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MOBILE, Ala. - A group of surgeons from The Orthopaedic Group, P.C. in Mobile have returned from a mission trip to Honduras in June. Surgeons from the practice lead a team of 22 medical students from the University of South Alabama on a two-week trip to help train local medical teams as well as treat patients in Honduras.

This is the fourth trip that joint replacement specialist, Dr. Robert McGinley, has led to the capital city of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, and the third trip with medical students from the University of South Alabama. Accompanying McGinley on the mission trip this year will be sports medicine specialists, Drs. Stephen Cope and Albert Haas. The intended goal of these mission trips is to establish an ongoing reciprocal program with doctors and medical residents from Honduras to come to Mobile for training.

The group of physicians and medical students worked at Hospital Escuela, a teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa, providing training to the staff physicians at the hospital and their residents in a variety of orthopaedic techniques, including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repairs and total joint replacements. A smaller group, consisting of medical students, traveled to the mountains of Honduras and worked at a medical clinic providing primary medical care to area locals. McGinley says that because of the work the medical students from the University of South Alabama have done, the clinic in the mountains is open year-round.

"It is wonderful to see the difference we can make in peoples' lives," says McGinley. "I am ...

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