In 1931 Dr. George Peterson and Dr. Kenneth Geiser met in medical school and discovered that they had a common faith. Thus a bond with other Christian

In 1931 Dr. George Peterson In 1931 Dr. George Peterson

and Dr. Kenneth Geiser met in and Dr. Kenneth Geiser met in

medical school and discovered medical school and discovered

that they had a common faith. that they had a common faith.

Thus a bond with other Thus a bond with other

Christian medical students was Christian medical students was

formed. formed.

The group grew and by 1934 The group grew and by 1934

the Christian Medical Society the Christian Medical Society

was born. Years later dental was born. Years later dental

students joined and today CMS students joined and today CMS

is known as the Christian is known as the Christian

Medical & Dental Associations.Medical & Dental Associations.

As the students were moving on after training, As the students were moving on after training, more interest in CMS more interest in CMS

(CMDA) was gradually growing among graduate physicians.(CMDA) was gradually growing among graduate physicians.

Foreign missions were a big part of the vision of Foreign missions were a big part of the vision of

the medical students. the medical students.

According to an article written by Dr. Gieser for According to an article written by Dr. Gieser for

the Northwestern University Medical School the Northwestern University Medical School

Magazine, out of the small group that met for Magazine, out of the small group that met for

fellowship in the early 1930s, a significant fellowship in the early 1930s, a significant

number went to the mission field from number went to the mission field from

Northwestern.Northwestern.

CMS (CMDA) became the leader in international CMS (CMDA) became the leader in international

medical and dental education.medical and dental education.

From 1931 to the present CMDA members have had a profound influence in our world.

Dr. C. Everett Koop has been a CMDA member since his days in medical school. He and more than 17,000 members thank God for CMDA.

Ministering to and through physicians and dentists for over 80 years, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations is the nation’s largest faith-based association of physicians and dentists.

CMDA offers you dozens of life-changing ministries, resources and opportunities to help you grow in your faith and help others..

CMDA also uses our combined strength in numbers to advance your values on public policy issues—by promoting biblical principles with scientific integrity.

As a Christian doctor, you want to keep faith with God’s plan for your life.

As a Christian doctor, you want to keep faith with God’s plan for your life.

That means keeping faith with those you love…with the talents and resources God has entrusted to you…and with the individuals He has called you to serve. You want to live with integrity and practice medicine with competence and compassion.

Yet many of us never learn in medical school how to fully integrate our profession and our spiritual values. We enter medicine without this critical foundation and then often feel isolated or alienated working with colleagues who may not share our values.

Many of your Christian colleagues in medicine have banded together to grow, to fellowship, to influence and to serve.

Thousands of Christian doctors just like you are experiencing the dynamic and life-transforming movement of Christian physicians and dentists known as the Christian Medical & Dental Associations.

God is using the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) to transform lives, bring healing and hope to the world and impact our profession and culture.

God is also using CMDA to provide personal healing and spiritual growth for the next generation of physicians and dentists.

In medicine, CMDA speaks on behalf of Christian physicians and dentists who uphold life-honoring standards. CMDA offers a credible alternative to counter the life-devaluing positions of some medical specialty groups. CMDA also helps individual members to address the stress caused by frustration with healthcare delivery systems, legal issues and financial pressures.

In our culture, CMDA is promoting compassionate, life-honoring principles, legislation and policies on issues ranging from abortion to assisted suicide to conscience rights for physicians and much more.

At home, CMDA is helping physicians, dentists and their spouses learn and develop solutions for time management problems, stress, and burnout while building strong marriages and reducing the conflicts that can cause family stress.

“CMDA provides constant encouragement in what I’m doing, and keeps the focus on patients. CMDA reminds me what a privilege it is to be a part of people’s lives.” – Matt Brown, MD

“I would give up every other medical association membership before I gave up CMDA. My CMDA membership represents the essence of who I am as a physician. It helps me to constantly confirm the calling of medicine that God has placed on my life.” – Cara Brown, MD

Grow: Integrate your

faith and profession.



Influence: Voice your

values and impact public policy.



Fellowship: Network with Christian colleagues.








Minister: Reach out

to others with the love of Christ.

Experience the satisfaction of merging your spiritual beliefs with your professional practice. CMDA offers resources that are medically reliable and Biblically sound.

Today’s Christian Doctor magazine …weekly email news updates and analysis …DVD’s on cutting-edge issues … books and other resources provide you with biblically faithful and medically accurate information and inspiration.

The Christian Doctor's Digest, an audio-magazine for all CMDA members, includes many enlightening interviews with experts in various fields pertaining to Christian healthcare professionals.

”Life Support" is a mp3 audio-magazine very similar to Christian Doctor’s Digest yet focused on issues pertinent for students and residents.

Gain encouragement and enjoy friendships with Christian colleagues in your own region, across the country and around the world.

Enjoy a relaxing and refreshing getaway with your spouse, earn CME credit and enjoy fellowship with colleagues who share your values.

Deepen your relationships, faith and knowledge with marriage conferences, women’s programs, ethics seminars, missions meetings and much more.

CMDA serves as a strong and credible collective voice for Christian physicians, speaking out about:


Ethical crises in our profession and our culture.



Legal and financial challenges that are undermining medical practices.



Legal and financial challenges that are undermining medical practices.

Protecting and caring for the most vulnerable and needy patients.

When state legislation or policy initiatives arise that would impact your practice of medicine, CMDA can help you defend and advance your values right where you live.

CMDA helps organize and address the medical community in your state … trains and equips medical leaders with relevant resources …and coordinates media coverage to advance your values.

Banding together with thousands of Christian physicians who share your convictions means that your values are heard in the halls of power.

CMDA’s Washington office works closely with the White House, Congress and federal agencies to advance your values on issues such as assisted suicide, healthcare reform, abortion, conscience rights for physicians, human trafficking and more.

Your values gain credibility to change the culture, as the nation’s largest faith-based association of physicians speaks on your behalf in the national media.

CMDA experts have provided biblically sound, medically accurate perspectives on NBC, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, TIME magazine, Washington Post and many other national news outlets.

CMDA provides personalized training for members in television, radio and print media.

Join a community of Christian doctors who know and share your values and concerns.

Through fellowship, conferences and one-on-one personal ministry, we help each other.

Discover and keep faith with God’s will for our lives.

Humbly serve God, our loved ones and those we are called to help.

Practice effective stewardship of the time, talents and resources God has entrusted to us.

You can build a legacy by reaching the next generation of Christian physicians and dentists.

CMDA reaches medical and dental students on nearly every medical and dental school in the U.S., helping students integrate their faith and professional training.

CMDA offers students Bible studies, fellowship, worship, ethics education, mission trips, mentoring relationships with physicians and dentists, and personal counsel.

In 1931 CMDA was founded by students. The ministry expanded to practicing doctors, academic doctors, residents and students.

In 1931 CMDA was founded by students. The ministry expanded to practicing doctors, academic doctors, residents and students.

Today CMDA has a large staff who are focused on campus and the medical/dental community.

Network with your colleagues where you live, participating in local ministries run by local doctors.

Our professional staff of regional, area and local directors can help you join or launch a program in your own community.

Community ministry staff are also available for your personal and spiritual consultation and support.

Community ministry staff are also available for your personal and spiritual consultation and support.

Recognizing the unique needs of physicians’ marriages, the Side by Side program ministers to spouses of members.

Recognizing the unique needs of physicians’ marriages, the Side by Side program ministers to spouses of members.

CMDA personalized ministry continues into residency, as physicians and dentists and their spouses come together to face the challenges they share.

The CMDA Placement Service can help you find a practice or colleague who shares your values.

The CMDA Placement Service can help you find a practice or colleague who shares your values.

Professional placement experts help link like-minded healthcare professionals, drawing from CMDA’s huge network of doctors and practices.

Experience the joy of seeing your patients and colleagues come to know Christ.

Faith-sharing programs and resources such as the Saline Solution seminar and Practice by the Book, teach you ethical and effective ways to meet the spiritual needs of your patients and colleagues.

International mission service is an integral part of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations.

Cross-cultural ministry breaks down barriers that would otherwise obstruct the Gospel from reaching many around the world.

The experience changes lives forever, both for the person who gives and the person who receives.

Our international ministry reaches out to those who rarely, if ever, have access to medical or dental health services.

Short-term mission team members provide academic and clinical teaching to healthcare professional colleagues and students in other nations.

CMDA sets the standard and provides guidance to mission hospital administrators and mission leaders around the world.

Global Health Relief is focused on bringing health and hope to people around the world in the midst of crisis. CMDA has a rich reservoir of doctors who can make a difference in a time of crisis.

Through the years physicians and dentists of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations have Kept the Faith.

CMDA doctors whose lives have been transformed have a mission.

















Minister: Reach out

to others with the love of Christ.

CMDA is the parent organization for both the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) and the Christian Dental Association (CDA).

Launched in 1931 by medical students at Northwestern University Medical School, what became known as the Christian Medical Society later expanded to included dentists, as the Christian Medical & Dental Society.

The CMDA name change, including CMDA and CDA ,came in 2000.

Physicians who join the Christian Medical Association are automatically included as members of CMDA, as are dentists who join the Christian Dental Association.

No. The official ethical position statements, approved by our House of Representatives, are designed to help guide you as you wrestle with difficult issues, and to help articulate biblically reliable and medically sound principles to the public.

Dues provide under a third of the support needed to carry out this ministry.

Dues, donations, programs and donated services and supplies help support national ministries and support, campus and community ministries, publications, missions, education, conferences and more.

Besides helping to advance these ministries and provide the benefits received by the member, the dues investment of graduate doctors also helps underwrite free memberships for medical students.

Dues are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

You choose your level of involvement based on your personal priorities. We offer you fellowship and ministry opportunities for your consideration. Whether or not you are able to personally participate in events and ministries, you enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that your partnership in this movement is helping to make these life-changing ministries possible.

BASIC INSTRUCTIONS

Instructions: If your PowerPoint gives you the message “read only” then save it with a different name. Backup your files before you start to modify the presentation. There are extra templates (backgrounds) attached to the last group of images. Save your file with a different name than your original file.Delete slides not wanted except for templates you may use. When you delete the extra templates in this presentation the file size will be much smaller.

How to duplicate a template:

1. Select one of the template slides at the end of the presentation.

2. Right click /Duplicate Slide

These two images are not templates. I placed the images here to help you understand what I mean when I say template. The real templates are actual slides at the end of the presentation.

Click on the bullet point on this text box

If you click on the bullet on the above text box you will be able to copy and paste new text on a new page. Your text will keep all of the font attributes.

1. Click on Bullet2. Edit/Copy3. Go to new page.4. Edit/Paste

Now that your text box is on a new page type your new text in that text box. Obviously you need to delete the original ”Click on the bullet point on this text box” text.

How to add text to new slides.

I have now typed in new text and added a new image. (Insert/Photo/From File.)

When you resize the image make sure you change the size by dragging the corners only. You want to keep the proportions the same!

Original Size

Made smaller by dragging corners.

Incorrect proportions because corners were not used to resize.

In this case we added a drop shadow to the image to help separate it from the background. (Right click on image/Format Picture/Shadow I used the default shadow setting.)

Add your images

(Note: The mission images in this PP are imbedded into the template. I did so to protect the copyright issues. The image on this slide is not imbedded thus it could be use by individuals who have nothing to do with CMDA thus water mark on her face.

In this case we have copied the “missions” image to the Medical Dental missions template. You could do the same if you want to add your own images from y0ur latest mission trip etc.

END OF INSTRUCTIONS

TEMPLATES

Once you have chosen your templates you may want to delete unused templates. After the extra templates are deleted the file size of the presentation will be smaller. When you delete the unused templates save your presentation with a different name. You will then have the option to capture the original templates in the future.

Blank pages you can use as a resource for backgrounds when you add your own images.

Extra Mission Images

Documents

In 1931 Dr. George Peterson and Dr. Kenneth Geiser met in medical school and discovered that they had a common faith. Thus a bond with other Christian