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Dr. Fountain |
On Saturday morning, September 23, 2006, students and community physicians converged on Rochester from as far as Connecticut to attend our Upstate MCCF Retreat - a stimulating day of feasting, fellowship, and education. The day started with our Fall Christian Physicians Breakfast where Dr. Daniel Fountain, MD, MPH, began the first in a series of 5 informative and discussion-provoking sessions on the subject:
"What's wrong with US health care and how can we fix it?"
Schedule
8:00
Registration and Breakfast 9:00
Problems
with the biomedical model and the US health care system 10:00
Restoring
wholeness to medicine from both scientific and biblical
perspectives 11:00
Wholistic
approaches to common psychosocial problems Noon Lunch and Discussion 1:30 How to do a personal and spiritual assessment 2:30
The
logistics of forming a care giving team |
Dr. Sherry O'Donnell, one of Dr. Fountain's close colleagues in whole person medicine while he was in Michigan, joined us and shared in the teaching.
The Retreat was hosted at The Meliora Faculty Club on the U of R River Campus and was a wonderful time of spiritual nurture and growth for all who attended.
Whole Person Medicine Workshop
On September 25-27, 2006, Dr. Dan Fountain conducted a 3-day workshop on "Caring for the Whole Person" at Roberts Wesleyan College. Dr. Morehouse assisted him again this year. The course was open to pastors, counselors, students, and health professionals in our region and offered up to 21 hours of CME credit for physicians who attended. Click here to view a PDF Brochure for the Workshop. PowerPoint presentations of many of the sessions are accessible through the schedule posted online here.
Winter Christian Physicians Breakfast
Our annual Missions Breakfast was held on Saturday morning, February 10th, from 9-11 am at the Meliora Faculty Club on the River Campus. Speakers included:
Dr. Jeff Harp - Haiti mission
Drs. Nick Venci and Chuck Culbertson - Senegal mission
Jared Tomlinson - Ghana mission
Dave & Diann Conquest - Dr. Keir Thelander's work at Bongolo Evangelical Hospital in Gabon, Africa
Dr. John Seaman - Disaster Preparedness
Information about the upcoming CMDA Global Health Outreach trip to Nicaragua in 4/07 was also presented.
The Thelanders of Gabon
On April 29 and 30, Joanna and Keir Thelander shared about what God is doing at Bongolo Hospital in Gabon, Africa, with a report about their experiences with medicine in the jungle, heat and humidity, electrical storms, their missionary family, God’s many provisions for Luke and Sarah, the new AIDS clinic, the road to Libreville, and the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons.
Spring Christian Physicians Breakfast
Our Spring Breakfast was held on May 5th at the Meliora Faculty Club on the River Campus. Dr. Chet Fox, a faculty member at UB with years of experience as a family physician, shared with us about "Praying with Patients: Tips, Tricks, and Traps."
Regular meetings:
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Weekly meetings:
A small group met through the year for Bible study, fellowship, and evangelism.
Time: Thursday evenings, 7:30 pm.
Place: Alternating between houses (we e-mailed address/directions every week)
What to bring: Decided the week before, so if you came without notice, nothing! Just yourself, and a friend if you liked.
Subject: This was more of a Bible discussion group, but we did try to stick to Scripture. The passage (1-2 chapters) was picked out each week by one of us. We all tried to read & think on the passage during the week, and come with our thoughts, ideas, perspectives, and questions for each other. There were times in the past when we deliberately/systematically studied books of the Bible or topics, but this was where we were this year.
Every other week, we met to discuss a Scripture passage. We didn't have an official teacher or leader but tried to "sharpen" each other by sharing our thoughts and perspectives on the passage of the week.
On the intervening Thursdays, we hosted a dinner at one of our houses and invited others to come, specifically those who might not have been comfortable with a "Bible study" per se, but who might have been interested in church/Christianity. On those days, we did not necessarily study the Scriptures, although we had a passage picked out in case people were interested in discussing it.
We came from various churches in the community and would enjoyed having others join us, whether it was twice a month for dinner, or on a more regular basis. Our group was relatively heterogeneous, with a few seminary students, one or two people who were young, single, and working, a missionary (yup! right here in Rochester - and we need it, too, if you haven't noticed), and med students.
Past Activities
Click here for a history of activities in previous years.