Duke University, USA

Rocky Wai-Lok Lee
Micco Tsz-Ching Leung
Year 3, Bachelor of Nursing (Full-time) students

It was our great pleasure to participate in the Exploring Global Patterns of Health and Illness Programme for international students at Duke University in the US. This eye-opening experience allowed us to collaborate with nursing students from different countries including the US, Japan, Korea, Barbados, Ireland, the Philippines, Taiwan and Oman. As a result, we gained insights into different countries’ cultures as well as their healthcare systems and nursing education. Throughout the course, we had intensive, fruitful lectures about global and public health issues that were delivered by various scholars and experts. These experiences definitely contributed to our path towards becoming competent and independent nurses in the future, as it is crucial to have a broad view of patient education and community health. We were also assigned to different multinational teams and cooperated on a final Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) project, in which we aimed to propose evidence-based interventions to tackle public health problems from across the globe.