GMI Student Blogs

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. From July 15th – 22nd, I continued to design the VacciBox 2.0 walls, helped to install 2 VacciBox units at local hospitals, and attended fun weekend activities with my Drop Access coworker, Melanie. I’m making slow and...

It finally happened: the Niños gang finally went to the UCR cadaver lab, and what an experience it was... He threw us into the deep end on the first day by immediately showing us half of a skull and torso (don't ask how it was only half and not the whole). But by the...

Hey hey people! I have wrapped up my eighth week at Medevice here in Nairobi. Time is flying; I'm now in my last 2 and a half weeks of work. Last week, after many trials and errors, I was able to get both my handle and my filter attachment design fully printed with...

It's been a wild week so far... We had our last full week of observations at Hospital de Niños with Dr. Bogantes—in the future, we'll only be going back for project-specific observations. We went to the UCR cadaver lab with Dr. Bogantes last Thursday, but there was a...

Hi everyone, welcome back to the channel. This is my seventh blog post in the series and I have a lot to catch you up on. It was a very busy printing week at work which kept me going back and forth between the two buildings to post process and gather the parts. I was...

This weekend, we ventured to the Carribean side of Costa Rica- Puerto Viejo, with our two Tico friends (Rafael and Ricardo) whom we met during the Clinical Needs Finding and Medical Innovation Bootcamps. We learned from our lesson last weekend that not all parts of...

Welcome back! This past week at Ninos was spent seeing more of the admitted patients and doing consultations. We are getting good at picking up on the little details of the patients and I'd say our collective Spanish has improved massively. Additionally, this week we...

Hi everyone! I have great news: our printer has finally arrived! I can confidently say it was the highlight of my week. Now we can officially start working on our final project! Since all of our 3D-printed components are downloaded and ready to go, we began printing...

Hi y'all! I can't believe it's been over 8 weeks since I arrived in Nairobi! My project at Medevice has been moving along; I have had to do a lot of troubleshooting for my breadboard and code and I am still having difficulties getting my pulse oximeter to accurately...