The College of Health Sciences mission trips are interprofessional with students from Kinesiology, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Physician Assistant programs.
Student health professionals on mission in Malawi.
Application due: Sept. 16, 2019 Estimated trip cost: $1,650-$1,700 (based on a team of 28)
In December, Lipscomb College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences along with Belmont College of Pharmacy will lead a joint medical mission trip to Honduras. The students and faculty from both Lipscomb and Belmont will partner with Jovenes en Camino to meet medical needs in rural Honduras. During the week, team members will participate in triage, assist physicians in seeing patients, and provide pharmacy services such as patient counseling and care, prescription dispensing, and more. Some of these clinics will take place on Jovenes campus in the newly constructed Pharmacy that both schools help build. The team will also conduct mobile medical clinics in the El Zamorano community and assist Jovenes en Camino in their other daily ministries and spiritual outreach.
This team will serve at the Hope Medical Clinic in Destin, Florida. They will provide free, volunteer and donor-driven health care for the working uninsured and the medically underserved.
Estimated trip cost: $1,750 (based on a team of 16) Application due date: Oct. 30, 2019
This trip to Honduras will be very similar to the trip in December except it will be only students, faculty and staff from Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Belmont will do their own trip during their spring break). The team will again partner with Jovenes en Camino to meet medical needs in rural Honduras. During the week, team members will participate in triage, assist physicians in seeing patients, and provide pharmacy services such as patient counseling and care, prescription dispensing, and more.
Estimated trip cost: $3,500 Application due date: Oct. 30, 2019 Eligible to apply: Current junior nursing and P2 Students.
In partnership with the Landmark Church of Christ in Montgomery, Alabama, a team of students, alumni, and faculty from Lipscomb's School of Nursing will spend two weeks serving alongside the staff of Blessings Hospital in Lumbadzi, Malawi. The team will provide assistance in the hospital itself, mobile medical clinics, and more.
