my LAST BLOG

Hi, this is my last blog, and in this last blog I will discuss my academic performance. Like I have established on previous blogs, I study physical therapy, at the “Universidad de Chile”. Although I like this program, career and the future that represent, my academic performance has not been how I expected. It has been hard, and long, and I have failed in some of the subjects of the program. This means that I will have to repeat the subjects that I have failed this year, in order to keep forward in the program and be a future kineologist.

For start, at the first semester, I failed in the subject which contain histology, embryology and organology. It was not hard; I mean it was not impossible or something that you will never pass, it had required difficulty. I failed in that subject because I am a lazy boy and I miss some of the classes and one of the tests, and for that, I could not take the final exam of the subject.

But, the most difficult and exhaustive subject of all (for me at least) was the subject that contain anatomy. I never was good at anatomy, it was difficult for me to remember all names of structure of the human body, but I understood and associated the names with mnemonic words, so I was save with that. The things that I failed in that subject were the other topics beside anatomy, like immunology, physiology, neuro-anatomy and physic, those were the topics that I failed, because I did not understand them, or just I forgot them as soon as I leave the university. For example, physic was a topic that I understand at the moment, but when the moment to applied my knowledge of it, I did not know what to do, and it was frustrating. The other topics were more difficult, because I did not understand them, much less applied them, so I did not go to the classes or I fell asleep on them, and so, I did not learn a lot from the classes.

At the end I just can say that, despite I did not pass some of my subjects, I am passing others. And I know that if I focus on my goal, and my future want to be, I can get through the university, because I like my future profession, and the thing that I like, I finish them, like functional anatomy (which is one topic of the anatomy subject), that is one of the topics that I understand and it is easy for me. Just like that I will pass all of my subjects no matter what, no matter how many years take me (I hope not to many XD). In this moment, I just know that despite everything, I will be the best kineologist of all. And at the next year I will have the best grades on the subjects that I failed this year, because WHAT DOES NOT KILLS YOU, MAKE YOU STRONGER!!

WHAT I THINK OF MY FUTURE CARRIER

Well, like I have said before, I am studying Physical therapy. In my university this program has been “improve” with a new curriculum, which is a lot different from the last year’s curriculum, and theoretically is much better than the last one and the student will have more free time, all again THEORETICALLY SPEAKING of course. The reality is that, despite the stress and the little free time that we have the new curriculum approach us more to our future than the last year’s curriculum. For example we all ready have contact with patients and we allegedly will be going hand to hand with the students from the old curriculum, which it means that we would be more prepared for when we out of here.

Technologically speaking, the physical therapy is better for the patient than for the kineosiologist in some areas, for example, when making the pressure of the patient, there are new machines that can measure that faster than a person. Which means that we will not have more job for that in the future.

When you ask people from the street what is physical therapy? They only think on people massaging, or maybe one in ten people will answer that is the person who take care of your muscles and bones. But physical therapy is a lot more than that, I think that most people do not know what really does a kineologist, and for that reason, when people are injured with smaller things that a kineologist can fix quickly, they ignore that “small wound” and they have to go to a doctor for that complication of that wound, and it would be more expensive and harder to fix. So I think that the Physical therapy carrier have to be disseminated and explained to the general people, so that everyone know what a kineologist does, and then, we, the kineologists, can do better our work, on the right time to prevent further damages and have more work. At the end all can be resumed that the kineologists can work more if the people know what they really do.

And that is what I think of my future carrier. BYE

My Faculty

I am studying the Physical Therapy program in the prestigious University of Chile, more precisely, in the Medicine Faculty. This has all the programs related with the health, except for the dentistry program that is in the Faculty crossing the street.

The Medicine faculty is a big building with many sections, corridors, outdoor spaces and parking, right next to it, and in the same block there is the Saint J.J. Aguirre’s Hospital, and you can enter the hospital from the inside of the faculty building or from outside. It also has research departments and many auditoriums, a hall of anatomy and a big library where you can do a lot of things like study or researches, or even sleep or eat (these two last things are suppose to be forbidden XD), and a gym that we can use when we want. There are a lot of green areas too where you can lie on to relax and we have two cafeterias.
In general I am very satisfied with my faculty, but I can not hide that there are things that I do not like with it. Like some of the bathrooms, because there is often no toilet paper or the bathrooms are all painted and scratched. But there is one bathroom (the bathroom that is next to the anatomy hall) that is always clean, and every time has toilet paper, the only thing is that is not always open. I really think that all the bathrooms of the faculty should be like that bathroom.
Apart of that I do not have any complain.