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Abstract Background Most previous studies on English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in the healthcare field have shown diverse and sometimes contradictory results. There is limited research on the understanding of the educational impacts of EMI in different cultural contexts.Purpose In depth explore the Chinese nursing students' learning experience under EMI teaching mode.Methods Thirty-two undergraduate students from Nursing EMI program were selected using convenience sampling to participate in Focus Group Discussion (FGD).Results Three major themes have been extracted: benefits of English Medium Instruction, challenges encountered during the process of Nursing EMI, students’ suggestions on Nursing EMI. These three major themes encompass fifteen sub-themes.Conclusion The Nursing EMI program has improved students’ comprehensive professionalism and international competency, however, coping with using English as the medium of instruction in China’s Nursing education remains in exploratory stage, and requires further educational revolution.
Liang et al. (2024) studied this question.