It was fun while it lasted. Three more days and off we go to our new group. The laughter, smiles and the craziness!
My groupmates:
1. Abdelrahman, Samee S.
2. Angkaya, Nabila Tasmin L.
3. Anuddin, Al-Rayyan A.
4. Cordero, Jerillie Anne F.
5. Cristobal, Aileen M.
6. De Guzman, Marie Loraine H.
7. Elloh, Queenie-Ann B.
8. Kulani, Adelaida A.
9. Lee, Al-Mondjid L.
Learning Issue: What is the potassium content of a banana?
Background: One of our speakers during the orientation, posed this question, "What's the average potassium content of a banana?". He was merely giving us an example of a question that tackles on our recall ability. The lecture was about Adult learning and the subject was on the Cognitive domain. I think he was trying to elaborate Bloom's taxonomy on the Cognitive domain.
I instantly thought, "well the problem is I absolutely don't know it's potassium content. All I know, it's a fruit that has a high content of potassium and is now being advocated as a fruit that helps control blood pressure.".
So what! Right? I wasn't able to answer the question.
And so the quest begins.
Because of their impressive potassium content, bananas are highly recommended by doctors for patients whose potassium is low. One large banana, about 9 inches in length, packs 602 mg of potassium and only carries 140 calories. That same large banana even has 2 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber. No wonder the banana was considered an important food to boost the health of malnourished children! Those reducing sodium in their diets can't go wrong with a banana with its mere 2 mgs of sodium. For the carbohydrate counters there are 36 grams of carbs in a large banana.
Vitamins and minerals are abundant in the banana, offering 123 I.U. of vitamin A for the large size. A full range of B vitamins are present with .07 mg of Thiamine, .15 mg of Riboflavin, .82 mg Niacin, .88 mg vitamin B6, and 29 mcg of Folic Acid. There are even 13.8 mg of vitamin C. On the mineral scale Calcium counts in at 9.2 mg, Magnesium 44.1 mg, with trace amounts of iron and zinc.
source: http://www.banana.com/nutritional.html
Synthesis:
Dang! A banana is on average 9 inches in length. I can't believe this! huhuhu!
On a happy note, at least now, I know how much potassium a banana has.
I just read an email from nuffnang regarding a contest! The contest sounds fun. And most of all, all you gotta do is blog!
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I do hope I could entice some of you out there to join nuffnang.ph! I never really met any of the other nuffnangers but hey, I bet they are having fun.
Today was my second day orientation in Med school!
During the lecture on "How to destroy PBL" (which I thought is a weird title!), some points struck me. It wasn't really a dawning moment but neither was it mundane and ordinary. It was something I take into heart and yet it still strikes me whenever somebody utters or advises it.
The speaker was talking about the different pit falls of Problem-based learning (PBL) learners. And on one of her topics, she mentioned about biases and our pre-learnings; the dangers of not knowing that you don't know. I have absolutely no idea how to make the previous statement much clearer. But I guess it's quite understandable. She was trying to zero in the danger of being too cheeky, too confident on our knowledge that we forget about life-long learning.
I think that was quite true. There is really a danger. A knowledge error might occur; worst, an inappropriate or and off-tangent learning might occur. Freaky!
To further illustrate, she questioned all of us, "What's intermittent and remittent?"
At first, I thought, well that's easy. I know what they are! And then suddenly, I felt a chill of ignorance.
Crap!
How the hell do they differ! I know we've discussed them during my nursing days. I'm pretty sure these words could describe a lot of conditions but most of all, I remember that an example was made over fever. What is an intermittent fever and a remittent fever?
Crap!
I wasn't able to remember the difference!
Was I getting old or is this just an excuse for me?
Being the inquisitive mind, I've tried to research them over the web. Only to find it more confusing! Just great!!!Intermittent according to wordnet.princeton.edu is the stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"
Intermittent according to MedlinePlus:Medical Dictionary is an adjective; coming and going at intervals : not continuous
Remittent according to wordnet.princeton.edu is characterized by periods of diminished severity; "a remittent fever"
At least I was right it can be used to described a fever.On the other hand, remittent according to MedlinePlus:Medical Dictionary is an adjective; is marked by alternating periods of abatement and increase of symptoms
At the end of the research, I realized, I had to find more reference!
F*MYLIFE!
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