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or Long Term possibilities?       A Different Kind of Voluntering Have you ever considered using your medical talents as a PA in a place where your clinical skills are precious? Working in a coarse environment, with faces you’ll remember for your lifetime? The potential for change is profound. Our PA Alumni have recommended and/or served in these Short-Term International Medical Missions:   Glens Falls Medical Missionary Foundation gfmmf.org Locally organized, the GFMMF has developed a sustained clinical relationship with the people of one area in the developing world. They greatly appreciate PAs and will accept students serving this medically indigent but wonderful group of Guatemalan people.   Medical Missions Directory missionfinder.org/medical An excellent site which includes THOUSANDS of opportunities for health professionals to serve in short-term missions worldwide. List ranges from vounteer international, to longer term paid positions, to domestic sites such as "Ameritribes" . Medical Ministries International mmint.org MMI is committed to meet the need for medical care among the world's poor with lasting solutions through excellence in medicine, patient care, and health education.   Provadenic http://www.provadenic.org/ Promoting health by treating and educating the many communities which do not receive any health services from the Nicaraguan government or any other organization.   Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International bmdmi.org Christian, non-profit organization offers primary care encounters to impoverished people through medical-dental volunteer mission teams. Diversion http://www.diversionmag.com Mix up your travel or CME with volunteer opportunities at home and abroad from Diversion Magazine. Child Family Health International CFHI Child Family Health International (CFHI) is a global family of committed professionals and students, designed to offer students an international rotation with hands-on clinical experience, much like what you would experience during a rotation in the United States. Work the World Work the World - UK based Professionally organized healthcare student placements in Africa and Asia   Long Term, International Tanzania Mark Guilzon - Advance for PAs In Tanzania's Rukwa Valley, Mark Guilzon and his family will work to begin building a $50,000 Mercy Medical Clinic and a house for themselves, starting January 2008. Consider contributing to his efforts at: The Guilzon family Medical Mission to Southwestern Tanzania or send a check written to Delmar Full Gospel Church with "Mercy Medical" in the memo to: Delmar Full Gospel Church PO Box 31 Delmar, NY 12054 Foregn Service Health Practitioner US Dept of State United States Department of State employs Foreign Service Health Practitioners in support of the employees of the US government and their eligible family members.