Leading a Medical Team
A Short-Term Mission Leader's Guide
by
Frank Marsh
and
Stephen R. Belton, MD
Home Page and Introduction
This guide intends to share insights gained through the experience of many people and many trips taken over the course of more than a decade
of medical missions at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. It presents "a way" that has led to great success but recognizes that other "ways" have equal
validity and merit. The reader should take the points that seem especially helpful or pertinent to their own trip, and perhaps tuck away the others
for another time.
You can help improve this Guide
Our desire is that this Guide would be an ever-evolving help to anyone leading medical short-term teams. To that end
we seek your input and ideas for improvement. Please feel free to email us with your suggestions or point us to resources that
have helped you or been successful for you in past trips. As these are received, we will endeavor to include as many as
possible and this Guide will be updated. Email suggestions, other input, or questions to the authors at
info at stmleadersguide dot org.
This Guide is "Open Source"
We also want this Guide to be an "Open Source" Guide and we do hereby
make it and its contents
freely available to anyone who finds it useful. Feel free to point people to the url and to use individual pages or forms
in print or electronic format in whatever manner is helpful to you or your group.
Organization of this Guide
This document is organized in such a way as to assist a Team Leader in anticipating and thinking through various aspects of the trip being planned. We have taken the approach
of presenting the material along a "timeline" that extends from when you begin to think about the trip through the various planning stages (Early, Mid-,
and Late Pre-Trip) on to the trip itself and beyond.
There is a menu to the left of the pages that shows the page you are looking at with red text, the other pages in that section in dark red text
and the other sections' headings with dark blue text. You can navigate using the buttons "Last page" or "Next page" at the bottom of each page or you can use the menu to the
left. Links to other web sites or other resources are highlighted like this.
May the Lord bless you as you seek Him and as you serve His kingdom!
To God be the glory,
Frank Marsh and Steve Belton
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