Health Care
Mentor: Ms. Arlene Frances Wu (Health Concept Hong Kong Limited)
Jackie Fung, Kathleen Millamena Faye and Jenny Ng
It was truly an invaluable experience for us to job shadow our mentor, Ms. Arlene Frances Wu, who is a nutrition director, from 27 August to 29 August. On the first two days, we did some research on ketogenic diet and food supplements under the direction of our mentor. We had a nice talk with Ms. Arlene, who gave us good advice on our choice of universities and studying abroad. We also realized that rooting a passion for cooking is an important quality of a nutritionist as we were given the opportunity to prepare healthy food with our mentor and staff from Health Concept on the last day.
Throughout this 3-day job-shadowing, we have developed our research skills when our mentor assigned us meaningful and interesting tasks, for example, when we had to come up with a ketogenic one-day menu for cancer patients, and when we had to find out the pros and cons of various supplements in our current industry. While we all did our research, not only have we gained new knowledge about food and its nutritional aspects, but also learnt the importance of effective communication and enhanced our abilities to collaborate with one another.
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Mentors: Mr. Kenneth Au Yeung and Ms. Anson So (Healing Hands Physiotherapy Centre)
Chloe Chan, Cherry Suen & Hilary Wong
On 23rd July, 2018, we were lucky to have had the job shadowing opportunity at Healing Hands Physiotherapy Centre. Mr Kenneth Au-Yeung and Ms Anson So were our mentors, who were both registered Physiotherapist and clinical educators in Physiotherapy. In the morning, Ms So introduced us to the roles and service areas of physiotherapists. Mr Au-Yeung explained to us the university pathways and career prospects for studying Physiotherapy. Under their mentorship, we were able to gain new insights into the industry.
Throughout the day, we had the opportunity to observe several patients who visited the centre. We observed how our mentors provided patients guidance on doing physiotherapy exercises. Our mentors demonstrated and explained the exercises to patients, as well as ensured that they were exercising correctly. We also learnt that encouragement was an important part of the patients’ recovery. Other than that, we were also allowed to observe some therapeutic procedures, such as acupuncture. It was an eye-opening experience to us all. We also had the privilege to watch our mentor diagnosing a new patient. Our mentor demonstrated useful questioning techniques to assess the patient's level of injury: how long has the pain lasted? what time of the day will the pain be most severe? In addition to questions about the patient's daily activities that may trigger the injury and pain. Such questions and comparisons allowed the physiotherapist to identify the cause of impairment, and decide the suitable therapies.
Moreover, seeing patients on the path to recovery through physiotherapy made us realize the importance of a physiotherapist’s job. After the experience, we have gained better understanding about physiotherapy and we are more convinced to consider it as our future career.
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Mentor: Ms Jessica Fan (Speech & Hearing Therapist, Samlot Speech & Swallowing Clinic)
Janice Yu
During the two-week job-shadowing program, I was provided with opportunity to observe one of my mentors’ speech therapy private-case training with a two-year old child with delayed speech. I was fascinated by the professional means of how speech therapists can guide him in speaking by giving him experiences that were within his zone of proximal development, thereby encouraging and advancing his individual learning such as communicative and socializing skills.
Also, I was allowed to observe the responsibilities and tasks associated with my mentor’s work, through assisting the speech therapists in simple tasks, such as the preparation of teaching aids and worksheets aiming to develop the primary three clients’ chronological thinking.
Moreover, I participated in the two-day ‘One Dim Sum Scheme’ across the job-shadowing program, which allowed me to work towards its aim to facilitate the learning of children from low-income families, under the leadership of all the speech therapists of the clinic.
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Mentors: Ms. Clara Foo and Ms. Viola Wu (Watchdog Early Education Centre)
Cherrie Au, Megan Chan & Natalie Chow
We were very lucky to have a taste of the jobs of occupational, speech, music therapists during our visit to Watchdog Early Education Centre in Jordan from 17th to 20th July 2018. Watchdog Early Education Centre is a place that helps children with diseases such as autism, learning difficulties, hyperactivity and to fulfill their potentials at the earliest age.
By working with these children, we developed a sense of empathy and sympathy, and we became more eager to serve the community. The love of the therapists for the children inspired us a lot. We were astonished by the constant patience and care that they had given. Having a deeper understanding of their jobs, we were more determined to work in the relevant field in the future.
