In the modern era, we are more aware of global health disparities than ever before. As such, it is natural to want to engage in helping to lessen those disparities. This is what we are seeing with short-term medical missions (STMM). Short-term medical missions are a form of unregulated medical service aid from wealthier countries to lower/middle-income countries. The number of U.S. medical physicians participating in these missions has been rising in the last few decades, especially here in Utah.
