AMEN 2014: Joined Together

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Plenary

Allen Lloyd

Healing Patients for Eternity

Eric Nelson

Rachel Nelson

The 6th Competency: Systems-Based (Spiritual) Practice

Phil Mills

Crowded Waiting Rooms

George Guthrie

D’Sozo, The Theology of Health

John Chung

Mark Finley

Tim Howe

Naren James

Mark Ranzinger

AMEN 10th Anniversary Panel Discussion

Anil Kanda

Ellen White Finally Exposed

Wholeness in a Broken World

Stephen Thorp

Reclaiming the Vision: Mission in the LLU School of Medicine

Todd Guthrie

From Broken to Blessed

We're well acquainted, many of us are from Loma Linda, or in some way, shape, or form, connected with Loma Linda.

We're all well acquainted with what the original mission of Loma Linda was.

And It's inspiring also to me to hear the stories of how the institution was founded.

Recently, this past spring actually, during the alumni convention, they installed a new statue up on the top of the hill in Loma Linda by Nicol Hall.

And it's a monument to the the beginnings of Loma Linda and the miraculous story that led to Loma Linda being developed.

Ellen White as she came onto the campus and it's a story we're familiar with, is she said, I've been here before, and her son Willie said, no, mother, you haven't.

And then she said, well, this is the very place that the Lord has shown me.

And that experience really served as a beginning point for Loma Linda.

And the history of Loma Linda, while not perfect, is replete with mission stories.

And oftentimes, it's easy to forget where we've come from.

Alan White in Life Sketches said, we have nothing to fear for the future except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us and is teaching in our past history.

That reminds me of this beautiful monument in the center of campus in Loma Linda.

It's on the pathway connecting the medical center and the new basic science building, Centennial Complex.

And it's a beautiful globe and a monument to all the people that have served from Loma Linda.

And during the doldrums of second year when you start studying pathology at 4.30 in the morning and except for a little bit of a break for pharmacology and pathophys, you'd still be studying at 9.30 at night.

It was inspiring to me personally to take a break every couple hours and go visit this monument, walk around it, and remind myself why I'm here at Loma Linda and what God is calling me to do.

Reminds me of a conversation that was a spiritual turning point in my life with a conversation I had with my dad and he said, son, God does not have grandchildren.

I said, okay dad, you got to explain that 1.

The fact that I'm a pastor and I've raised you boys and have a strong and that I personally have a strong walk with God is not enough for you to be a Christian.

It's something that you have to own yourself.

And in the same way the mission and vision of Loma Linda is not something that is good enough for the previous generation to have.

It's something that each generation has to pick up and own and reclaim for themselves.

Couple weeks ago I was at a conference for global health leadership from around the world in Avenus Health, health care institutions, and it was inspiring to hear stories from so many different places.

Some of the people I hear tonight from Nigeria and India and maybe a few other people that I'm not not aware of.

And it it reminded me again the tremendous history of missions that Loma Linda has.

For the first 50 years of Loma Linda's existence, approximately 2 hospitals were founded every year.

That's actually really incredible when you think about it.

Many of those same hospitals are still alive and functioning today.

Wareham, the International Heart Surgery Service team, Inspiring stories, the stories Dr.

Them owning the mission and the vision and going out and living that vision in their own lives is not enough.

It's something we have to claim for ourselves, to pick up for ourselves and own ourselves.

So I've invited today 7 people to briefly share their stories of what's happening in their lives while they're in medical school.

We'll hear from Brent in a minute, starting out with street medicine, and we'll finish up with Eddie Perry and what's going on in the Congo.

Fantastic stories, stories of God blessing while we're in medical school.

And it's these sort of things that we can get involved in now that help us to reclaim the vision.

So I invite you to enjoy, sit back, we all love mission stories, and you're gonna hear 7 of them this morning.

Well, good afternoon, my name is Brent Sherwin.

I'm a medical student at Loma Linda, fourth year medical student, and I'm gonna tell you a little bit about street medicine and how I got involved in it, and how it's really made a big impact on my life during medical school.

So the first couple slides, I'm gonna kind of explain what street medicine is, and then the majority of it I'd like to spend just telling you how it's impacted me, and kind of gave me a vision for the future.

So many of you might be asking, well, what is street medicine?

You might have heard the term before, but basically what we are is kind of a group of students that goes out on a weekly basis.

We go to the San Bernardino County streets and we try and help the people that normally you wouldn't see in your regular medical office or dental office just because of problems with access or they just plain don't have transportation to areas where those clinics are.

So the things we do basically are triage, basic primary care, and then also act as a referral center kind of to give these people ideas of where they could go to get further care that we can't provide at the time.

For example, we don't do labs and we don't do x-rays or imaging or anything of that sort.

So we can check their problems, see what needs to be done, and then refer them on to somebody that can help them further.

So those are the things that we mainly focus on on a rate for street medicine.

So 1 of the reasons we do street medicine at Loma Linda, and this program was just started a few years ago, is 1 of the things I already mentioned.

Many of the homeless people in San Bernardino don't have access to clinics, or if they do, it's very difficult for them to get to the clinic to get health care.

And so what we do is we go to them instead.

Instead of them having to come to us, we either go and meet them on the streets where they are, or we go to several shelters and church clinics that are set up around the community where they come on a regular basis to either get food or clothing.

And so we kind of go and meet them where they are at.

The other reason we do street medicine is kind of fulfilling the ethical principle of justice, with providing health care to everybody, not just the people that can either get to it or have the money to afford it.

And then as Stephen mentioned, there's several statues on the campus of Loma Linda University.

And 1 of the ones that really sticks out in my mind is the Good Samaritan statue.

You can walk by it lots of times every day and kind of forget that that's 1 of the main reasons Loma Linda was founded.

But for us, street medicine is kind of putting the story of the Good Samaritan into practice on a weekly basis.

I'm going to tell you kind of how the street medicine movement started.

And 1 program in Pittsburgh did a study and they actually were saving their emergency room about $300, 000 a year just by going on the streets and helping people, kind of preventing them from having to come into the emergency room to get their primary care, and instead going to them and helping them with their primary care right there on the streets.

And then also, street medicine just provides a really excellent addition to the education we already get at Loma Linda University.

And I'll explain a little bit more of that later.

So the movement of street medicine started about 20 years ago in Pittsburgh with a doctor named Jim Withers.

He kind of looked around and realized that there really wasn't anybody going out and reaching this population.

And eventually, it turned into quite a movement there in Pittsburgh.

And then from there, it's kind of spread around the country to different medical schools and different institutions.

And then you can see these other dates for kind of how street medicine has grown as an institution.

So just to give you, I'm not going to read all of these stats, but San Bernardino, for those of you that have been to Loma Linda, is quite a poor community.

You can see there's over 2, 300 people each day that are on the streets.

And so when we first started this, we saw that there was a huge need and that just wasn't getting filled.

And so you can see some of the other statistics.

It's a difficult population to work with.

Usually people don't just come in with 1 problem, they have multiple problems.

And so what we try to do is act as a kind of a liaison between them and getting them to a place that they can get longer term care.

And so these are some of the stats for you to look at really quickly.

Physician at Loma Linda started going out, kind of like Dr.

Withers did in Pittsburgh, going out to the streets just kind of on her own.

And she had mentioned it to some of her rotating medical students.

And they said, hey, could we come with you?

And so some of those medical students started going out on a weekly basis.

And unfortunately, the physician actually ended up leaving and going to a different health care system for various reasons.

And so the students decided, well, we need to keep this going, keep this alive.

And so it became a student-led organization there with sponsors from the School of Medicine.

Series

Plenary

Reclaiming the Vision: Mission in the LLU School of Medicine

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

AMEN 2008 Plenary Sessions

AMEN 2008: LLU Student Mission Reports

1h

Your Son, Your Only Son

48m

Lewis Walton: Rediscovering the Faith

Till the Storm Passes

1h

Dylan McWilliams Weekend

“But If Not”

52m

The Importance of Being Earnest

50m

Vitamin D3 and the Healing of the Church

38m

Breakouts

God’s Call to the Jungle

1h 2m

Refuse to Be Denied

26m

Breakout Session C

Reflecting Christ to Your Community as a Healthcare Provider

1h 7m

Extreme Makeover: Pathway to Health Style

2. Makeover Step 1: What is Required

1h

Eric Walsh Weekend

01 Purified in Persecution

1h 1m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

2. Encountering God

1h 5m

Sound Doctrine