"San José miners, the news of the year"

Maybe it was the news of the year all around the world, and also it was a tragedy for all Chilean people. I´m talking about the 33 miners who was trapped in the San José mine, during 70 days.

It was on august 5^th when 33 miners get trapped into San Jose mine. It was a tragedy for all people, because at first minutes, people didn´t know if miners were alive or not. For that reason, specialized people started to do a duct in the area where they supposed that miners where trapped.

It passed seventeen days till they were sure about the supposition, because the duct arrived to the shelter where the miners were trapped. The place was located at 700 meters of profundity, so the condition of life were not the best for human life, that´s why the people in charge immediately started to do things to help miners to be better inside the mine. For example, doctors did an anamnesis to know the health conditions of them, nutritionists made an especial diet, and some technics made an especial telephone to send to through the duct.

But more time had to pass till the miner´s rescue, because the machines had to make a duct bigger than the first one they did, one which the miners could pass to be rescued.
The rescue happened on October the 12^th, after more than 2 month of the tragedy, this day many cameras form different TV programs from all around the world were put on the miners rescue. I think that it was a very especial moment for all Chilean people, because they could follow the rescue by especial TV shows that were transmitted during all the process.

I really hope that these types of tragedies don´t happen again in the whole world, because I suppose that we learnt from this terrible process what the mines industry must to prevent.

English courses at the Medicine Faculty of the University of Chile

Introduction:

Today every job needs people who are competent in English, because of globalization. Today people are more connected all over the world, and the universal language is English, so the only way to be communicated or to be updated is with this language.

In the health system is very important to know how to talk in English for many reasons, like some books and articles are in English, or the patients can be from other country so is important to understand them, or because we need to travel to work in another country.

Body:

Today many Universities prepare people to work in a globalize world, teaching them the language of the word that is English. Universities offer exchanging with other universities from other countries, and also give articles in English to their students, and all of this is because the information is running so fast, from different parts of the word.

The Medicine Faculty form the University of Chile has some courses of English where students can learn the language in four different levels, the first one is started, then come beginner, the following is pre intermediate, and the last is intermediate.

For example, the Midwifery school from the Faculty, started with the English courses on 2009, with the first generation of the new curriculum of the School.

The English course started with a diagnosis test, and with those results people qualify on different levels of English. But in a course there are many differences between the English that knows one people than other, and this is a very good way to learn too, because students can help each other. Also the courses can be mixed with midwifery students and with physical therapy students or they can be separated, any way, the idea is to learn thing in English who will be helpful in our future as professionals. For example in the midwifery English course we learnt to do medical histories, questions for the patient, etc.

Conclusion:

English is a very important skill that people need to be a good health professional, in fact it helps a lot during the entire career, that’s why University of Chile offer English courses for some students, like those form the Midwifery School.

With this competition, students can study form update books, articles or papers like those who are in English. Also, a lot of doors are opening for students who want to learn more things about those careers abroad, or to work in another country.

Any way English is helpful for the entire life.

Myths and trues of the brain

There are many myths about how works our brain Works, but not all of them are true, so let’s review two typical myths:

Time ago, somebody exposed that we can study while sleeping, listening what we want to learn during the night. But it can´t work, because when you fall sleeping many of the brain connections get off, specially those who works with the sense organs like the audition, that’s why we don’t pay attention on the things that happened around us while sleeping.

Another important myth is that we can use only the 10 % of brain activities. But fortunately that isn´t true. To understand the reason, first we must to know that brain works with different sections, which have a specific function, for example the front of brain works on thinking activities, while the back of it works on watching, so it makes connections for each activity. But each parts works together at the same time, because at the same time we can be watching, thinking, and listening something, so there are 3 parts working, and making connections between them. That’s the reason because we use all brain functions and connections. The thing is, that we must stimulate the formation of those connections, beginning at babies till our last days of life, that’s why people get more capabilities than others, although all people use the 100 % of the brain functions.

It´s very important to know the true about the brain activities because we are going to work with people, so we must to know how their brains works, also we have to be informed about it.