At 5 am, Wednesday, April 22, 2015, I will start the road trip from Grand Rapids, MI to Atlanta, GA for the CCHF conference.
This conference is designed to equip Christian health care workers with the knowledge necessary to "Encourage excellent, compassionate health care, ministering to spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of people and their communities."
Some of the workshops I would like to attend include: "Integrated Spiritual Health in a Primary Care Environment", "For Those Who Would be the Future of a Movement", "HOPE: In Theory and (Medical) Practice", and "A Practical Guide to Depression", "Journeys in Rural Healthcare", "Treating Chronic Pain in a High Risk Environment", "Handling Challenges to Your Missions and Values", and "Bioethics: Intersection of Medicine, Technology, Law, and Theology." Many of these workshops even count towards Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits if I were to need them at this point in time!
This conference is designed to equip Christian health care workers with the knowledge necessary to "Encourage excellent, compassionate health care, ministering to spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of people and their communities."
Some of the workshops I would like to attend include: "Integrated Spiritual Health in a Primary Care Environment", "For Those Who Would be the Future of a Movement", "HOPE: In Theory and (Medical) Practice", and "A Practical Guide to Depression", "Journeys in Rural Healthcare", "Treating Chronic Pain in a High Risk Environment", "Handling Challenges to Your Missions and Values", and "Bioethics: Intersection of Medicine, Technology, Law, and Theology." Many of these workshops even count towards Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits if I were to need them at this point in time!
Amidst learning from the many experts on different facets of health care through the workshops, I will be volunteering for the CCHF conference staff for 6 hours as well as "working" a table for Oasis of Hope. I use quotations because I am privileged to represent our clinic by explaining what we do and what I've learned throughout my internship here.
Topics of conversation will vary, but will be based around the following (which will be part of our display):
Topics of conversation will vary, but will be based around the following (which will be part of our display):
In addition to having the above information available for those interested, I will also be passing out baggies with appointment cards, band-aids, and first-aid ointments which will be referred to as "Free Health Care".
Finally, my hope is to use the stories I have acquired throughout my internship (some of which are written throughout this blog) to engage in productive conversation that will benefit myself and potentially inspire altruist efforts in others as well.
Finally, my hope is to use the stories I have acquired throughout my internship (some of which are written throughout this blog) to engage in productive conversation that will benefit myself and potentially inspire altruist efforts in others as well.