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International Medical Corps
11500 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 506
Los Angeles, CA 90064-1524
Contact: International Recruiter
Tel: 00 310-826-7800
Fax: 00 310-442-6622
e-mail: imc@imcworldwide.org
website: www.imcworldwide.org
IMC's Mission
International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit
organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through
health care training and relief programs. Established in 1984 by
volunteer United States doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary,
nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve
the quality of life through health interventions and related activities
that build local capacity in areas worldwide where few organizations
dare to serve. By offering training and health care to local populations
and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility
to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated
health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
Training: IMC's niche
IMC's doctors, nurses, midwives and administrators come from all
over the world with a common goal: to share their knowledge with
colleagues in regions where health care systems have been crippled
by crisis and chaos. Our staff of experts help develop programs
to improve health care for the most vulnerable, especially women,
children and the elderly. We give local medical professionals the
skills and confidence they need to rebuild their tattered societies
and create self-sufficient health care systems. Those who train
with IMC go on to teach others in their communities, thus expanding
IMC's legacy of caring.
Where There Is Need
Since it's founding, IMC has responded to more than 35 crises in
four continents, in regions including Afghanistan, Albania, Angola,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia, Croatia,
Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia,
Honduras, Indonesia, Ingushetia, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova,
Mozambique, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nambia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Rwanda,
Serbia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, southern Sudan, Thailand, Uganda,
Ukraine, F.R. Yugoslavia, and Zambia.
Our health care services include treatment and training in:
- Maternal and child health care
- Immunization and cold chain management
- Disease prevention
- Emergency medicine and trauma care
- Reconstructive and rehabilitative surgery
- Nutrition services
- Health education
- Hospital and clinic reconstruction
- Sanitation management
- Health assessments and water resource development
Opportunities available
Please see website for currently available positions.
Conditions of Service
Although we do accept volunteers for our positions, we generally
ask for a minimum commitment of three to six months due to our concern
with the continuity of our programs. For medical positions, we accept
certified nurses, MDs, people who have recently completed their
residency and advanced residents. The easiest way to gaining international
experience is to volunteer your time abroad if you have the means.
This is not necessarily a prerequisite for all of IMC's positions,
but background in this area does make you a more competitive applicant.
Knowledge and fluency in foreign languages is extremely helpful,
particularly in French and Spanish.
How to Apply
Please submit your resume with a cover letter by email to imc@imc-la.org
Send your resume as a Word or WordPerfect attachment or send a
text version. We strongly encourage you to send your resume by email
as we are establishing an electronic database of applicants.
How Can I Help?
You can't pick up a newspaper, turn on the television news, or
surf the Internet without stumbling upon a story about a humanitarian
crisis somewhere in the world. Violence, disease and natural disasters
plague nearly every corner of the globe, impacting mothers, fathers,
children, and grandparents. These people have dreams and aspirations
just like we do, but circumstances prevent them from satisfying
even the most basic needs, including medical care.
You can make a difference in their lives. Your tax-deductible donation
to International Medical Corps is crucial in ensuring IMC's ability
to continue its programs that provide care, training and comfort
where everything else has been destroyed. With your generous support,
IMC can:
Purchase vaccines and emergency medical supplies to vaccinate children
against disease and prevent thousands of needless deaths.
- Respond to emerging epidemics, such as sleeping sickness and
river blindness in South Sudan.
- Rehabilitate health clinics in remote regions, thus providing
access to care where none had existed.
IMC offers four different giving options:
Rapid Response Fund: Your gift to the Rapid Response Fund allows
IMC to move fast when an emergency strikes in any region of the
world. Our Rapid Response Fund pays for emergency medical care when
need is the greatest and suffering is most acute. By reaching sick
and injured people when a crisis first occurs, IMC doctors and nurses
can help prevent greater health emergencies such as infections and
disease epidemics from escalating further.
Training and Capacity Building Initiative: At the core of every
IMC initiative is the mandate to train local medical professionals.
Through education and support, IMC teams help local doctors, nurses,
community health workers and midwives improve their health care
systems. Your donation to the Training and Capacity Building Initiative
helps give local health care workers the tools they need to sustain
and build upon the quality programs they've helped implement.
Mother and Child Health: More than 80 percent of all displaced
people in the world are women and children. IMC's mother and child
health programs ensure that youngsters, mothers and women of childbearing
age get the special attention they require, regardless of the adverse
situations in which they live. By contributing to this fund, children
can be vaccinated, and their growth can be monitored. Your gift
also helps women receive pre- and postnatal care, diagnosis and
treatment of gynecological problems including sexually transmitted
infections, and counseling in family planning. In addition, IMC
uses this fund to develop HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs.
General Support: Crisis situations are hard to predict, and the
costs associated with responding to them can be even more difficult
to pinpoint. A refugee camp with 25,000 people can quickly swell
to more than 500,000. Epidemics can strike. A violent conflict could
escalate, leaving thousands of injured civilians with limited access
to medical care. Yet IMC teams continue their work>no matter what
new horror develops. A general support gift can by used by IMC to
fund any of our programs in any part of the world, including the
delivery of health care services, the purchase of medications, and
training for local caregivers.
IMC has received tax-exempt status as a publicly supported organization
as provided by the Internal Revenue Code under section 501(c) (3)
and the California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 23701 (d).
To make a donation use your credit card to call IMC's donor hotline
at (800) 481-4462.
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