Video: Experiencing Local Culture

International travel is an extremely rewarding experience, especially when you are on a medical mission. Working side-by-side with local practitioners and helping people in a time of need becomes a bonding experience. Getting to see the local culture is the icing on the cake of a mission. Each trip is…

How to have a great medical mission experience

Guest Blogger: Kari Redfield Most physicians choose medicine as their career because they want to help people. However, the day-to-day pressures and politics of being a doctor can make it easy to lose sight of that goal. A medical mission is a great way to recapture that original purpose, allowing…

Giving back on a medical mission to Thailand

Guest Blogger: Kari Redfield, Global Medical Staffing Have you ever wanted to use your medical skills to give back through an international medical mission? The Making a Difference Foundation recently helped two physicians have just such an experience on a medical mission to Thailand. Both providers work as locum tenens…

Thailand Gulf

In September 2018, the Making a Difference Foundation provided a financial grant to International Medical Relief (IMR) so six physicians could participate in a medical mission trip to Cambodia. Partnering with IMR, the Song Saa Foundation, the Cambodian government, and CompHealth Locum Tenens, the physicians traveled to the remote Koh…