Technology in my life

This week I have to write a brief essay about the use of technologies within the different subjects I've studied this year. Technology in recently years has increased enormously and almost anyone lives without a piece of technology now, because is so useful and it make everything easier for many people. Since I enter to the university for become a midwife the technology has become in something essential in my life, and no only the technology that helps me do my studies and homework but all the technology that is used for helping people to feel better by all the health professionals.

Technology has many uses depending what you want or what you need. As a student the kind of technology I used is more for doing homework, essay, reports, etc. and, of course, search information about all the subjects I’m doing in this year, like anatomy, histology, physiology, immunology and a lot of more subjects. For doing that I always used the computer, specially interne, and a special link created by the university and all the professors for keeping the contact and has access to all the classes and extra material. Also in classes the professors used a lot of technology like power point presentations that helps a lot when the topic of the class is difficult and microphones too, which help to students to pay more attention and listening well.

In my actual life technology has another use that is, I think, vital in the development of any future health profession, I’m talking about all the instrumental and material that allow us to make our job. Technology is involved in almost every medical process, from something so basic like the thermometer for knowing the body’s temperature until something more complex like a mechanic ventilator that keeps someone alive, and because of that it is very important the education and subsequent practice for learn to use all this tools correctly.

As I said, technology is very useful and have a huge importance in our student and future professional life, no matter what health professional you are or you will become, technology will always be there, sometimes for good and sometimes for bad, but we have to remember that technology is only a help and never will be something better than a person or in this case better tha a health professional. Anyway something is clear, technology always will be something in constantly development and is our responsibility to learn and know how to use it properly, specially for the good of the people, because the people is always the most important when you are a health professional

Challenges in my career

Hello everybody!!!! In this case I’m going to talk about the challenges in my discipline. Well I’m studying obstetric in the University of Chile since this year. In the future, if I pass all the exams I will be a midwife.
Like any health profession, being a midwife involves a lot of complications, I mean, we have two lives in our hands (the newborn and the mother) and it is our responsibility to take care of them. Also we have to develop a lot of skills and knowledge for doing a good job and be an excellent professional.
These things are learned in the university but it is our duty to know how to use them properly.

Also the university and being a student of a health profession have challenges.
First of all, entering the university is a challenge in itself and a very big one because all the students must give a difficult test that takes an whole year (and sometimes more) to prepare it. After entering university you have to try to stay in it because it is so easy to fail and go out of the university. All the tests and exams are terrible and all the assignments, homework, reports, etc. are extremely stressful and exhausting. Passing the exam is another challenge, and if you fail it you have to do the entire subject again and that is a terrible thing because you have to keep studying more years. For other students, paying the university is a complicated challenge because nothing is free and the career is expensive (more than two million Chilean pesos each year and it increases every year) some students have to work for paying their studies, which is really hard.

After finishing the studies, finding a good job is another challenge. Earning money is essential to begin an own life and pay the bill of the university too!!
After all I think that the challenges are doing for be better and in our case to make a professional of excellence. All the challenges are necessary for develop ourselves and to try hard when we really want something.

Improving your faculty

Hello again!!! This day I have to talk about my faculty and how I can improve it.

Well I am in the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Chile, this is one of the oldest constructions of all the university and because of that the infrastructure needs some renovation like the bathrooms, some auditoriums or classrooms, the hospital next to the faculty needs an entire renovation too.

Apart from the structure there are other problems, apparently the money isn’t enough to afford all the equipment and the materials that are necessary for the students, for example when we go to the laboratory we have to share the equipment, that’s not bad but the education would be better if everyone had their own space and equipment. Another example can be the lack of good computers. In the library the computers are a complete disaster!!! They are so bad that nobody can use them. It is impossible to do the homework and this is a terrible situation because some students don’t have internet or computers in their home. Also the communication between the students and the professor is through internet, all the homework, classes and exams are informed through internet.

Unfortunately the solutions would be more money but that is a remote possibility, maybe doing things like parties, games or something like that to raise money could be an option.

Another option could be talk with the people in charge and say them that it is necessary solve the problem for improve the quality of the education because this is our only method for be a better professional in the future.

Hello again!! This week I have to talk about hobbies, there are many of them but each one has a prefer hobby. Personally I have many hobbies, one of them is the reading, I can spent hours and hours with a book, I love the histories about magic, love and mystery and I don’t like the books about murders or about terror, they scare me. My favorites authors are J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, Paulo Coelho and more recently Stephanie Meyer, these are very famous because of their novels that generally are bestsellers, all the people buy them!!. Another hobby I like is watch movies, like the books I like the movies about love, magic and the comedies and I hate the movies about terror, wars or about politics I watch movies for fun not to stress me more !!.
Well my preferred hobbies are drawing and painting, I really love them and honestly I think that I do them very well. I can draw anything, but generally I draw places, forest, the ocean and things like that, also I draw people. About my painting it is very colorful, I don’t like painting with only black and white I am happier if I can use all the colors without limits and usually I mix the colors. I painted since I was a child but I have been developing and improve it since I was ten years. I think that are many people that have a great skill, but everyone can draw no matter how they do it, the important is to try and practice and give all your passion. Now, since I started the second semester in the university, I am in a drawing class and I hope I can be better and improve myself for finally do a beautiful work of art, because this is something that I really love. Well I see the next week!!

Hello again!!! This week I’m going to talk about summer vacations, I love it!! And I only think about the end of university and the beginning of the vacations. But for that I have to wait about two months more...
Well all my life I went to the beach specifically to “Tabo”, this beach is in the fifth region of Chile, is a popular, beautiful and a relatively cheap beach. In those years my family always rented a house for a few days, But some years later all my family together bought a beach house in “Isla Negra” and since then we always go to there for much more time, about one month generally. Isla Negra is known because there is where a famous poet “Pablo Neruda” have his house, is a beautiful house immediately in front the sea, every year we go to his home. In the next summer we are going to go to “Isla Negra” again, like every summer.
Generally when we are in the beach we go all the day to the beach, there my brother and I swim in the ocean, play tennis, climb big rocks next to the sea and eat a lot of ice cream, after that we relax and see the beautiful sunset and walk back to our home. In the night we dress up and go to others cities next to “Isla Negra”, like “Algarrobo”, “El Quisco” and sometimes we enjoy a beautiful dinner next to the sea, or simply walk and walk seen the shops and all the handicrafts. Sometimes we only visit to other family in “Tabo” and have a nice night talking about ourselves.
I travel to the beach always with my mother, father, little brother, my two cousins, my two grandparents and my two dogs, a lot of people!!! But our house is big enough for all them. I really enjoy my vacations, but in the future I want to go to others countries like Australia, France, England, Italy, well I really want to go to the entire world!! I know that is a dream but how knows? maybe sometime in the future I can go!!!

Pregnancy-related diabetes : reducing the risk of complications

Hello again!!! Well in this time I will do a summary about a new item connected with my future career : Midwife.

I chose a new about gestacional diabetes. This disease development during the pregnancy and its symptoms are a high level of sugar in the pregnant woman. The baby`s sugar can be high too and because of that he could have problems during delivery like a caesarean section or a shoulder injury and also he can born with more weight. This affect to the mother too, she can development high blood preasure and in other cases a condition called pre-eclampsia that can produce death.

For reducing risk , pregnant women are checked for gestacional diabetes, more if they have some risk factors like overweight, someone in their family with diabetes or their babys are overweigt, etc. The woman who has this condition is treated advising her to change her diet an doing some exercising. If this doesn´t work the woman is treated using insulin. The problem is that this treatment is only for women that have a mild gestacional diabetes and is not helpful for women who have high level of sugar. What is the solution? : Prevent. Some studies revealed that women with mild gestacional diabetes have more chances to have a good pregnancy and delivery with less complications, also they can be treated without medicins (insulin). So for the pregnant woman is recommended to check for gestacional diabetes with their midwife and follow their treatment and advices , prevent is so easy and this will be the best for her and her little baby.

A sporting life

Hi!!! This week I have to talk about the importance of sports, well pesonally I don´t do sports right now because I don´t have the time and I prefer doing other things like painting or reading. I know perfectly that the sedentary life it´s very bad and doing sports you will have a more healthy and long life. Before I enter to university I usually like swimming and basketball, I love it I could stay in the water hours and hours without boring, it help me to relax and have a good time, now I haven´t organized my time for do it.

Actually the sports has been forgotten because now the people aren´t interested on doing sports, all that they care about is work, studying and doing others things, the good health isn´t important and almost all the population are actually sedentary. For being healthy it is necesary do physical activity and eat properly. The fast food is other problem because of this a big percent of the population are fat and I think in the future this will be worst, all the people will be sedentary and the people will do less and less sports. And this is only a social problem that will affect to entire world.

For stop this it is necesary to encourage the people promoting the good health and all the benefits of the sport, like a better and longer life, less health problems, less aging , etc. Also it is necesary to do more sports activities in the community, maybe more marathons, games and campionships or open community places where doing sports don´t cost so much like in gyms. Maybe doing that kind of things we can improve the health of the people, and believe me, that will be felt inmediately in the welfare of the country.