The registry maintains a data base of doctors and practitioners who have met its criteria for registration for humanitarian medicine personnel, to dispatch as needed to administer to the needs of poor in the areas of poverty relief, education, health care and community development.
CRETERIA FOR REGISTRATION
DOCTOR of MISSIONARY MEDICINE (DMM)
This level is reserved for qualified physicians and surgeons who perform serviceable and charitable acts of emergency and relief assistance to disaster zones. They must provide evidence of medical training and licenses, and in addition be familiar with some aspects of traditional natural medicine health care.
DOCTOR of HUMANITARIAN SERVICE (DHS)
Doctors at this level deliver traditional and natural medicine health care geared towards the poor through clinics for humanity programs world wide.
This group includes but is not limited to: naturally oriented medical doctors (MDs), chiropractors (DCs), Medical Osteopaths (DOs), Dentists (DDSs), Homeopaths (HDs), Naturopaths (ND/NMDs) and traditional Natural Medicine Doctors (DNMs). DNMs must provide evidence of 4,000 clock hours of formal training; including basic medical sciences (those without formal in basic medical science will be registered at the PHS level).
Allopathic trained doctors are required to have obtained additional training of at least 100 clock hours in one of the following areas of natural medicine:
- Botanical medicine
- Medical acupuncture
- Homeopathic first aid
- Biological medicine
- Rural medicine healthcare
- Traditional eclectic medicine
Natural medicine trained professionals are required to have obtained additional training in at least one of the following areas
- Wilderness medicine
- Rural medicine health care
- Missionary medicine
- Well drilling and water filtration
- Child birth
PRACTITIONER OF HUMANATARIAN SERVICE (PHS)
Para medical practitioners must provide evidence of 2,000 clock hours of medical/paramedical training and clinical experience.
This category of registrants is required to participate in Clinics for Humanity and work in collaboration with doctors of humanitarian/missionary medicine.
- Nurses must receive additional training in at least one aspect of natural medicine therapeutics.
- Massage therapists must receive medical missionary or wilderness medicine training.
- Natural Health/ Naturotherapy practitioners must receive training in missionary medicine or wilderness medicine.
Note: The Doctor of Missionary Medicine (DMM), Doctor of Humanitarian Service (DHS), and Practitioner of Humanitarian Service (PHS) designations are exclusive to WONM and clearly identify our mission for humanitarian and missionary medicine.
CRITERIA FOR RENEWAL
- Doctors: forty (40) hours of Clinics for humanity community services per year plus renewal donation
- Practitioners: twenty(20) hours of Clinics for Humanity community services per year plus renewal donation
WONM registry approves and provides referrals to educational institutions and programs to upgrade practitioners, in order to meet the requirements for registration and continued competency in humanitarian and missionary medicine delivery.
WONM CLINICS FOR HUMAITY ASSOCIATES
This category is open to organization that engaged in humanitarian activities and would like to collaborate with WONM while offering valuable service to the poor. A certificate as a WONM Clinics for Humanity ™ Certified organization is issued upon acceptance and a donation for Clinics for Humanity is required.
WONM Clinic for Humanity Organization Certified must provide evidence of at least 100 hrs of humanitarian activities per year to maintain membership.
