MD538: Healthcare in Missions (4 units)
Peter Yorgin, M.D., Visiting Associate Professor of Medical
Mission
C. Douglas McConnell, Ph.D., Dean and Associate Professor of Leadership
Judy Fitzmaurice, MBBS (Hons), Guest Lecture in Medical Mission
Summer 2005 Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:
This course explores the practice, history, and missiology of medical missions with a particular focus on strategies of community health evangelism. The teaching team will provide both theoretical and practical models for those who are interested in short and long-term medical missions. The vital role medical missions plays in the establishment of Christian witness among the poor and marginalized will be examined. The course is designed to provide a basic holistic integration of healthcare and mission.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Acquire the basic tools for
understanding the biblical, theological, and missiological of medical missions.
• Develop awareness of a Christian response informed by an understanding of the
problems and best practices of contemporary healthcare.
• Knowledge and skills to implement an appropriate strategy for healthcare
including community health evangelism.
COURSE FORMAT:
This is a four-day intensive course followed by the two-day 2005 Healthcare Missions Conference at Fuller. Participation in the conference is a requirement for credit enrolment in the class.
REQUIRED READING:
Fitzmaurice, Judy Crosscultural Healthcare Web-based
reading list. Fuller Seminary.
Fountain, D. Health, Bible and the Church.
Billy Graham Center.
Long, W.M., Health, Healing and God’s Kingdom—New pathways to Christian health ministry
in Africa. Billy Graham Center Monograph, 2000.
Rowland, S. Multiplying Light & Truth through Community Health Evangelism. GLS Publishing, India, 2001.
Stevens, D. Jesus, MD. Zondervan, 2001.
Werner, D. Where There Is No Doctor.
Palo Alto, CA: Hesperian
Foundation, 1990.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Chon, H. Health in Mission. New York: Vantage Press, 1997.
Lancaster, T. Setting Up Community Health
Programmes. NY: Macmillan, 1988.
McElroy & Townsend. Medical Anthropology. Boulder:
Westview Press, 1996.
Rowland, Stan. Multiplying Light and Truth Through Community Health
Evangelism. Mumbai, India: GLS Publishing, 2001.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Required reading plus
additional reading for a total of 1,300 pages.
Submit an annotated bibliography.
2. A case study of a specific healthcare and mission project from seminars from
the Conference identifying the principles from the perspective of best
practices (800 words).
3. A research paper (3,000-4,000 words) covering an aspect of medical missions
with reference to the relevant aspects of community health evangelism and its
strategic significance.
4. Attendance of the Healthcare & Mission Conference, June 24-25, 2005.
PREREQUISITES: None.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Elective.
FINAL EXAM: No.