Missions for Pre-med and Medical Students

Global Frontier Missions     Medical missions is an     important part of our     ministry here in Oaxaca, Mexico. We have several short term medical mission trips each year. We also have two-month long summer staff opportunities for medical students or others that would enjoy being involved with several different short-term medical outreach teams. Help A Child! Belize Mission Project  Join us in our work in medical and dental clinics in the Corozol district of English-speaking Belize. We welcome med and dental students, nurses, hygienists, pedodontists, etc. We're an evangelical mission involved in several projects. MISSIONS TO AFRICA  Pro-Health International  We are a Christian health care organization focused on uplifting the health status of the less privi- leged in rural areas of Africa. Needed: OB-GYN, Physicians, General Surgeons, Pediatricians, Dentists, Nurses, Surgical Technologists, Pharmacists, Optometrists, Ophthalmologists, Pastors, Medical and Dental Students. Contact u.onoriobe@phint.org, 704.804.4436

Light of the World Missions Medical, Nursing, and Dental students, hygienists, etc. Join our Dental teams and come to English-speaking Belize in Central America to help with the dental and spiritual needs of the local people. We are an Interdenominational, Bible-based ministry, serving Jesus and the poor because of His love. Contact Bobbie by email. Medical Ministries Fishers of Men offers two-week trips to Mongolia and Trinidad & Tobago. We provide medical and surgical services and evangelical outreach. We need medical and nursing students, general surgeons, scrub techs, nurses, family practice, paramedics, EMT's, helpers, teachers for children and other teachers, and any with a passion for seeking and saving the lost. Sightseeing weekends. Individuals, families.        Vets With A Mission We work in cities and rural villages in Viet Nam, where we've built rural clinics. Medical and non-medical volunteers, Vietnam vets, non-vets, healthcare/medical students, are welcome. Next team goes to Da Nang September 18 - October 3, 2008. $3,299 per person, double occupancy, 5 star hotels with daily breakfast, visa, international and Vietnam air fare, and all team ground transportation. Contact Chuck Ward, Executive Director, 803-405-9926 or email. Solid Rock Missions Christian clinic ministers to the physical and spiritual needs of the poorest of the poor in and around San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic. Students in Health Care courses can apply. (Click "Opportunities")  2008

DONATE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

Also, Assist International

Adventure In Missions
If you have a heart to serve and reach out in love, here is an short term opportunity for you to serve Jesus Christ by providing physical and spiritual healing to the impoverished people of Honduras. Your health care talents and abilities can be used to bless others. Will you join us?

Agape in Action (Now under the auspices of New Beginning Resources Inc - NBRI)
Daily medical clinics around Santa Cruz, Guatemala and its outlying areas for those who can't afford health care. We also host diverse volunteer medical teams of doctors, surgeons, and medical students who come throughout the year. Surgical emphasis. Serving Mayan people.

Agua Viva Ministries
Opportunities around Ensenada Mexico include medical clinics, VBS, construction, prison, orphanage, sports, door-to-door, youth camps and more. Nursing, pre-med, and medical students are welcome. 

AIM Summer Teams
Trips to Africa allow you to explore the daily challenges and reward of cross-cultural health care ministry, and understand more clearly God's direction for your life in regards to health care ministries.

Amigos de las Americas (Not necessarily Christian)
For high school and college students and pre-clinical medical students. Volunteers provide basic public health services (vaccinations, oral hygiene, community sanitation), can assist in general development projects (school construction, tree planting, community gardening). Central and South America, Caribbean.

Ashirvad Home for Orphan and Street Children   (Tuni, A.P. India)
30 children, between 5 and 15, at this time, more waiting for help with food, clothing, and shelter. Volunteers may apply: we need volunteers who can teach English, can teach stories and songs from the Bible, or rovide basic medical care. Med students welcomed.

Baptist Medical Centre  (Nlerigu, Ghana)
Year round medical opportunities for service, most specialties. The 105-bed hospital in the 'brush' has three full time MDs on staff. There is a busy clinic and surgical service. Volunteer opportunities for health care and dental professionals and non-medical ministries as well. Medical - dental - nursing students & residents may inquire. Affiliated with Southern Baptist Convention.

Baptist Mid-Missions
Long term and short term trips to Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, and Chad, for Physicians, Public Health Workers, Nurses, Clinical Medical Students, and specialists in Anesthesiology, Audiology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, etc. Affiliated with Baptist Mid-Missions churches.

Breaking Borders
WANTED: Christ-centered college students, medical students, professionals, and any sold-out "10-40 window" junkie who can't get enough of being used by God in the most unreached and restricted areas of the world. Join us in reaching muslims for Christ in North Africa for the glory of God!

By The Holy Spirit Medical Adventure Evangelism  (Honduras)
Share the good news and love of Jesus Christ as He would have through medical care. We seek committed Christ-followers to join our spirited team of physicians, nurses, health care students, and other volunteers who will provide hands-on primary care through outreach clinics in mountainous central Honduras.

Central American Relief Efforts (Honduras) (Not necessarily Christian)
Tending to the needs of the underserved, we use internists, specialists, dentists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, chiropractors, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, nurses, pharmacists, students, and support people such as translators, drivers, school teachers, office workers, carpenters, retired executives, housewives, and even teenagers.

Center for International Service Learning (Formerly Servir)
2 - 9 week trips to help bring urgent and critically needed health care service/ministry to the poor of Central America. Academic credit, financial aid. Independent study opportunities in areas such as Natural Medicine, women's medical issues in Hispanic cultures, the role of myth, superstition, and legend in the practice of third world medicine, and much more.

Change a Life Foundation (Zimbabwe)
ZMEH has openings for Christian health care staff, to serve in Zimbabwe. Situated on the Gwayi River near rural clinics and on a game reserve park. Housing and vehicle provided. More than 120,000 children under the age of 15 are living with HIV in Zimbabwe, and hundreds more contract the virus each week because of a lack of antiretroviral medicines to prevent mother-to-child transmission.

The Chiapas Project
One week medical and dental trips serve the Zoque people of Chiapas, Mexico. Medical and dental students, high school and older kids and other non-medical people welcomed.

Child Family Health International (Not necessarily Christian)
Students in pre-med, clinical med, masters of public health, nursing, dentistry, psychology, naturopathy, osteopathy, physicians assistant, senior undergraduates. Medical residency. Clinical rotations, 4 week electives. Ecuador, Bolivia, South Africa, India, Mexico. Some Spanish needed in some locations.

Christ for Humanity
See their scars, hear their story, then join our persecuted brothers and sisters laboring in North Africa and India for the fame of Christ. Doors are open to use your skills and build relationships to reach Muslims for Christ. We are looking for self-sacrificing college and medical students to GO with Christ for Humanity!

Christian Emergency Relief Teams International
Short-term trips for medical (physicians, pediatricians, dentists, nurses, etc.), health care students, and non-medical people. Assist in clinics in remote areas including South America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia (including Romania, China). Spanish helpful in Peru, especially in Amazon jungle areas.

Christian Hands in Action -- CHIA
Based in El Paso, Texas, we carry the Gospel to people in the U.S. and abroad (primarily Mexico), using medical, dental, and optometric clinics. We also do construction projects and lend physical support to missionaries around the world. We schedule trips as short as three days. Health Care students welcomed.

Christian Medical and Dental Society's Global Health Outreach Program
Short term medical and dental outreaches to a variety of nations. Pre-med, other health care majors, and those without medical training can be useful in support roles. Some scholarships may be available.

Christian Medical Missions
Affordable or free medical, dental, and optometry pediatric and adult care to people of Moca and surrounding areas of the Dominican Republic. Also, trips to India, Haiti, and Ecuador. We need volunteer accountants, truck drivers, physicians, teachers, students, or anyone else who is seeking to show God's love.

Christian Medical Missions, Inc. (CMMI)
Established in 1990, CMMI sends medical teams five times a year for one week to remote Indian villages in Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Mexico. We use medical, dental, optometric, and lay volunteers. Spanish is understood by the younger generations in these areas.

ChristianVision Eye Services to Haiti
Students and doctors can enjoy short trips and utilize the fully equipped eye clinic not far from Port-au-Prince. You can help patients who often travel great distances to obtain eye care they otherwise would not be able to find or afford. 

Church Growth Ministries of Samoa
Medical and spiritual help to the people of the Islands. We work through local churches to provide medical care and medicine for the sick. We also share the Love of Jesus Christ through prayer and the message of salvation. Trips are mid-summer. Med-students and pre-med students welcomed!

Costner Medical Missions
We take groups to the Amazon Jungle region of Ecuador 3 or 4 times per year for one week long medical and dental mission trips. Occasional trips to the Galapagos Islands. Trips are open to med students and non-medical volunteers. There is also some sight-seeing in the highlands of Ecuador. 18 years and older.

Cross Road Medical Center
Southern Alaska. For more than 50 years, the only MD level provider of health care for an area that is roughly the size of Ohio. A very limited number of 3rd or 4th year med students can be accepted. Can be combined with family vacation.

Cry Cameroon Ministries
We're deeply concerned with the poor health conditions of the people of Cameroon, West Africa. We support five primary healthcare centers in Cameroon, which desperately need drugs, doctors, trained nurses, lab technicians and basic equipment. Medical and nursing students should inquire too. Will you help?

Curamericas (formerly known as Andean Rural Health Care - ARHC). Not necessarily Christian
Pre-clinical Med Students, Clinical Med Students, and Graduate Students all welcomed. "...enabling and empowering the poor in Bolivia to improve their health and reduce the tragically high incidence of unnecessary sickness ..." 

Emmanuel Hospital Association
UK based organization offers openings for medical personnel, including medical and dental students, in India. Hospitals, Community Health programs, etc. Includes dental surgery, eye care, physiotherapists. Medical, dental, and elective programs. Free staff accommodations for international volunteers.

Engineering World Health (Not necessarily Christian)
Overseas summer programs for American undergrad and graduate students to teach usage, repair instruments and help with other aspects of biomedical engineering. (Academic credit and financial assistance may be arranged.) Intensive one month training program at The University of Costa Rica in San Jose. Other short term trips enable biomedical professionals and technicians to go overseas.

EyeCare WeCare Foundation, Inc.

EyeCare WeCare Foundation, Inc.
Permanent and mobile vision clinics in the Philippines serve the rural indigent population. We provide free eye exams and used eyeglasses, eye medication, and eye surgeries to the rural poor. Our mobile clinic serves remote parts of the islands. We need volunteer optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists or other eye care professionals. Students who have skills in these areas also welcome. Multi-denominational, non-profit organization.

Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism  (FAME) 
Short term medical opportunities in many nations.  Eye, dental and medical clinics, hospitals, mobil units. Honduras, Haiti, Ghana West Africa, Panama, Zimbabwe, more.

Fellowship of Christian Optometrists
Domestic and International short term missions for optometry students.

Flying Doctors of America
Flies two week (or less) medical - dental teams to the poorest of the poor in rural regions of developing countries including Latin and South America, Albania, Tibet, Africa, Goa (India), Guatemala (includes white water rafting), China, Brazil. Many medical skills needed, including Pharmacists, Chiropractors, CMTs, and non-medical staff.

Forward Edge International
7 to 12 day trips into Nicaragua and Guatemala, often to remote villages. Medical and dental. Students in health care studies, EMT's, etc.

Global Aid Network (GAiN USA)
Students in health care studies, please join us on short-term mission trips around the world, including medical missions. The common thread of each trip is caring for hurting and needy people through compassionate aid while proclaiming the Good News of Christ. Affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ.

Global Frontier Missions
Medical missions is an important part of our ministry here in Oaxaca, Mexico. We have several short term medical mission trips each year. We also have two-month long summer staff opportunities for medical students or others that would enjoy being involved with several different short-term medical outreach teams.

God's Chosen Ones Ministry
An evangelical orphanage in Haiti seeks medical professionals and health care students, to join short term trips to this, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, during the Christmas holidays. Non-medical participants are welcome and needed and will be used according to their gifts and abilities. We will be serving with Ludalia Simeon at Ganthier.

God's Helping Hands
Short term Medical and dental clinics and construction projects for groups, in Poptun, Peten, Guatemala. Summer, spring break, etc. Our goal is to link human hands with God's to show His love to our neighbors, here in the states as well as overseas. Affiliated with Seventh-day Adventists

Good Samaritan Medical Ministry
Our teams treat over 4,000 patients in Viet Nam each year. We need many health care skills, and also welcome inquiries from medical students and young adult volunteers.

Guatemala Medical Mission
Several clinics and health care facilities in the Mayan area of Guatemala are outlined on this page. Some accept med students, and some offer rotation possibilities. Some women's medicine, street kids, rehab facilities, more.

Haiti Medical Mission of Fargo-Moorhead
Volunteer medical team goes to Pignon, Haiti each year to provide free medical care to those in need. We can use a very limited number of med students. (Photo)

Haiti Outreach Ministries
Both medical personnel and lay persons are needed for short term trips to our clinics in Cite Soleil, Terre Noire, and Source Matelas areas of greater Port au Prince. Students in health care programs, paramedics and EMTs are welcomed.

Health Talents International MET Program
Six-week short term mission experience for nursing, pre-dentistry, pre-med, and other medically oriented Christian students considering medical missions. Work side by side with full time medical evangelists helping with immunizations, primary care mobile clinics, and community development. Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. Church of Christ affiliation

Health Teams International, Inc.
Medical/dental clinics in tribal villages. Goes exclusively to unreached people groups. Assists in their evangelization worldwide through the ministrations of Christian health care teams. Ask for our newsletter.

Hospitals of Hope International
Serves the poor in Vinto, Bolivia near Cochabamba. Short-term trips go to the clinic, surrounding communities and into the Chapare Jungle. International rotations and internships are available for students with interest in missions and medicine. Spring Break trips. 1 - 4 year Medical / Dental / Nursing /Allied health students welcomed.

Houses of Hope (Casa de Esperanza in Zacapa, Guatemala)
Join our mobile medical teams and serve the children and people in unreached villages of Guatemala, by acting as the healing hands of Jesus. Watch how God uses medicine and compassion to bring the Gospel to His people. No medical training is necessary but is helpful (Professionals lead the teams).

Impact International
Offers opportunities to medical and non medical personal to serve the needy in  Guatemala, Mexico and Belize. Med students welcomed to apply.

Independent Baptist Medical Mission
7-10 day trips to various Central and South American countries. We can use any individuals with health care training in our clinics, including medical students. We provide a wide range of services and medications, free of charge. We work with local churches in the country. Affiliated with Independent Baptist churches

Institute for International Medicine
Physicians interested in entering medical missions often discover their education poorly prepared them to work effectively in poorer nations. INMED prepares you to serve by offering clinical rotations for med students and residents in Africa, Asia and Central America, and through didactic instruction in international health, diseases of poverty, and community health strategy.

International Children's Aid Foundation
Medical and dental missions trips to Romania, from 8 to 365 days. Live at our Christian orphanage and provide front-line medical and dental care at our clinic and at remote villages. In your 'spare' time you can play with our children or help with evangelism, church development, or early child development.

International Health Youth Internships
Six to 12 month International health care internships for recent graduates or those about to graduate. For Canadian citizens only.

International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA)
Are you struggling with your faith as a Christian in a medical or dental school? Here is a great resource. Information on technology, ethics, other topics of interest. We also hold world and regional conferences where there are other students who share your situation and outlook. You can be encouraged and stimulated to think further about how you can serve God through your profession.

International Medical Assistance * IMA Missions
One and two-week medical missions to Mexico throughout the year. Two-week projects in February, June, and October. Physicians, surgeons, nurses, O.R. Techs, students in health care subjects, and "general helpers" needed. High-school age are welcome (or younger if participating with parents).

International Medical Relief  (Not necessarily Christian)
Medical student opportunities with IMR, a large organization that provides health care to under-served and vulnerable people around the world. Also medical short-term assignments for volunteer doctors, dentists and other health care professionals and non-medical volunteers to conduct medical clinics in areas where medical care is limited or difficult to obtain. CME credits available.

International Mission Board (Southern Baptist)
(Select 'Medical' at web site) Medical experiences for students who have completed the third year of medical, veterinary or dental school (assignments up to 8 weeks), and for medical school graduates who have completed two years of residency (assignments for 8 to 12 weeks).

International Partnership for Service-Learning (not necessarily Christian)
Link community service in many nations with academic study. Also administers a one-year British Master's Degree Program in International Service. Open to qualified high school graduates, college students and graduates, and in-service professionals. Qualifies for work-study funds in USA.

IsleGO Missions
Experiencing God and His people in the Caribbean. Short-term teams to Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas. Medical clinics (some med students okay), children's and youth ministries, worship ministry, construction, discipleship training, literature distribution.

James Watts Ministries Inc.
Resident missionaries in Amazon River Basin town of Pucallpa, Peru. We host short-term teams for Dental and Medical clinics, Child Evangelism, Light Construction, and Youth Groups. Typical stays of 1 to 3 weeks. Come have the experience of your life while serving God. Students in health care majors are welcomed!

Jet Boat Missions to Mexico
We are based adjacent to a large inland reservoir, near Veracruz, in Mexico. Our jet boat gives us unique access to people groups who have not yet heard the Gospel. We provide medical and dental help, and do evangelism, construction, practical helps, TESL, and education. Come join us for the ride of your life!

Lee University  (Cleveland, Tennessee)
Operates an 8-week Summer of Studies in Medical Missions program. The first five weeks are on campus studying parasitology, Spanish, pharmacology and issues in Latin American health. The trip to Guatemala includes medical and dental clinics, evangelistic outreach and children's ministry. Pre-health professions students invited. Please make inquiries no later than Jan 1 of the summer for the mission trip. Contact Jeri Veenstra jveenstra@leeuniversity.edu or Milton Riley mriley@leeuniversity.edu for more information.

Light of the World Missions
Medical students, dental professionals, RNs, etc., welcomed on short term trips to English-speaking Belize (Central America) where you will work with professional medical personnel for hands-on field experience.

LifeWaterMedical Ministries
Short term (about 2 week) trips in Kenya, where we set up medical clinics in the bush, drill water wells, and build churches. Medical students and professionals, builders, and others regardless of professional skills, are welcome and will find a place in our work. Trips are evangelistic in nature. (Southern Baptist affiliation)

Lumiere Medical Ministries
Long or short term mission trips and/or career missionary service to Haiti. Areas of service include medical, remote clinics, construction, teachers, etc. We organize regular rotations of expatriate doctors, nurses and technicians who work in Haiti for varying periods of time. Medical students welcomed in inquire.