Ewha Med J.  2017 Jan;40(1):1-8. 10.12771/emj.2017.40.1.1.

Past, Present, and Future of Ewha Medical Care

• Jung KY
• Shin SJ

• KMID: 2367890
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12771/emj.2017.40.1.1

Abstract

Historically, Ewha University Medical Center roots from Boguyeogwan, which was founded by missionaries in 1887 as the first women's hospital. Inheriting the spirit of missions, Ewha Medical Care (EMC) is an official missionary activity of Ewha Womans University that provide regular mission trips to offer medical services in underdeveloped countries. The first EMC trip was to Nepal in 1989 at the request of Nepalese Sakura Rajbhandary, a graduate of Ewha Womans University Medical School. Mission trips continued to Nepal from 1989 to 2001, and since 2003 mission fields were changed to Cambodia, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan. Since 2014, EMC has sent 3 mission teams to each countries, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan, every year. The final mission of EMC in the future is to establish a missionary hospital in the third world where medical service is in need as Boguyeogwan was established by missionaries to protect and save poor Korean women in the past.

Keyword

Ewha Medical Care; Medical missionary; Boguyeogwan

MeSH Terms

Academic Medical Centers
Cambodia
Female
Humans
Missionaries
Nepal
Religious Missions
Schools, Medical
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

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  Fig. 1 First trip of Ewha Medical Camp in 1989.

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  Fig. 2 Cover page of photo book of Nepal-Ewha Medical Camp in commemoration of the retirement of professor Kun Hoo Lee.

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  Fig. 3 Professor Koo-Young Jung (center), missionary Kyung-Il Kim and his wife praying in the church of Kampong Cham, Cambodia, 2003.

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  Fig. 4 Medical service in the church of Hanoi, Vietnam (box, missionary Si Chan Kim), 2004.

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  Fig. 5 Lecture (A) and medical service (B, C, D) in the medical school of Urgench, Uzbekistan in 2006.