 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 medical students
was formed.
 The group grew and by 1934 the
Christian Medical Society was born.
Years later dental students joined
and today CMS is known as the
Christian Medical & Dental
Associations.
 As the students were moving on after training, more interest in CMS (CMDA) was
gradually growing among graduate physicians.
 Foreign missions were a big part of
the vision of the medical students.
 According to an article written by
Dr. Gieser for the Northwestern
University Medical School
Magazine, out of the small group
that met for fellowship in the early
1930s, a significant number went to
the mission field from
Northwestern.
 CMS (CMDA) became the leader in international 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 lifedevaluing 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.
 Grow:
Integrate your
faith and profession.
 Influence: Voice your
values and impact public
policy.
 Grow:
Integrate your
faith and profession.
 Influence: Voice your
values and impact public
policy.
 Fellowship:
Network
with Christian colleagues.
 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 cuttingedge issues … books
and other resources
provide you with
biblically faithful and
medically accurate
information and
inspiration.
 The Christian Doctor's
Digest, an audiomagazine 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:
 CMDA serves as a strong and
credible collective voice for
Christian physicians, speaking
out about:
 Ethical crises in our
profession and our culture.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 Grow:
Integrate your
faith and profession.
 Grow:
Integrate your
faith and profession.
 Influence: Voice your
values and impact public
policy.
 Grow:
Integrate your
faith and profession.
 Influence: Voice your
values and impact public
policy.
 Fellowship:
Network
with Christian colleagues.
 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.
 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 lifechanging 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.
How to add text to new slides.
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 Bullet
2. Edit/Copy
3. 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.
Add your images
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.)
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.
 (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.
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