program expenses, and are given detailed information and help during this process.
SMI Philadelphia applications are due: Feb 1 (early decision) and March 1 (regular decision). Applying students will be contacted 2-4 weeks after those deadlines regarding their results. Applications after March 1 can be considered. Contact the SMI director at [email protected] for questions, information and the application link.
Go to http://mcophilly.org/smi-philadelphia/ for information, the application link, FAQs and the student blog.
Philadelphia Summer Medical Institute
[email protected]
https://mcophilly.org/smi-philadelphia/
Summer
Lawndale Christian Health Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Website: Lawndale Internships
he Lawndale Summer Medical Project is a 4-5 week summer program in which 4th year (senior) pre-med/pre-midlevel students and 1st year medical students have the opportunity to work alongside Christian clinicians and help to serve a medically underserved community. The program was developed in 2002 and 2003 in conjunction with the Christian Medical & Dental Association (CMDA) and Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF).
LSMP students live with host families and work in the Lawndale community to experience total immersion within the community. LSMP focuses on chronic care patients who do not have access routine care, as well as hosting health screenings at various community health fairs.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
First year medical students, senior college students interested in becoming an MD or midlevel provider, or recent college graduates planning to become an MD or midlevel provider in the future.
Medically interested undergraduate students seeking a summer internship experience at Lawndale Christian Health Center can consider applying through Intervarsity Christian Fellowship's Chicago Urban Program (CUP). LCHC partners with CUP to accept a select number of undergraduate interns placed at the health center. Visit CUP's website for more information.
Recommendation form can be downloaded here: Recommendation Form.
“Good Neighboring” with Cahaba Urban in Birmingham, AL
The New Testament is a witness to the sorts of communities Christ birthed and the Apostle Paul, etc. planted. These communities were characterized by their radical abandonment to God and by their entirely new Christ-infused ethic (in the Graeco-Roman world) of care and compassion for one another, for neighbors, and for strangers. They were a good neighbor in the manner of the Good Samaritan who, though he was away from home, extended surprising care to even his enemies. Today we sojourn in a world that:
- believes hospitals (literal meaning: “a place for travelers”) must be sterile, impersonal, and often degrading buildings rather than homes filled with Christ’s love and opened to neighbors and strangers.
- believes “health” means the opposite of disease rather than the shalom of God
- believes we can overcome suffering and death rather than understanding the meaning of suffering and death in the Biblical narrative.
We believe in the possibility of again being communities of Christ-followers, covenanted together to care for one another, for our neighbors, and for strangers, building for the Kingdom of God in this world. We invite interested students to come alongside us with the hope of being refined as a Good Neighbor who is an ambassador of the Good News.
We are a community largely of medical folks who are very interested in loving neighbors and the nations who are “underserved.” Students will live in our guesthouse down the street from our clinic with the family of one of our family medicine faculty members. Most of our family medicine residents and faculty live in proximity in the neighborhood as well. The student’s time will be split between working in the clinic and spending time in the community.
This rotation is available year-round, on a rolling basis, and subject to availability in the guesthouse or other home. It is available for all medical students and even for select pre-medical students.
- Please visit our website: https://cahabafamilymedicine.com/
- To go directly to the application form at the button below.
- If you are a pre-medical or non-medical school student please select “other” when prompted
- If you would like to chat more about spending time with Cahaba Urban feel free to email Dr. Dakota Price, email [email protected]
Summer
Cahaba Rural Summer Mission Experience
Behold, I am about to do something new;
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness
and streams in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
God reiterates in Isaiah 43 His loving pursuit of His people and in the beautiful picture in verse 19 reveals His deliberate action to bring healing to a land in need.
Remarkable health disparities exist in rural populations. Limited access to medical care, mental health services and costly medications yield poorer health outcomes for rural communities. Furthermore, rural and international communities share many aspects of medical need and often benefit from clinicians with a broad skill set.
Cahaba Medical Care exists to address those disparities and provide quality medical care to the underserved rural community of Centreville, AL. We recognize and agree with Isaiah 43:11 that there is no Savior but God - healing only comes through Jesus Christ. And, to love like He loves, we strive to follow the example of Christ by engaging our community meaningfully with the gift of medicine in His name. Students' one on one clinical experiences with attendings and residents grow a global Kingdom perspective in our rural community.
All interested medical and premedical students are welcome to apply for 2 or 4 week rotations.
Rotations are granted throughout the year based on availability through the application Please visit our website: https://cahabafamilymedicine.com/
- To go directly to the application form below.
- If you are a pre-medical or non-medical school student please select “other” when prompted
Please email Dr. Jonathan Peters at [email protected] or Dr. Jamie Bishop, email [email protected] with questions.