technology

Technology is a group of ideas that allow us to crate machines or programs to adapt things to our comfort and make things easier. Technology has changed the world especially the last century, because it has increases in a lot of aspects. Technologies appear thousand of years ago when the man tries to adapt and created objects to facilitate their life. The last years technology has move along for example internet, computers, photograph camera, microscope, data, prosthesis, etc. In health area, it has increased to try to heal all disease. But we tare playing to be god trying to handle everything and sometimes we forgot about the real propose of technology, that is people.

Technology has replace man, because with the increasing of technology a lot of people had lost their job because now there are machines or programs that can do the same thing and they would be more efficient and economic. But technology has facilitated our live and has helped us to develop it with more comfort.
In general, know at days people has become technology dependent, because we are so used to it that it’s difficult to try to live with out the technology that we had always had. For example Internet it has turn into the principal information source, because it not only easier to search for information, it also had information of everything. An other example that has improved work especially for physical therapist is goniometers, which help us measure ranges of movements of the patients and stethoscope to evaluate pathological sound.
In health area I think that is very risky, because you are working with lives so you have to be very exactly for operation, diagnostic, treatment, and technology makes that a lot easier, because machines are more precise that a doctor can be. But sometimes I think that people play to be like a god, because to created a knew technology they have to experiment and then test it with real humans and they don’t know how the results are really going to be, so maybe you can cause a problem in people that are playing “laboratory mouse” paper, and they would suffer the consequences.

In conclusion Technology has change people live, making easier to study, work, transports, etc. In health area it has been especially useful making people live longer and in better conditions. But technology has also like a “bad” side which is that a lot of works and things like books are being replaced, and that also has cause a society impact, and maybe in future most of jobs would be replaced by technology. I also think that people should be really careful when they create new technology that involved people because they can cause troubles.

challenges in my discipline

The challenges in my discipline involve a lot of aspects like technology, for example. In physical therapy there are a lot of machines and implements that help us to get better results with patients but they are very expensive so not all the hospitals can have the best technology. But I think that this deficiency of technology can help the imagine of the physical therapist to invent how to do something with out the machine, and I think that it really makes a very good physical therapist because they would prove that the results are from the imagination and not from a machine.
Other aspect that we should mention is social matter, because my career has a lot of impact on society at this moment, especially in Santiago because of the really bad air people get respiratory disease so they have to go to the physical therapist to help them breath. Other thing that I suppose why people like this area is because it is related with sports, so that makes it really attractive to people that like to do sports. I choose this career because you can also be an independent worker for example you can put your own consult and be your own boss, or you can work in a hospital and work half day and then you can dedicate to your family.
In future I would like to put my own consult with good implements, and being my own boss so I can make my own choices.
In this university I think that education is really good especially now with the new curricular because they teach us in first year how to palpate and how to use goniometrers to be more related with the career, and to develop habilities.
One of the bad things that physical therapy has is that we are “secondary consult”, I mean that usually you have to visit a doctor and then a physical therapist, but I think that in future that would change because a physical therapist is also qualified to make a diagnostic a patient, maybe doctors are trained to operate and a physical therapy wouldn’t ever be able to do it but that does not mean that you can not visit a phisycal therapist first.

My faculty

Today I will talk about my faculty. In my opinion my faculty has a very good infrastructure even it is a very old building. The classes are big and they have air conditional. Laboratory rooms has a lot of microscope, actually everyone has one just for them self. The anatomy rooms are big and the have a lot of dead bodies that allow a good learning from us. But not every is so perfect so, one of the things that I think that this faculty should change immediately is computers of the library, because they are very old and it does not work very well. About infrastructure I think that could be better but I understand that to improve technology and constructions, money is limiting problem.
About teachers I think that most of them are really good but some of them are not very didactic so it is kind of difficult for me to understand, and I think that for my clasemates it’s difficult too.
Physical therapy is having changing because this year they are implementing a new curriculum so there are a lot of things that they have not take care off. For example they gave us our schedule at the end of every month so that makes harder to plan study. This new curriculum has also add a lot of subjects of other years so they collapses us with information and it is too fast so It’s harder to assimilate it.
I think that this change would be good in future but it is new so they have to test it and change little details that are failing, consequently this new curriculum would educate very competent professionals.