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IMAHelps Mission Overview
Site Selection Criteria
IMAHelps selects locations for its medical missions in concert with local health officials who highlight specific communities where people suffer the most from poverty, lack of education and limited healthcare services.
Mission Team Selection Criteria
IMAHelps selects volunteers for its medical missions based on their professional education, licensing and experience. IMAHelps seeks volunteers from every healthcare specialty, including dentistry; optometry; general surgery; orthopedic surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery; internal medicine; obstetrics and gynecology; pediatrics; urology; physical therapy; prosthetics; and pharmacy. IMAHelps also seeks surgical and medical support team volunteers, including anesthesiologists, nurses, surgical technicians and interpreters. A limited number of student volunteers are also used on some IMAHelps missions, provided they can fulfill specific mission support functions identified by the IMAHelps Board of Directors.
Provision of Basic Health and Hygiene Education
IMAHelps volunteers provide basic health and hygiene education seminars to patients waiting for appointments in an effort to provide long-term value. These seminars supplement the information our volunteers provide to patients during their appointments. IMAHelps often recruits local Peace Corps volunteers to help with the health and hygiene education portions of our missions because they often have specialized knowledge of local health and hygiene issues.
Provision of Professional Healthcare Education
IMAHelps volunteers share their knowledge and information about some of the latest American healthcare practices with their local counterparts, including doctors, surgeons, nurses and other support personnel. By the same token, IMAHelps volunteers strive to learn from their local colleagues about specific medical conditions and treatment procedures not typically seen in the United States. We see these medical missions... show more as a way for our volunteers to work as a team while developing professional relationships and friendships with local doctors, surgeons and support personnel.
Costs of Medical Missions
IMAHelps volunteers pay for their airfares as well as their room and board during the medical mission. IMAHelps negotiates significant discounts for room and board with host country hotels. IMAHelps conducts ongoing fundraising activities to obtain funding for in-country transportation, medicines and medical supplies, including pharmaceutical products. IMAHelps also solicits donations of medical equipment and supplies, including pharmaceutical products whose expiration dates are at least six months after each mission, in accordance with host country regulations.
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Site Selection Criteria
IMAHelps selects locations for its medical missions in concert with local health officials who highlight specific communities where people suffer the most from poverty, lack of education and limited healthcare services.
Mission Team Selection Criteria
IMAHelps selects volunteers for its medical missions based on their professional education, licensing and experience. IMAHelps seeks volunteers from every healthcare specialty, including dentistry; optometry; general surgery; orthopedic surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery; internal medicine; obstetrics and gynecology; pediatrics; urology; physical therapy; prosthetics; and pharmacy. IMAHelps also seeks surgical and medical support team volunteers, including anesthesiologists, nurses, surgical technicians and interpreters. A limited number of student volunteers are also used on some IMAHelps missions, provided they can fulfill specific mission support functions identified by the IMAHelps Board of Directors.
Provision of Basic Health and Hygiene Education
IMAHelps volunteers provide basic health and hygiene education seminars to patients waiting for appointments in an effort to provide long-term value. These seminars supplement the information our volunteers provide to patients during their appointments. IMAHelps often recruits local Peace Corps volunteers to help with the health and hygiene education portions of our missions because they often have specialized knowledge of local health and hygiene issues.
Provision of Professional Healthcare Education
IMAHelps volunteers share their knowledge and information about some of the latest American healthcare practices with their local counterparts, including doctors, surgeons, nurses and other support personnel. By the same token, IMAHelps volunteers strive to learn from their local colleagues about specific medical conditions and treatment procedures not typically seen in the United States. We see these medical missions... show more as a way for our volunteers to work as a team while developing professional relationships and friendships with local doctors, surgeons and support personnel.
Costs of Medical Missions
IMAHelps volunteers pay for their airfares as well as their room and board during the medical mission. IMAHelps negotiates significant discounts for room and board with host country hotels. IMAHelps conducts ongoing fundraising activities to obtain funding for in-country transportation, medicines and medical supplies, including pharmaceutical products. IMAHelps also solicits donations of medical equipment and supplies, including pharmaceutical products whose expiration dates are at least six months after each mission, in accordance with host country regulations.
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December 29, 2017
Laine E. asked:Has anyone ever gone on a medical mission trip through a non profit organization? If so what company did you go trough? Any recommendations or feedback would be greatly appreciated!Martina G. replied:IMAHelps.org great group that does mission trips to central and South America. Returning to Paraguay in 2018
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