Five thousand years ago with the invention of writing the human race took its first jump towards a technological civilization in today's world, Technology is constantly changing and advancing at the speed of light. Is impressive to think that only a few decades ago cell phones didn’t exist, people used to communicate by phone or by other ways like letters or messages. Now cell phones are considered almost outdated. Our days we have blackberries, i-phones, etc. This situation happens with many other technological objects that make our lives easier and faster. But not everyone have access to these technological advances because they are very expensive. This is a serious problem for students for example. Now almost all the information is in the web. All the useful websites, images, programs are on the Internet. It’s very unfair that not everyone can make use of them because they don’t have a computer or because they don’t have an Internet connection.
I’m studying in the "Universidad de Chile", one of the few public universities in Santiago. Is public because it’s administrating by the state and not by private companies as the private universities. Is expected that the budget for technology be reduced. This is my situation like a student of the medicine college. Every day I have to deal with this problem.
As I said on a previous blog, we have a real problem with the computers, especially with those who are in the library. They just don’t work appropriately. We have to spend a lot of time searching a computer that works decently and also the ones who are available. Find those two things is very difficult. My career and all the careers of my college demand a lot of time for study. Every day thousands of students have to prepare different works for there classes. We have put all our effort in those works to comply with the requirements of the university. We can’t spend time on computers that don’t work properly.
But as future health professionals we will need to use along our carrier and profession a lot and varied technological objects. It’s probably that in our first days of practice we have to work in establishments with fewer resources that the ones we have in the university nowadays. We will have to use more "primitive" instruments, and we must be able to adapt ourselves to those technological changes.
It’s true that technology is growing quickly. But now the question is: All the people in the country are available to participate of the technology advances? I can certainly say that the answer is NO. Technology help us to have an easier and faster life. It also helps to optimize our time. It´s a very important and necessary thing in this stress world so, what is the reason because so many people is not participating of this technology progress? Technology is a source of opportunities. If we use it properly many doors could be opened for our personal progress.

Challenges in my discipline

Today I have to talk about important chllenges that my discipline, Obstetrics, is currently facing, specifically about technology, social matters and education.
Midwives needs many technological objects, like instruments to take the pressure, stethoscopes to detect heart beats, ultrasound to listen the baby, etc. It is necessary that these instruments be modern, they have to be renewed over time. The technology advances are progressing very fast, so the health facilities need to keep up with these advances to provide better care to the patients. However, many health facilities don´t have the necessary resources to afford these instruments, so they can´t progress in technology matters and reach an improvement with the patient´s health. The government has to deal with this problem NOW.
If we talk about social matters and education in Obstetrics, we have to mention the lack of interest that the society,specially the young people,have in the matters related with sexuality, specially in the prevention and sexual education. Most of young pepople prefer doing other staff of their own interest than going to talks and seminars about this theme. This is one reason why there are so many teen parents that have to leave their studies to work and get some money to care they baby, but the biggest problem is that this situation usually happens to people with fewer resources, WHY?....easy, becouse they don´t have money to buy good and reliable condoms, to go to the gynecologist for a check, to acces to a good educaction.
That´s why our rol as future health professionals is so important, we have to create new and more interesting methods of sexual education, so that the young people have interest in this mathers,also the government has to invest in education.
Midwives must be appreciated in its educational role, they have to acquire the necessary tools to be excellent professionals.

As I said in previous blogs, I´m studying Obstetrics in the "Universidad de Chile" , I´m in my first year. This univesity is one of the most prestigious in the country, I don´t say that only because I´m studying here, but because it´s true.

My faculty is very large, it has more than three floors, with many corridors, different patios, a huge library of five floors, a cafeteria, a square that we call " La Blest" and many many auditoriums and classrooms.

Inside, the university looks like a hospital, most of the walls are white or gray, this faculty is very old and it´s not hard to notice.

If I have to choose one of the things that urgently needs improvement are the computers in general, specially those who are in the library. Here I can talk about a few points, like the amount, they are very few, specially if you consider the number of students. Another point is the quality, most of them don´t work properly, they also are very slow.

To use the computer you must enter a password that you previously have to ask to the librarian. I can say with certainty that , on average, out of four passwords I had requested, only one worked.

This situation is a problem that we must consider as students, itñs not acceptable that bad computers affects our study and efficiency, specially for people like me that don´t have a notebook,netbook or something like that.

A few months ago we make a list with our signatures requesting new computers, we collected hundreds of signatures, but nothing happens...so I ask myself, ¿ What are they waiting for?