Your blogging experience!!

Until this CGF, I have never had a blog before. The closest thing I have ever done was to write on my facebook. Honestly I find this activity very useful when someone is learning how to speak in english, but I think that it’s a problem to me. During the week I have classes from eight o’clock to half past five, and that doesn’t include the personal study and the university tasks (for example investigations, reports, to prepare dissertations, etc.). Two partners presented a short dissertation where they showed a statistic in which they expressed how, in general, the academics from the med school think that the medicine student have thirty hours per day. That is because the courses were designed with contact and home hours. Summing this hours with some time to eat, to sleep, to get to the university and then back home, it gives approximately thirty hours per day.

I just don’t have time to do all the stuffs I should do for the university. I have to choose the most important and leave the other things for later, or there are times when I don’t do them at all.

That’s the main reason why I don’t enjoy to blog. If it were on vacations I would surely have a different opinion about this.

Despite not enjoying it, I believe that it is an enriching experience, because it has really helped me to improve my english. The fact of searching words on dictionaries (yeah, I still use dictionaries!), to think about how to say what you really want to say, helps a lot in different aspects, for example to extend your vocabulary and to improve the confidence when writing. It is also important because being confident about the knowledge of the language is essential when it comes to the fluency at the time of speaking.

As I said it before, if it weren’t because of the issue with the time, I would be really happy to be writing this post right now.

The job market: what would your ideal job be?

I have thought a lot about this issue, and I think that my ideal job would be surgeon. But not any surgeon, I want to be the best surgeon in Chile. In my opinion is the surgeon who has the patient’s life in his hands. Thus is the surgeon the one who really face death, and this gives the surgeon the chance to save people’s lives.

It is difficult for me to work in a team. It’s something I’ve always been troubled, but I know I must to improve it, because in my career I know I won’t be able to perform a surgery alone. I will need my team, like nurses, an anesthesiologist, and physician assistances, etc.

The reason why “surgeon” is my ideal job is because of many reasons, including the previously commented. One of them is the prestige the title of surgeon gives. There is also the money. It gives me the possibilities to fulfill my expectations of life (to travel, to have a nice house, modern car, a big family and very important is not to worry about how I’m going to pay for the school of my children). I know that it’s a very demanding job, but I’m very organized with my schedule and I think that I’m going to make compatible my ideal job with a “family life”.

Despite this is my ideal job, the career of medicine offers a lot of fields, in which physicians can explore their opportunities to inquire in diverse specialties in order to improve their abilities. Therefore I would like to try other areas besides surgery, like investigation, teaching or internal medicine.

Free Post

In this free post, I will talk about one of my favorite hobbies, to play PlayStation 3. I just finished the best video game I've played in my life, “Assassin’s Creed II”. I started playing video games when I was about 8 years old, along with my cousins. The first game I played was Pokémon It’s a game for the console “GameBoy”, but we didn’t have a GameBoy, so we played it on computer with a GameBoy’s emulator. We spent hours playing games on the second floor, very entertaining. We played together games like “Rayman” or “Need for Speed III”. But then, due to family issues, we stopped meeting as much as we used to did, in fact we stopped seeing each other at all. About that time I knew the PlayStation 2 and also my taste for games evolved. I kept playing the different stages of “Need for Speed”, but also I discovered games like "The Godfather" and "Grand Theft Auto San Andreas".

Then I became a teenager and I forgot all about games. I stopped playing because I thought it was very immature. I had my mind busy with the studies and the parties. I got into university and met my actual boyfriend. He likes a lot the videogames, and he introduced me to the world of “Assassin’s Creed II”. I was amazed with the graphics and the history, the best I’ve never seen. It is set in Italy, during the renaissance. Ezio Auditore is the main character, he has a happy life in Florence, but one day guards came to his house and they arrested all the men of his family, in order to execute them because of a crime they didn’t do. That’s where Ezio’s journey began, a journey to become the legendary Master Assassin.

Education and prevention in health care

Today in class we discussed about education and prevention in health care. As a future doctor, I think the Chilean health-care system may, and should be changed, it is inefficient in many issues, including education and prevention in health. In my opinion these issues are very important. I believe that they are the foundation of a good health system. Therefore in order to observe a significant improvement, it is necessary to address these issues from the individual to the state. Each of the social agents (individual, family and state) have an important role in education and prevention, but their individual functions are not enough, they must work together to achieve the goal. For example, the individual has the duty to inform himself, the family has the mission to educate their children (it is a primary socialization agent) and the state must create the instances to reach that objectives. To promote education and prevention in health is therefore necessary that each of the agents becomes aware of their role, and that also fulfill that role.

In my position I can do a lot to help people improve their health. The physician has a strong educational role; he/she provides education in each treatment. This education is given to individuals and families. On the other hand, the doctor may also be involved in the creation of public policies, including the one where the state is participating.

In summary, the Chilean health system should be improved, and it is in our hands to make this happen soon.

Your favourite subject

I haven’t had a lot of subjects so far, so it wasn’t very difficult for me to think about which one is my favorite is. Undoubtedly, my favorite subject is by far Anatomy, even thou it isn’t a subject by itself (because it forms part of the subject morphology). I love to learn about the human body. It is so amazing to really know what it’s under our skin, because until now I could only guess, or make inferences about it. Since I was young I dreamt of becoming a surgeon, and knowing about anatomy is the basis of that role. Not knowing a single nerve during an operation can make the difference between a successful surgery and leaving the patient without sensibility, for example, in the palm of the hand. It’s the same with an artery, it can make the difference between live or death.

I must say that it was very different from what I expected. The most important difference was that it required a lot more memory, and lesser understanding than the other subjects and it meant to me a higher grade of difficulty.

Nowadays, I am an active participant of the “assistants-students' program”, as an anatomy’s assistant, because I believe that it will contribute to my known about the human-body's anatomy.

Your future as a health professional

When I was in school I wanted to become a lawyer or a doctor. It was a very difficult decision, and in the school I had to decide between the humanistic or the scientific field. So, I checked the possibilities. In my school the scientific field was very good and the humanistic area was too bad, and that’s why I chose the scientific area and then it was obviously to me that I had also decided to become a doctor.

Respecting to my expectations I dream of becoming a great surgeon, I want to help people and obviously to save lives. To fulfill my goals I must work very hard, and this is what I do every days.

When I get graduated, I would like to start working right away, because if I want to be a great surgeon I believe that I must to do it that way. But I also would like to start a family and have children.

This career is beautiful and I definitely do not regret of choosing it. In my opinion I would like to recommend my friends to study the same career as me, but I have to warning them about the hard work that it implies, and the little time of sleep that it leaves.

Your studies: a person you admire in your field

Andreas Vesalius was a physician and an anatomist of the Middle Age. He was born in 1514 Brussels and he died in 1564 Greece. He wrote one of the most important books on human anatomy "De humanis corpori fabrica". He proposed hands on direct observation as the only reliable resource in the anatomy knowledge, which was a huge break with the medieval practice.

I admire Vesalius because he was a brave; he was the first physician that questioned Galeno with solid evidence. And as a result, he was capable of publishing a correction of Galen's anatomical text and he began writing his own text.

Incredibly this anatomy´s giant was recognized in his time, in fact, he actually was invited as imperial physician to the court of Emperor Charles V.

The genius of Vesalius is recognized in our days, he is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy.