CMDA Matters Christian Medical & Dental Associations® (CMDA)
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- Religion & Spirituality
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CMDA Matters is the premier audio resource for Christian healthcare professionals. Hosted by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® (CMDA) CEO Dr. Mike Chupp, it is a weekly podcast that includes interviews with experts from Christian healthcare professionals. Topics include bioethics, healthcare missions, financial stewardship, marriage, family and much more. Listen to CMDA Matters today on the CMDA Go app, iTunes and the CMDA website. When you subscribe to our iTunes channel or Google Play, you will get notified about the podcast episodes on a weekly basis.
The Christian Medical & Dental Associations® (CMDA) is made up of the Christian Medical Association (CMA) and the Christian Dental Association (CDA). CMDA provides resources, networking opportunities, education and a public voice for Christian healthcare professionals and students.
Founded in 1931, CMDA provides programs and services supporting its mission to "change hearts in healthcare" with a current membership of around 19,000 healthcare professionals. CMDA promotes positions and addresses policies on healthcare issues; conducts overseas medical education and evangelism projects; coordinates a network of Christian healthcare professionals for fellowship and professional growth; sponsors student ministries in medical dental, PA, and other healthcare training schools; distributes educational and inspirational resources; hosts marriage and family conferences; provides developing world missionary healthcare professionals with continuing education resources; and conducts academic exchange programs overseas. By being the "hands of Jesus" to needy people, CMDA seeks to fulfill His Great Commandment (Matthew 22:39; 25:36) and His Great Commission (Matthew 28:19).
The Christian Medical & Dental Associations® is a 501(c)3 and is governed by a Board of Trustees and House of Delegates. Policies of CMDA are interpreted and applied by the Board of Trustees, which also establishes the guidelines for the executive director and his staff. An elected House of Delegates assists the board with recommendations on courses of action. The House of Delegates is composed of graduate, student, resident and missionary members who are elected for three-year terms by district and meets annually at the CMDA National Convention. Approximately 75 employees currently make up the staff of CMDA in the national office and U.S. field offices.
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Finding Purpose in Retirement
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Pastor Bert Jones is joined in the studio by Dr. Steve Sartori for a discussion about how you can find purpose and identity in retirement.
RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:
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CMDA Bookstore
2024 CMDA National Convention
CMDA Center for Well-Being
CMDA Campus & Community Ministries
501 Foundations in Coaching
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Speaking Freely with The Referent Group
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, join Pastor Bert Jones as he chats with Dr. Tom Hustead and Doug Crandall about how valuable leadership is for healthcare professionals, because we are all leaders…whether we know it or not.
RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:
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CMDA Bookstore
2024 CMDA National Convention
CMDA Center for Well-Being
The Referent Group
Permission to Speak Freely by Doug Crandall and Matt Kincaid, PhD
Leadership Proverbs by David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics), and Pastor Bert Jones
Servant Leadership by David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics), and Pastor Bert Jones
501 Foundations in Coaching
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From Darkness to Redemption
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, listen to a special conversation from the Student Pulse podcast with Rev. Bill Reichart and Dr. Haywood Robinson about his book The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors.
RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:
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The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors by Drs. Haywood and Noreen Johnson
40 Days for Life
CMDA Advocacy
2024 CMDA National Convention
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Going to the Nations
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Mike Chupp chats with Dr. Katherine Smith about how she is uniquely using her skills in healthcare to go out into the nations and share Christ.
RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:
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CMDA Bookstore
Medical Education International
CMDA Mission Scholarships
Pre-field Orientation for New Healthcare Missionaries
Global Missions Health Conference
Campus & Community Ministries
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Innovations in Missions
Dr. Mike Chupp and Pastor Bert Jones are joined by Ted Esler, the president of Missio Nexus, to talk about the innovative work they are doing in missions for the cause of the Great Commission.
RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:
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CMDA Bookstore
Missio Nexus
Global Health Outreach
Global Missions Health Conference
Center for Advancing Healthcare Missions
CMDA Advocacy
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Finding a Lifeline in CMDA
Dr. Mike Chupp and Pastor Bert Jones chat with Dr. Amy Starr about how her engagement with the CMDA Coaching ministry greatly helped impact her plans for retirement and the next season of ministry in her life.
RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:
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CMDA Bookstore
Center for Well-Being
Contact Dr. Bill Griffin about a THRIVE Event
Campus & Community Ministries
Customer Reviews
Highly recommended
For physicians and other healthcare workers motivated to provide care to all with the love of Christ, this podcast provides encouragement! I highly recommend it.
Excellent resource!
I am a family physician in rural WV and the topics and guests do a great job of keeping me informed of what is going on in the world and our nation and as a Christian, how I can and should respond.
Excellent essential podcast for the Christian physician
This podcast provides light, hope and sound science to encourage Christian healthcare workers. It is one of a kind and ESSENTIAL for Christian doctors who feel they are in no man’s land currently as they don’t fit in with secular medicine culture and are also existing outside the all too often anti-science stance of evangelical Christians.