Missions

Helpful hints

Seek God's purpose for your participation in medical missions. Specifically, seek Him in finding a medical preceptorship.
Start planning early.
Investigate funding sources.
Look into different mission organizations.
Communicate with your preceptor about time, living conditions, expectations, costs required by you, travel arrangement, travel arrangement, immunuzations, etc.
Talk to other CMDA members who have worked in your proposed missionary setting.
Look over information on medical missions available from Med Send or your own medical school.

Your own church (consider giving a talk about your experiences after the mission)
Your denomination (for example the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board)
CMDA
MAP/Reader's Digest
The Duke Chapel
Your Dean (The UNC Dean's Office has some funding for student rotations, and Duke has the Davison Scholarship).
the International Medical Student Studies Program of the American Medical Association's Department of Medical Student Services