Preventing Burnout and Nurturing Resilience

Joining God in global missions through medicine is a great privilege. However, too often healthcare providers who engage in cross-cultural medical missions struggle to remain resilient and often burnout. The journey to burnout has deleterious and even devastating consequences on the health and well-being of the healthcare provider, their family, team members and the very people healthcare providers seek to serve. In this session we will explore some of the key principles for preventing burnout and nurturing resilience so we can grow in our call to serve through medical missions. We will examine what it looks like for a healthcare provider to live out the ancient proverb quoted in Luke 4:23, “…Physician heal thyself…” and discuss practical ways to grow as a winsome witness of Jesus wherever we are called to serve.