Students for International Mission Service is a Loma Linda University program that exemplifies the University's values which distinguish this institution: service-learning--incorporating service opportunities into the curriculum--and preparing health-care professionals for a life of service following graduation.
Applicants should not focus on being a volunteer where they expect to provide medical care to people that would otherwise not receive health care. We feel it is necessary to iterate that the main objective for student participants will be to learn to become caring, competent, socially responsible health professionals who value service as a lifelong process and not simply to practice clinical skills and techniques that they would not customarily provide in the United States.
There are many competent, qualified, and highly experienced physicians in developing countries. However, it is the uneven distribution of health care that allows many national and international communities to remain with limited or no access to health care and health education. SIMS encourages students to develop a high level of community awareness and to examine the ways in which every health care system is socially and culturally constructed. In this matter students can better understand how to serve all segments of the population.
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Last Revised: Thu, May 08, 2008