Students praised following Ghana hospital knowledge exchange visit

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Six advanced practice apprenticeship students from the University of Huddersfield have been praised for being incredible ambassadors for the university following a knowledge exchange visit to Ghana.

Jennifer McVay, Laura Shepherd, Lyndsey Hinde, Chloe Gough, Rosemary Uchechukwu and Sally Stables, are all studying on the Advanced Practice (Apprenticeship) MSc.

The students were accompanied on their visit to the teaching hospital at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) by three of their lecturers, Professor Melanie Rogers, Charlotte Barker and Angela Windle plus an affiliate lecturer, Dr Deb Gray, from Old Dominion University, West Virginia.

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“The students were asked to support a health clinic for children and staff at an orphanage on the day we arrived in Kumasi, followed by five days at KNUST," Charlotte Barker explains.

Angela Windle adds, “We wanted our students to learn from their experience, and KNUST UHS were really keen that it was a knowledge exchange between the two of us. Our students joined teaching ward rounds, and they attended lectures on public health issues like Mpox and sickle cell disease. They were really useful, as these are not areas our students would have anywhere near as much knowledge on as our colleagues from KNUST.