viernes, 16 de diciembre de 2016

English languages challenges


This is the last post. The semester is practically finished and, with it, English must be finish with an analysis of the experience of the course.
Personally, I think that was a great experience again. The class were very didactic and the most of time, entertaining and interesting. In addition, the classes were useful for talk with my partners about what like them (hobbies, music, etc.) and them problems.
The model of learning based in the interaction between the teacher and the class, and the creation of blogs motivate the learning and definitely are more “educational” that a class in the school. Probably I learned more English with this method in a year than all I had leant during all my scholar life.
The only negative aspect of the classes were probably the lost time when we must to study another difficult subject (principally anatomy-biology BAyB), although the teacher give us all the facilities when we were in stressed weeks and we didn’t have time.
About what I must to improve in English... definitely the listening. I have ever problems for understand people when they speak in English naturally. English have words with very similar pronunciation and have many monosyllabic words, and this don´t help or do more difficult the learning. The vocabulary is another important aspect and this is a complement of the anterior point. It is practically infinite, so is important to learn and practice it during all life.
Outside of the English class and inside the academic aspect this language is very relevant. I use the English principally for the reading of papers and scientific publications in all the subjects. In my free time outside the university, I use it for watch videos, listen music, understand “Memes” and all the things related with the mass media in general.

Epilogue: I really don´t like English, but I understood that is necessary for the life. English  will follow me ever and I have only the option of coexist with it and take advantage of this knowledge.


miércoles, 14 de diciembre de 2016

About the program of dentistry here...

You know about the difficult of a career like dentistry. It is a profession very related with the science and for this reason it is hard. But in this university, the design of the curriculum, the high number of hours in the university and the thoroughness of the teachers make the career reach an extreme level.
The curriculums have a big number of contents and topics in each subject. All of them have a degree of difficulty. Probably anatomy, biology and chemistry are the most difficult subjects; there are a lot of students that failed them.
The workload is most of time sickening, practically you never stop working during  all the week, you don’t have enough time to rest during weekends  and when there is an important exam or a clinic case (anatomy and biology), only a few hours of sleep are guaranteed.
About the infrastructure of the university, I think that it could be more modern and the classrooms definitely need to be bigger because sometimes the overcrowding is evident. About the green areas, is necessary to have them, but having the time to enjoy them is more important, although a few of grass in “Machu Picchu” is not a bad idea.  The clinical building seems enough for the clinical activities and for the patients in spite of some problems related with the instrumental.
I think that the technology here is sometimes obsolete. It is seen, for example in the computers and the lack of last generation material for simulation, like for example, material with artificial blood or equipment of virtual reality, that could be useful for the formation.

Finally, the teaching methods are questionable basically thanks to the shortage of time and them external work commitments.