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Webinar: Biomedical Support at Samaritan’s Purse

March 8, 2022 By Megan Harris

Jim Moore and Monte Oitker present: “Biomedical Support at Samaritan’s Purse.”

Jim Moore and Monte Oitker

Jim Moore is a Vietnam veteran who has served as a biomedical technician since 1980. He spent 18 of those years at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and the last 24 years with Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission. Jim began supervising the biomedical team in 2005. After entering semi-retirement in 2018, he began serving on an on-call basis. His primary role now is with the deployment of Emergency Field Hospitals, as well as other technical support opportunities when the needs arise.

Monte Oitker graduated from Sul Ross State University in Texas in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology. He completed an associate’s degree in biomedical equipment technology in 2007. Later that year he joined World Medical Mission as a biomedical equipment technician, specializing in X-ray equipment and digital imaging. He has served as assistant supervisor of the biomedical department for the past four years.

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After watching the presentation above, please fill out the following quiz and speaker evaluation to receive 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credit.

Webinar: Biomedical Support at Samaritan’s Purse

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What spurred our founders (Lowell and Dick Furman) to realize the need to support mission hospitals with supplies and equipment?(Required)
During the 1980s what efforts were made by World Medical Mission to help supply these needs?(Required)
What service has been recently added in the Biomedical department, and what do they offer?(Required)
What other programs are biomed technicians utilized in within the ministry?(Required)
Biomed technicians in World Medical Mission steer away from ever working on anything other than medical equipment.(Required)
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This activity will result in a change in my performance (what is done in practice). (Required)
This activity will result in a change in my patients' outcomes (outcomes in patients or patient populations).(Required)
The speaker was knowledgeable and could communicate information clearly.(Required)
Disclosure of real or potential conflicts of interest was made. (Required)
This activity was balanced and free of commercial bias.(Required)
Did this activity address questions and issues relevant to international health and disaster medicine, and/or examine individual diseases and injuries frequently encountered in patients from developing countries and disaster scenarios? (Required)
Did this activity formulate a plan of care for patients encountered in developing countries and disaster scenarios to improve outcomes in these patients?(Required)
Which of the following physician attributes or competencies have been improved? Choose the answer that best describes your improvement.(Required)
Based on information presented in this activity, identify changes in your practice that you plan to implement. If no changes are identified, please explain why.(Required)
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Please identify barriers that could hinder implementation of the changes in your practice listed in previous question. Choose the answer that best describes your hinderance.(Required)

 

 

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