Pharmacists and Touro College of Pharmacy faculty members Anastasiya Shor, PharmD, Dipan Ray, PhD, RPh, recently completed a medical mission through International Medical Relief to Warsaw, Poland, where they spent week caring for displaced Ukrainians in 24-hour clinic at large shelter. We asked them tell us about it.Why did you decide do mission?Shor: As Ukrainian-American—I was born Ukraine my...

On Saturday, September 10, 2005, the California Emergency Medical Services Authority called. The US Surgeon General’s Office had requested that the state provide medical support in the Houston area to treat Hurricane Katrina evacuees. This population had critically depleted local medical resources and their ability to provide adequate care. By early Monday morning, an 11-member Kaiser Permanent...

The mission of the Medical Alumni Society is to maintain and foster relationships to support the advancement of The Ohio State University College of Medicine/Medical Center and the College of Medicine Alumni Affairs office through service, engagement and communication with its MD/resident/fellow alumni, faculty and students body. The Society will also promote and support the mission of The Ohio...

BACKGROUND To be successful, hospitals must increasingly collaborate with their medical staff. One strategic tool that plays an important role is the mission statement of hospitals. The goal of this research was to study the relationship between the fulfillment of administrative and professional obligations of hospitals on physicians' motivation to contribute to the mission of the hospital. Fur...

The medical mission field is an innovative setting for training and evaluating health care professional students. The motivating factor of serving indigent populations as a means of a humanitarian, or oftentimes a spiritual act, makes medical missions an attractive option for student participation. At the Gregory School of Pharmacy, medical mission teams are an integral part of the pharmacy pro...

Sponsorship of a healthcare organization by a religious community requires sponsors to maintain significant influence and ultimate control over mission, quality of services, and assets. To ensure the mission of its sponsor (the Religious Sisters of Mercy) permeated all its operations, St. Edward Mercy Medical Center, Fort Smith, AR, incorporated the nine Mercy values into the organization's cor...

Th e fi rst step in constructing an educational building is the defi nition of its mission. Although it seems obvious, it is rather challenging to have a well-defi ned and visible mission for all the protagonists. Th e SM-UMinho clearly established as its mission ‘to improve the quality of healthcare through education and research’. To achieve this mission, the SM-UMinho defi ned a strong strat...