Seven traveler from the School of Pharmacy and six from other academic disciplines spent five weeks in guilin, China studying traditional Chinese medicine.

They took field trips to herb farms and pharmaceutical groups, watched acupuncture performed on patients, and studied Mandarin. They also visited hospitals that prescribe herbal medicine and the factories that produce it.

"It was an amazing experience,"says Grzegorz Rdzak, who is in UConn's Pharm.D. program. "I never would have done something like this on my own. I learned a lot about the culture and many aspects of herbal medicine."

Although Western medicine is practiced in China, most citizens rely heavily on traditional Chinese medicine, says the program's director, Diane Burgess, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences.

"Our program focused on herbal medicine, which is becoming a popular method of treatment in the West. We wanted our students to see how this other type of medicine is such an accepted part of the Chinese culture, to learn more about it and how well it works."

Visits to hospitals and other community medical facilities gave students exposure to physicians prescribing and dispensing herbal medicines.

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