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Showing How Hospitals Operate

Main Line School Night will introduce medical experts and equipment to students - stress-free.

The Philly Inquirer Sun, Sep. 16, 2007 By Bonnie L. Cook
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/montgomery/nabes/20070916_Showing_how_hospitals_operate_1.html

[..."No doubt about it, getting wheeled into an operating room is a frightening prospect," said Bryn Mawr Hospital's David McGinnis, a urologic surgeon. But help is on the way: a new "mini medical school" for adults being offered by Main Line School Night in tandem with Main Line Health. The series is designed to give students informal time with medical experts, such as McGinnis, whom they might not otherwise get to know. It also gives them a rare view behind the scenes at a major hospital.

Mini medical school was the brainchild of Michelle Stewart, Bryn Mawr Hospital's communications and marketing manager. She had attended a series of science classes at the night school and thought a similar series based on patient care might be interesting. Stewart's course proposal consisted of lessons built around six subjects: the body, managing health, diagnostic tools, medicines, surgery, and the business of running a hospital.

For McGinnis, who specializes in removal of cancerous prostate glands using a robotic device, the decision to take part was a no-brainer. "Education is a lot of what I do with patients so they understand the technology that comes to bear on the situation," McGinnis said. "It's all of a piece." He and patient-care manager Lynne McGrath will conduct a tour of the operating room, where the hulking robotic device sits. She'll talk about measures the staff takes against infection and errors. They will have one student lie on the operating table. McGinnis will demonstrate how he looks through the robot's viewer, and conducts the procedure without putting handheld instruments on the patient. "This machine works by virtual reality," he said. "It feels like I'm inside the body." As McGinnis maneuvers the controls with hands and feet, the computer inside the robot takes his commands and scales them down to the size of the operation. "It's like playing the organ," McGinnis said. The surgeon plans to let pupils sit down and look through the viewer. When people put their hands on a device and see how it works, they lose their fear, he and McGrath said. "Why not have fun with the gee-whiz factor of this nifty tool? It's neat technology," McGinnis said.