Duke University, USA

Raymond Tong King-pui | Year 3 Bachelor of Nursing (Full-time) student

In August 2022, I participated in the three-week academic exchange programme, “Exploring Global Patterns of Health and Illness”, at Duke University School of Nursing. It was a truly remarkable experience for me to interact with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds, as well as examine issues in global mental health and emerging pandemic diseases through experiential learning activities, such as conducting a windshield survey about the community on a bus tour and visiting rehabilitation facilities for drug addicts. We were also granted the opportunity to visit Duke University Hospital, one of the largest private hospitals in the United States, and to speak with frontline nurses at the hospital about their working environment and common practices. The academic and cultural immersion programme thus allowed me to identify health system deviations across countries and apply cultural frameworks to compare and contrast patterns of health and illness across the globe.

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