Medical mission trips?

Question

im just wondering what these trips are all about. and if you need to be EMT certified to be able to go on one. any incite is extremely helpful

Answer 1

I went on a trip to Kenya a long time ago with Operation Smile.  It was amazing.

http://www.operationsmile.org

We did hundreds of surgeries in a week.

To go on medical mission trips you need more than EMT certification.  They are staffed by qualified physicians and nurses.  The trip I went on was mostly physicians, actually, and we used some local Kenyan nurses.

If you know a second language and have medical experience, there might be organizations that could use you as a translator.

(BTW, the word you are looking for above is "insight" not "incite".  Incite means starting a riot, and that's definitely not needed!)