During the 7 days, teachers and students of Kanazawa Medical University experienced experimental teaching in the laboratory of nursing school, visited the Senior Apartment of Jianghan District, Tongji Hospital, Union Hospital, and School Hospital of HUST.In Senior Apartment of Jianghan District, they experienced the lives of elderly people who can take care of themselves, the special care for the disabled elderly, and visited their entertainment room for reading and other activities.

In Affiliated Tongji Hospital, teachers and students visited the departments of endocrinology,orthopedics and urology surgery, including operating room, anesthesia preparation room, intraoperative conversation room. They learned about various methods of humanistic care, preparation of equipment and supplies of operating room,transfer of patients,routine nursing in ICU and daily dialysis care. They also paid a visit to the history museum of Tongji Hospital.At the Union Hospital, teachers and students went to the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Cancer Center to learn the characteristics of medical nursing and daily care, experience an experience lesson for the cancer patients, and learn various kinds of methods for humanistic nursing care . Then they were informed of the hospital’s medical staffing, medical and surgical wards, emergency room settings at the university hospital, gained a basic understanding of the community health system in China.

The teachers and students also visited the History Museum of HUST on the main campus. The evening party further deepened the friendship between the two universities.

Japanese teachers and students showed great interests in the medical equipment and nursing procedures, actively interacted with the instructors, compared diagnostic and treatment technologies with Japan, and highly appraised Chinese medical education, medical scale and facilities, and brilliant achievements.They acquired in-depth knowledge of Chinese clinical care, community care, medical system and culture. The teachers and students of the two universities have learned a lot from the exchanges the comparative strength between themedical status of China and Japan.