How to Get Involved with Medical Mission Trips

Posted by Susan California on March 1st, 2019

Medical Mission trips offer learnings of a lifetime. It’s a journey of a lifetime both personally and professionally. These missions are more than often taken in developing countries. The main purpose of such missions is to help people in need of medical attention.

Here are a few basic advantages of Medical Mission Trips:

•Helps you to practically apply the knowledge you have learned and gained over the years.

•Community in need of medical aid will get medical aid.

•It broadens the view of health care systems worldwide.

•When deployed to areas hit with natural calamities, it helps you take on the spot lifesaving decisions, sharpening your instincts and skills

•It helps one to understand the unfortunate condition people will live in

•Personally, it makes you realize how blessed one is to have all the little things in life one takes for granted.

•Broadens the view of humanity and increases empathy.

There are various ways in which one can get started on Medical Mission Trips. But here are the pointers to get you started.

•Decide on the reasons of why you want to take up the mission.

•Once the reasons are known, decide on when and where is it that you would like to serve.

•Check if the city where you would like to serve needs your area of expertise.

•Find out various missionaries or organizations that undertake the missions to the regions.

•Once you know why, when, where and how, arrange the finances required for the mission.

Once all the other resources are in place, find out the way in which you can start collecting information about the region and the required facilities.

•Hit local libraries for books with first-hand experience accounts of people who have already undertaken missions in the regions

•Check out the regions medical information, and get an overall idea of the medical schemes implemented in the region.

•Check the libraries, for papers presented on the finding of the health reports.

•Attend or check out for seminars presented on the needed healthcare facilities in the region.

•Talk to other participants and start gathering the required medications and other required resources.

Planning and Preparations for the medical mission trip:

•Once you have decided to travel, ensure you have all the travel documents handy. Make sure your passport, visa, travel tickets, identity cards, and other necessary documents are in order.

•If traveling to different country ensure you have the proper foreign currency at hand, to cater to your local expenses.

•Have the recommended immunization and vaccines before you undertake your travel.

•Make sure you have proper supplies to last long for your trip. You need to pack light for the travel and ensure you take only essentials items with you.

•Talk to the travel organizers to get the list of required items and the luggage weight limitations. Make sure to pack within the specified limitations.


The Medical Mission Trips are an enlightening experience. Not only it enhances medical skills but also helps you understand people, their traditions and their culture, and also experience the basic human nature of the locals.