Flying Doctors of America was founded by Allan M. Gathercoal in 1990. Currently it has more than 7000 volunteers in association.

The organization brings together physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

s, dentist

Dentist

A dentist, also known as a 'dental surgeon', is a doctor that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aides in providing oral health services...

s, physicians' assistants, nurse practitioner

Nurse practitioner

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s, registered nurse

Registered nurse

A registered nurse is a nurse who has graduated from a nursing program at a university or college and has passed a national licensing exam. A registered nurse helps individuals, families, and groups to achieve health and prevent disease...

s, pharmacist

Pharmacist

Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...

s, and other non-medical volunteers who give medical and dental care to people in developing countries throughout the world. All of the missions are short-term (one or two weeks), professionally managed and affordable. Each team member makes a small donation to the organization which is used to cover the cost of transportation, lodging and mission expenses. Each year the schedule of missions is posted on the organization's website.

The organization is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization

Charitable organization

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 http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=96136,00.html registered as Medical Mercy Missions, Inc.

Medical Mercy Missions

Medical Mercy Missions, Inc. is the mother organization of Flying Doctors of America.The organization is a 501 charitable organizations registered with the IRS and in the state of Georgia....

 with the IRS http://apps.irs.gov/portal/site/pub78/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.72f1796ad102792acd9e6be24937a759/?javax.portlet.tpst=289c57ca6035546c47564fe84937a759_ws_MX&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=token&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=token and in the state of Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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, DBA

Doing business as

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: Flying Doctors of America.

It is listed in the Encyclopedia of Associations, published by Thomson Gale.http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=ps&titleCode=EA1&dc=null&dewey=null&edition=

It is listed in Idealist - Directory of nonprofit web resources: 16000 organizations in 130 countries.http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/SiteIndex/AssetViewer/view?asset=Org&asset-id=17692-7&keywords=flying&keywords=doctors&sid=82453825-183-eCE