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VOLUME 20, NUMBER,4
January 26, 1973
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Media Lab Helps Mold Health Careers
A physician's associate would like to
review an important lecture from his
physiology class for an upcoming
examination. A medical technologist is
assigned to watch two microorganisms,
magnified several thousand times, make
love under a microscope.
An inhalation therapist has left her
notes aboard a southbound Greyhound.
A patient is worried about the brainscan
he is due to undergo in the course of his
treatment.
What to do?
The solutions to these and similar
problems may now be solved through
utilization of the facilities provided by
the Duke Medical Center's Division of
Audiovisual Education and the Durham
Veterans Administration Hospital.
Improved techniques of education are
being developed and incorporated into
existing medical and health education
programs to permit individual learning
experiences supplemental to class
instruction.
Federal funds, derived through
contracts with the Veterans
Administration and the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare awarded
for the fiscal year 1972-1973, are helping
in the endeavor. They provide for the
development and use of audiovisual
educational materials for medical and
allied health students, the production of
patient education films and the continued
operation of a closed-circuit microwave
Hospital Laundry, Meal Statistics
Reach ^Believe It or Not’ Figures
Duke Hospital washed
enough laundry last year to
last the average family of four
for more than 1,000 years.
And it served enough
meals to last the family for
275 years.
Statistics for last year
show that the hospital
processed 3,857,358 pounds
of laundry. For the^ ■
housewife, that would be oneV^
10-pound load a day, 365
days a year for 1,056 years.
The hospital served 1,206,055 meals
during the year, enough to feed four
persons three meals a day every day for
275 years.
Other statistics show that the hospital
cared for 26,004 inpatients last year,
not counting newborn babies. This is up
from 25,142 the year before.
There were 1,860 births at the
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link-up between the medical center and
the V.A. Hospital.
The Media Learning Laboratory,
located in the Allied Health Education
Building at the V.A., makes available to
students materials produced under the
contract. This facility is the center of
much of the activity made possible
through the contracts and contains
reel-to-reel video tape players, recording
equipment, a large supply of 8 and 16
mm study films, slides, audio tapes and
carrels where individuals may utilize the
materials.
The films available concern surgical
procedures, operative dentistry, autopsy
dissections, physical therapy techniques
and anatomy. Audio cassettes discuss
everything from allergic reactions, burrt
therapy and coma to medical problems in
manned space travel, military medicine,-
menopause and obesity.
Also, entire courses have been taped
and catalogued for reference purposes.
"Students are benefited by the
audiovisual resources we are developing
and acquiring," said Nancy Meidenbauer,
educational media producer .for allied
health programs, "in that they can study
at their own pace. They can review
lectures and conferences as often as they
wish to reinforce the knowledge they
gained in the classroom. If an allied
health student misses a class or loses his
notes he can come to the lab and find
what he needs here.
"The professor is benefited in that he
can become more a manager of resources
and have additional time to spend with
individuals or to discuss the finer points
of his subject," she added.
Ms. Meidenbauer works with allied
health faculty designing programs which
will be produced by the Division of
Audiovisual Education and will make use
of slides, video tapes and film series. She
also coordinates workshops and seminars
for students wishing to familiarize
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