by Sarah Blau | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
This week has consisted of more shadowing at Hospital Clínica Bíblica and starting to brainstorm some ideas of needs and projects we may want to work on. But first, a dinner party! Ravi cooked a great chicken stew on Sunday night and we all sat down in the kitchen to...
by Emily Murray | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hola from Siquirres, Costa Rica! This week I’m not in the usual San Jose, as Santiago and I are on a work trip with Meditek. We’re doing corrective and preventative maintenance at Centro de Atencion Integral en Salud (CAIS), another hospital in Costa Rica....
by Hannah Delatte | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
HI!! Early post coming in because we are planning a weekend trip to Manuel Antonio this weekend! We plan on leaving Friday around 6:30 and coming back Sunday night. I am so excited because although we have been here for three-ish weeks we really haven’t done a...
by Santiago Aparicio | Jun 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hi again from Costa Rica, this week has been full of many changes and new experiences in my field engineer internship for Meditek. Monday, was my first day at Meditek with Emily. First, we met Pablo who introduced us to the company and gave us an overview of all the...
by Pablo Angulo | Jun 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Right after ending the Needs Finding short course we started the Medical Innovation Bootcamp (MIB) and it was just as I remember when I first took it in 2020. That 2020 bootcamp was what introduced me to Rice and encouraged me to apply, so I think it’s great that I...
by Emily Murray | Jun 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Corporate America? More like corporate Costa Rica! This past Monday we started our internships around San Jose after a busy few days of the medical device design bootcamp. Here’s a recap of the past week and a half: Medical Device Design Bootcamp: From June 1-3, we...
by Hannah Delatte | Jun 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our second week in Costa Rica was so different from the first week but in all the best ways!! We didn’t do as many touristy things because we have been pretty exhausted with the first days of our internships but we are still loving it. We have eaten multiple times at...
by Sarah Blau | Jun 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hi all! We’ve had a busy week and a half since you’ve last heard from us. In the last ten days, we’ve had our medical design bootcamp, started our internships, and continued exploring San José. Our bootcamp at the end of last week was a whirlwind...
by Ravi Nataraj | Jun 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Thanks for tuning back into Ravi’s life in Costa Rica. Last week, we completed a grueling 27-hour medical innovation boot camp across 3 days. Our project was super interesting – we proposed a software solution to help correct excessive motion artifacts caused by...
by Travis Dowd | Jun 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
This week was our first week of work, and it was great! While it is always going to take a bit to get used to a new place, we are starting to settle in. Although our mentor was out of town this week, I was lucky enough to observe various clinical visits with Dr....
