Technologies in my career

The most important step in the student´life is ingress to university. Each year millions of young postulate for ingress to the best universities of country. Fortunately I had the opportunity to sing in the best university of Chile: Universidad de Chile. My dream since that I was a little girl..was ingress to medicine... I had my stethoscope...my doctor toy set.. and I was happy with that, but destiny decided other way for me. I enter to obstetric and actually I very happy for that... I feel that my career is fantastic and I love it.

In the first time I thought that university would be easy, but it wasn´t like I supposed. The first week we had a class in computer room and we had to work with a program called Hypercell. This program was in english and was very difficult to use. Teachers teach us web-sites for search health information. Websites like Pubmed or Cielo. These websites are very good but the problem is that they are in english and this is a little more complicated than spanish for me. This initiative of introduce the spirit of self-learnig since startup is very important because the idea of a new education is based in self-learning, where students are capable of search by themselves current information and do their own educational training, without help of a teacher.

Other instance with computer room was each friday in english class. We had to do blogs with a particular theme and write about that and then post to my friends. This experience was easier than the use of hypercell because each one wrote their own opinions. It was very good with respect to practice write-english and know the use of virtual dictionary, improving vocabulary.

With respect to experiences with technology nearer than the use of computer.. I had to learn to use microscope. I love microscope because I can see a lot of amazing things. I remember the first class that I can use microscope. I had to see a tree leaf and was impressive see small worms crawling. Technology goes beyond what we can see.

Is very important that people have a good use of technology since childhood, particulary in this epoch, because now all is based in technololy... information is in internet, , comunication is internet(chat, mail,etc), until trees family are in internet! and in a future no far... We will can do all for internet... and is very probable that the dreamed (nightmare for some) of education only for internet will be reality.

challenges in my discipline

Hi friends! Today I´m going to tell you about my career and the challenges in this. In the different areas of my discipline, there are a lot of challengues for midwives.
For example, with respect to technology there are instruments and objects that I have to learn to use.. for example a spectacle, ultrasound, stethoscope, monitors, technology of delivery room, pressure kit, etc. This should be resolved if we study hard, and practice early the use of pressure kit. stethoscope, etc.. for this we are actually in university.. for learn and be in the future the best midwives and here we will learn the use of the instruments of our discipline. In education the challenge of midwives will be teach to people about topics like sex education, birth control, family orientation, breastfeeding classes, etc...this should be resolved with better educational programs...and for do that we have to know to do a good analysis of population and identify the main needs. This is achieved only if we have the disposition and desire for a healthier society... I mean with vocation. With respect to social Matters, the rol and the challenge of midwives is fight for improve society in relation to health.. for this we need vocation of service and love for job.

The critical issues involved in each area are:
with respect to techcology.. in the future will be more new instruments because te technology is evolving. With respct to education.. day to day therea are new problems in society .. and new challenges for us.. for example new diseases, ore unwanted pregnancies, more deaths for sexually transmitted diseases like SIDA..etc.

I believe that for be a good professional and the best midwife, the most importante is the love for the career.. and with this love.. the challenges that appear on the way .. will be easily solved.

Well friend.. take care. kisses
Fran :)

improving my faculty

Hi friends!! Today I´m going to talk you about my faculty. I study in medicine faculty of "Universidad de Chile". The current situation in my faculty is good in general but lately we have had some problems like manifestations of the non-teaching staff and the most important for obstetric: the dispute between midwives and nurses about the care of baby: neonatology. The college of midwives has do a lot of meetings for search a solution for the situation...but all depends of health minister because she decides if gives the care of baby for nurses (this in my opionon is unjust and ridicule because always midwife has been the responsible of this). In relation of technology of my faculty I believe that all is fine exept computers of library. The computers are very old and only a few are available. My first step to dealing with this situation will be make a survey about the people that want new computers and then present the opinions to dean for search a solution. The real benefits and impact of these improvement will be the speed for do things and the optimization of library because with more computers are more students that are learning. A recomendation will be fight for our rights and require a best technology because is inconceivable that the best university of Chile have not elements so basic like these.

My hobbies

Hi my friends! Today I´m going to talk you about my hobbies. Well I have a lot of hobbies... there are a million of things that I like to do. For example I like to sing, to dance, and my favorite hobbie is play the piano. When I was a little girl always I was singing or dancing! my mom tells me that my favorite song was "the puppy dance" and I dressed me with a mini skirt and danced for all my family... with only three years old!!. With respect to sing.. I love to sing!!I sing since 4 years old approximately, but only when I was 10 years old I know of my true talent. In secundary I joined to choir of my school.I with my choir participated in a lot of contests like "Crecer cantando" and "Festival de coros Andres Bello" We always were clasificates but we never won... I was in choir until 2008, and I was very sad when I had to left it. I left it when I finished secundary. Well I told you that my favorite hobbie was play the piano. I started to play piano at 14 years old. For play piano is necessary have agile fingers and coordination for use both hands. These three hobbies have help me to developed my personality in relation to my humanistic and artistic areas, I have met new people.. developing my sociability. The dance and sing make me get in touch with other people, for example in dance I can have a partner or a group for dance... but when I play piano I work individually or sometimes I play with my sister. She plays piano too.
I hope always can practice my hobbies... but actually I have little time.. because the university deals me my free times.

Well dear friends.... kisses and take care :)
Bye!!!

my holiday destinations

Hi friends... I want to tell you about some places that I would like to visit. I would like to visit Europe in general but especially France and Italy. I always have dream to be in Eiffel tower and see all city at nigh with my family and boyfriend.... in Italy I would like buy the most fashion clothes and go to a great restaurant of pastas. Also a place very different that I would like to visit is Caribe. I would like to relax myself enjoying the sun, the sand and the sea, take a lot of pictures, wear my swimsuit and get a perfect tan! At night obviously go to the greatest disco and dance all night long.I never have traveled out of Chile but I know incredible places. In 2004 I went to Pucon with my family and it´s a beautiful place. In 2007 I went to Pucon again with my friends and it was fabulous!!!. In Pucon is located Villarica´s lake with rent of aqua bike. Villarica´s lake is surprisingly big!!!. Also there are a lot of shopping places, craft fairs, candy shops, mermelade shops and adrenaline!!! because there is a center of sports called Trancura. Trancura offers canopy, rafting, baths and rides.! I was very happy when I experimented canopy and rafting!!!

Well in this summer I believe that I going to "La Serena", with my family including my cousins and boyfriend ...and I like this place because the weather is very sunny. It will be fantastic because always with my cousins I have a great time, we play in the sand, we swim in the beach, we go out at night, etc! In La Serena the principal atraction is “The faro” and the beach ...and obviuslyI will take pictures of all that I see. I going to there in february, but in january I going to Algarrobo with my friends. With they I will take sun all day and at night I going to "Pao.Pao" or "Sub-terra", the best discos of Algarrobo!!!

I hope that your vacation will be fantastis too! bye dear friends :)

Scientists harvest stem cells from placentas for future treatments

link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/23/stem-cells-placenta-cord-blood

The last years scientists have been working in an important health advance. It consists in use placentas after birth because it have cells that can be used for try a lot of complicated diseases like: thalassaemia, leukaemia and sickle cell disease.

Frans Kuypers (of the Children's Hospital and Research Centre) and his team found that placenta contained up to five times as many as cord blood.

There are a lot of types of stem cell and the most versatiles come from embryos .. but there is a big ethical problem in use embryo´s stem cells because some believe that is a crimen ( because they´re killing a life.). However adults have stem cells too...for example in bone marrow...but this cells there aren´t pluripotent like embryos cell... there are multipotent. ( pluripotent cell gives origin at all type of cell.. and multipotent cell gives origin at cells of the same lineage).

Also Kuypers showed that placent had the same characteristics of cord blood, however in placents cells are more primitive, meaning they are more versatile.. A good new is that every time more parents take the decition of freeze the cord blood of their newborn children with the hope that it might one day prove useful for treatments.

A sporting life

hi friends!!...I want to tell you about the importance of sport. I never has been a atletic girl, but I recognize that for have a healthy life, body needs practice any deportive activity...because when you practice a sport ..you are relaxing your body and mind. It would be perfect that every people will practice sports, but only a few are reasone. Practicing differents sport, you can improve your healthy, improve your metabolism, reduce the probability of heart´disease like infarcts, reduce problems of cholesterol, prevent obesity, and the most important relax no only your body, also your mind, forgetting the problems for a moment.
The impact that may sport have on a country's health is fantastic!...If every people in the future will practice a minimun physical activity, one day for week, for example dance, Jogging, walk ( no take locomotion)... healthy problems reduce incredibly in the world, but this is very difficult for now....

I would encourage to do more sport for children because is in childhood when the people acquires habits... if I teach to a child to dofunny gymnastics everydays, he learn that this is the correct, and also like something entertaining.

I don´t know if in the future we will have better sports people, because this depends of the motivation of each person. clearly the love for the sport can have a genetic factor, but mainly the passion for a deport or a physical activity borns of the own motivation.

Try to practice sport!!! Do it for you and for the others..!!!!