{"id":51004,"date":"2014-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/11\/12\/international-rotation-offers-new-lessons\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:31:17","slug":"international-rotation-offers-new-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/11\/12\/international-rotation-offers-new-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"International rotation offers new lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>There\u2019s a lot to learn in medical school &#8212; they say it\u2019s like drinking from a fire hose.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s nothing like what three adventurous fourth-year medical students from UNMC learned during their international medicine rotation in Shanghai, China. <\/p>\n<p>Like how to wash your clothes in a bathtub using chopsticks to create a whirlpool and a little agitation in order to get your clothes clean.<\/p>\n<p>Or where the best Mongolian noodles are &#8212; in their case, a five-minute walk away from their hotel on the Jiao Tong University campus.<\/p>\n<p>Or to never, ever drink a hot juice sold by a street vendor no matter how good your new Chinese friend tells you it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt tastes and smells like stinky feet,\u201d said Emily Signor, who with fellow medical students, Skye O\u2019Hearn and Marshall Bahr, learned the hard way why it\u2019s called stinky bean juice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very traditional drink enjoyed mostly by the older generations in China,\u201d their friend Rao Yao, a student at Jiao Tong University, told them between giggles.<\/p>\n<p>Signor, O\u2019Hearn and Bahr spent a month learning what the Chinese health care system is like, all while learning how to navigate the streets of Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of the best rotations I\u2019ve been on,\u201d Bahr said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is so nice. The hospitality is unreal. I never felt unsafe or unwelcome,\u201d O\u2019Hearn added.<\/p>\n<p>While on a surgical rotation in the hospital, the students were a little surprised to see the medical staff and surgeons barefoot and wearing crocs in the operating room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too expensive to use the disposable shoe coverings like we do in the U.S., so they sterilize the slip-on shoes after each use and place them in a bin in the surgical bays,\u201d Bahr said.<\/p>\n<p>The students also enjoyed a little acupuncture lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an art,\u201d Signor said. \u201cThe needles are so tiny you can\u2019t just poke it into your arm or they\u2019ll just bend. 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