The other strand
involves most lessons and lectures given in a foreign language,
usually English or Japanese, which increases fluency
and prepares them for an international career. Chinese
postgraduate nursing programs are still in their infancy, with
the first established at Beijing Medical University in 1992.
By 1998 however, this number had grown to 5 and then to 7
by 2000 (Hong & Yatsushiro, 2003)