COSH – Smoke-free Elite Teens Programme 2022-23

To promote a smoke-free culture to Hong Kong youth, the School supported the “Smoke-free Elite Teens Programme”, which has been organised for the ninth year running by the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (COSH). The 2022-23 programme ran for two days and welcomed about 100 S3 and S4 participating secondary school students each day. Professor Kelvin Wang Man-ping and Dr Derek Cheung Yee-tak shared their experience in tobacco control education and research. An HKU Youth Quitline counsellor also talked about smoking cessation counselling techniques.

Students also toured the clinical laboratories for teacher demonstrations and explanations of the use of different high-fidelity simulators and mannequins in nursing teaching and learning in, for instance, vital signs measurement, auscultate lung and heart sounds, wound dressing, IV injection, obstetric abdominal palpation, etc.