Our students have vocalized wanting to gain worldly experience outside of classroom limitations. Through our conversations, we find that many of them have not visited other countries besides their own, or even explored locally what our city has to offer. When we ask them what piques their interest in travel, their answers are consistent: to experience other foods, beliefs, music, art, languages, and overall lifestyles. In short, they want to travel to learn because “there is always more to know,” as one student put it - and one cannot argue with that logic.
Students will engage in a healthcare-related tour in England and Scotland. We will visit museums such as the Wellcome Collection and National Museum of Scotland. We will also visit medical institutions like The London School of Medicine and Dentistry for our students who are interested in studying abroad. Moreover, we will engage in healthcare-themed activities including a forensic science workshop and a lecture on Edinburgh’s grave robbing history. This trip will give them a chance to recognize how their lived experiences and perspectives have not only shaped their own identities, but how it contrasts with different people around the world. Overall, they will learn beyond the classroom because “there is always more to know.”