GMI Student Blogs

Jasmine Ferrarer: Week 6 at Drop Access in Kenya

     Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week, I will be talking about the progress I’ve made on my Drop Access project, some Swahili phrases I’ve learned during my time in Kenya, and fun activities I did with friends last weekend. During the past week at...

Week 5 in Costa Rica

Hello again to all who read, Last week marked the halfway point here in Costa Rica for the GMI program summer experience. It's hard to believe I've been here for 5 weeks already but they've been full of adventure and learning so I can't wait for what the next 5 have...

Starting Week 6 at Hospital de Niños!

I can't believe it's already Week Six of my time at Hospital de Niños! Last week we sat in on Dr. Bogantes's outpatient consultations again, but this week we're back to inpatient. Both of these experiences are great, but I do prefer going around the hospital because...

Niños Week 5 (Project Choice!) & Cartago Trip

Welcome back (to exactly how many people beyond the 3 I know read it, I'm unsure, but happy to have you all the same)! This past week was more in office consultations with Bogantes. A very special thank you to the mom who gave me another pen when mine died, and for...

Transcranial Doppler & the Old Costa Rica Capital Cartago

This week at Hospital de Niños, I got to experiment conducting Transcranial Dopplers myself under Dr. Bogantes' guidance. Having finalized my project topic at the beginning of the week, this experience was invaluable for me to provide insight on devising solutions....

Colin’s end of week 6, onto week 7

Hi everyone! Super exciting stuff to share this week. At work, I spent a lot of the week preparing my final literature that will be due at the end of the summer, just to get a head start on it while waiting for the procurement of the rest of my components necessary...

Hospital de Amor Week 5

This week has been a very productive week. We started off working on one of our side projects with the Unnawave team. Our main task with this particular project was to conduct research on other light spectra that the team could use for the diagnosis of skin cancer and...

Kenya Week 6

Welcome back y'all! I can't believe I'm over halfway done with my internship at Medevice and my time in Kenya! This past week has been busy. First, my parts finally arrived on Monday, so I was able to set up the circuits I had designed in my simulations and test the...

Brazil Week 5 One Project Down

This week we completed our first project. The project was a research project in collaboration with a startup medical device company named Unnawave. We helped them do research on different imaging spectrums that aim to detect skin cancer in primary care unit or within...

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