FAQ

We love having students along on our trips, and value the opportunity to encourage future healthcare providers to consider their contribution to global healthcare. We will make every effort to put students on a rotation schedule through different clinic stations, depending upon team size and the types of clinics available. These stations may include triage, lab, pharmacy, and assisting a provider.

Though we primarily serve in developing countries, we do maintain the same ethical standards by which we abide in the States. Please do not expect to perform skills or procedures that would not be within your scope of practice as a student. We will have licensed medical professionals available to help you learn, but we are careful to protect our patients, our providers, and the testimonies of Medical Missions Outreach and the local church with whom we will be working.

Although we want to teach and we want the student to have a rich learning experience, our primary goal is to serve a large number of patients so that they can hear the gospel. We will endeavor to teach as much as we can, time permitting.

You will probably be surprised by how much you can contribute to clinic even as a non-medical volunteer! There are some very important tasks that we can quickly train you to do, enabling our providers to see more patients. You might be asked to help escort patients, assist in triage, stock and organize supplies for lab and pharmacy, or pull glasses for our vision team. We will send out your clinic assignment before the trip, and we will give further details during team orientation. You’re going to love serving with MMO!

We would love for your church or school group to join one of our teams! Please have your trip leader reach out to [email protected] to find out how to reserve multiple spots on one of our upcoming trips.