MSI_01
- Title: Mission Hospitals
- Location: TBA
- Mission hospitals, born from 19th- and early 20th-century Christian medical missions, brought compassionate care, education, and public health to underserved communities long before universal health coverage was imagined. In India and across the Global South, they remain key providers of affordable, ethical care, often in rural and fragile settings where government and private sectors struggle to reach. In the 21st century, mission hospitals must reimagine their role—strengthening quality, governance, and financial sustainability—while staying rooted in their founding vision of holistic, Christ-centred service to the most vulnerable.
MSI_02
- Title: Cross-cultural Missions
- Location: TBA
- Missions exist because worship doesn't (Piper, 2012). Revelation 7:9-10 shows a great multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language worshipping God. This will surely take place, but currently, some people groups still lack access to hear the Gospel (Global Research Department of the International Mission Board, 2026). This condition requires cross-cultural missions (Romans 10:13-15). Matthew 24:14 mentions the urgency and importance of bringing the Gospel to all nations, as the end will not come before it is accomplished. Nevertheless, God has been strategically working through healthcare in cross-cultural missions, and we will explore it together in this group.
MSI_03
- Title: Community Development
- Location: TBA
- Christian health professionals can be powerful catalysts in helping struggling Government public health initiatives to achieve their targets directed towards the most vulnerable. This presentation highlights how biblically-rooted community health and development models—such as Community Health Evangelism (CHE) can be effectively integrated into government health systems to achieve Kingdom impact. With emerging new technologies like AI enabled research and telehealth, Christian health professionals are strategically positioned to help. Drawing from experience in Papua New Guinea and Philippines, we explore how partnerships between medical missions, churches, and Ministries of Health can strengthen primary healthcare, build local capacity and promote community ownership.
MSI_04
- Title: Gender & Sexuality
- Location: TBA
- Coming soon
MSI_05
- Title: Palliative Care
- Location: TBA
- Join us as we learn from one another how to be Christ’s presence in the growing and much needed field of palliative care. This multi professional approach is focussed on person and community centred holistic care for those living with advance chronic illness or serious health related suffering. It focuses on quality of life and valued based care; promoting dignity, relieving suffering, demonstrating compassion and fighting for justice. We have the privilege to be the presence of God in places of sorrow, loss and pain but also to support reconciliation, joy and hope with deep spiritual growth.
MSI_06
- Title: Mental Health
- Location: TBA
- Special Interest Groups (SIGs) among Christian medical and dental colleagues provide a vital space for fellowship, learning, and collaboration. They allow professionals to integrate faith with practice, addressing complex issues like mental health through both scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom. Within a SIG, members can share experiences, develop resources, and support one another in holistic care. Activities may include case discussions, research collaborations, advocacy for compassionate policies, and prayer support. By fostering community and equipping colleagues, SIGs strengthen our witness as Christian healthcare providers, ensuring that patients receive care that is both clinically excellent and spiritually sensitive.
MSI_07
- Title: Creation care & climate change
- Location: TBA
- Creation Care and Health seeks to explore a Christian approach to one of the many pressing challenges of our times. Genesis speaks of all in God's creation as being good. Gen 2:15 reminds us that we are entrusted to be carers and keepers of God's creation. The beauty of God's creation is captured in David writing in Psalms, which speaks of the heavens declaring the glory of God (Psalm 19). We are called to love our neighbours (Matt 22:37-40). We as Christian doctors, dentists and health care professionals, seek to promote and enhance health in our work. We explore how these mandates and challenges call us to address a increasingly recognised determinant of human health.
MSI_08
- Title: Crisis relief
- Location: TBA
- First of all, lets discuss on the heart and its intention. What do Christian medical professionals try to achieve as volunteers to a disaster filed? What is the “Brokenness” in a disaster field? How much Christian medical professionals can contribute to a disaster zone depends on how much disaster awareness, preparedness and collaboration done post disaster, during Recovery, Mitigation and Preparation phase. Christian medical professionals shall carry the kingdom mindset of wholistic approach to this field, not just focus on medical skill and needs during acute stage of disaster. Strengthening relationship with local church communities, building trust with local communities, network and collaborate with local agencies, to establish a spiritual, mental and physical resiliency in individual as well as communities level.
MSI_09
- Title: Justice and Advocacy
- Location: TBA
- Join host Larry Worthen for a collaborative session discussing the important role of advocacy for national medical and dental associations. As Executive Director of CMDA Canada, Larry has engaged in political advocacy, church partnerships, legal engagement, and public presentations on end-of-life issues. Participants will be invited to share their experiences with the group. No matter your setting or advocacy need, there are benefits in coming together as a community to discuss how to embrace our unique role in public conversations.
MSI_10
- Title: Surgery
- Location: TBA
- The ICMDA Surgery Special Interest Group (SIG) gathering at the 18th ICMDA World Congress in Jeju Island will bring together Christian surgeons, trainees, and surgical leaders committed to advancing surgical care globally within the framework of ICMDA’s mission. This interactive session will explore global surgery, training models, academic leadership, and faith-integrated surgical practice. Participants will engage with experienced leaders, share challenges from diverse contexts, and identify collaborative opportunities in education, mentorship, advocacy, and mission. In alignment with ICMDA’s SIG policy, this session aims to strengthen professional excellence, foster fellowship, and catalyse sustainable surgical initiatives worldwide
MSI_11
- Title: Secure Environments
- Location: TBA
- Around 12 million human beings languish behind bars – in prisons, police stations, immigration centres and locked wards. That’s one massive captive audience for the good news of the gospel! Yet huge numbers go without decent (or any) healthcare. Malnourishment, torture and other ill-treatments are common. It can be so easy to make huge differences to the lives, and eternities, of detainees. Yet offender healthcare newcomers face many potential pitfalls. Come and hear about Mark and Rachael’s medical adventures behind bars, both at home in the UK and abroad. And help us launch the ICMDA Secure Environments Global Special Interest Group.
MSI_12
- Title: Artificial Intelligence
- Location: TBA
- Coming soon
MSI_13
- Title: Coaching
- Location: TBA
- This session will outline a few models of coaching, and essential principles of how it is practiced. The session will aim to highlight the potential impact of coaching on clinical practice, personal development and leadership development. Coaching also has its role in clarifying one’s call and career pathways, stress prevention and recovery and working with support groups. There will be a mix of Interactive exercises, real-life examples, and open discussion in small groups and signposting of opportunities for skill development in this area of work.
MSI_14
- Title: Ukraine
- Location: TBA
- This session is for anyone interested in learning more about what is happening in Ukraine. We will look at the status of programs that are ongoing now since the last World Congress, what has and has not been beneficial, discuss new ideas to assist, and how to move forward over the next 4 years. We will look at what are the physical, educational, and spiritual needs and how we may come alongside our brothers and sisters to equip, educate, and encourage while keeping Jesus Christ central.
MSI_15
- Title: Dentistry
- Location: TBA
- The foremost purpose of the Dentistry SIG is to connect the dentists across the spectrum of ICMDA so they can have a platform to share their specific challenges and experiences in context of the profession. The SIG can be used for fellowship, collaborative projects, professional development and knowledge sharing. The talk will be an avenue for exchanging ideas how the group can be used to offer an enriching experience for each participant. Dentistry offers the healthcare provider a unique opportunity for creating a lasting relationship with patients based on empathy and trust. Together we can explore how to share our faith and values
MSI_16
- Title: Prolife & advocacy around abortion issue
- Location: TBA
- Abortion is one of the biggest issues faced by doctors and by countries, with an enormous global threat of underpopulation. Doctors can have disproportionate influence and genuinely shape national policy to save thousands of lives from abortion. This session will equip participants to advocate for pro-life ideas in the medical and policy spheres.
MSI_17
- Title: Islam
- Location: TBA
- When Muslims become Christian, they risk their lives and the lives of their families. They and their families suffer terrible persecution. Why do some of them take this risk? Almost 1600 MBCs have told me what attracted them to Christianity and what repelled them from Islam. In this webinar, I will be sharing the results of my questionnaire based research.
MSI_18
- Title: Lecturer & academics
- Location: TBA
- Is there an interest in forming a special interest group under the umbrella of ICMDA for Christian lecturers and teachers with in the medical academia? This question will be discussed during the special interest group time at the ICMDA congress in Jeju, July 2026. We will shortly look at the advantages and disadvantages of being a Christian in the medical academia and then turn to the question of whether there is an appetite to from a special interest group. Should there be sufficient interest in such a venture, concrete aims and structures can be discussed and appropriate action decided upon. Should you be willing to be part of such a venture you are welcome to join this group during the dedicated time.
MSI_19
- Title: Anti-trafficking
- Location: TBA
- Human trafficking exists in every part of the world and remains one of the fastest-growing crimes, generating an estimated USD 236 billion annually from forced labor and sexual exploitation—second only to drug trafficking. Globally, 40.3 million people are victims of trafficking, including 24.9 million in forced labor, affecting adults and children of all genders. Medical professionals hold a critical frontline position: trafficked persons frequently seek healthcare while still under the control of exploiters, often presenting with common medical complaints that obscure their situation. As a result, many victims go unidentified. Through this session, medical professionals will be better equipped to identify indicators of trafficking, and respond with appropriate care and referral pathways.
MSI_20
- Title: Member care
- Location: TBA
- The harvest is plentiful—and the laborers need your help! Too many missionaries leave the field because they lack timely, holistic care. ICMDA can catalyze change by mobilizing Christian health professionals to help global workers thrive in body, mind, and spirit. This interactive Special Interest Group (SIG) breakout will gather those passionate about member care, introduce the SIG vision within ICMDA, and highlight what’s already underway across our network. Come connect with like-minded clinicians, discern where your gifts fit, and collaborate to shape what’s next. We’ll gauge interest, collect contacts, and leave with clear next steps.