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Blog 6: Welcome to San Carlos.

Blog 6: Welcome to San Carlos.

Hello again from Costa Rica, this week was full of exciting new experiences in my internship as a field engineer. Monday, we traveled to San Carlos a very beautiful place full of volcanos and hot springs. On this trip, we had a very hands-on task as we had to do...

Observations Week 3

Observations Week 3

Hello there, readers! Welcome back to my blog as I continue to share my experiences during my clinical rotations in Costa Rica. Last week, Travis and I continued our journey at the Hospital Nacional de Niños (HNN) under the guidance of Dr. Roger Vargas. This week, I...

W5 – Mystery Mexican Festival (w/ Tacos & Elote?!)

W5 – Mystery Mexican Festival (w/ Tacos & Elote?!)

Hi everyone, welcome back to another week of Ravi's life in Costa Rica. Work at Confluent Medical has been going really well (and also super repetitive). I've learned so much about catheter development and verification/validation. Currently, I'm working on stress...

Beginning the Innovation

This past week, we began to narrow down the ideas that we wanted to work with Dr. Vargas on, and we began to look further into the background behind each of the ideas. Accompanied by clinical observations were discussions with Dr. Vargas on how these designs could be...

Week 3: Clínica Bíblica ER and Surgery

Week 3: Clínica Bíblica ER and Surgery

So this week Sarah and I continued our observations on the Surgery department of Clínica Bíblica, switching to the ER department on Thursday. I decided to do something interesting since parking was so hard to find and expensive in San José, I started commuting by...

W4 – A Weekend Trip to Manuel Antonio

W4 – A Weekend Trip to Manuel Antonio

Hi everyone, thanks for tuning back into another week of Ravi’s life in Costa Rica. Last week, Hannah and I had many scares during our morning commutes to our internship at Confluent Medical. There’s this one exit that is always backed up by traffic and two of our...

Blog 5: Hello From Siquirres

Blog 5: Hello From Siquirres

Hello again from Costa Rica, this is the end of my third week living in this beautiful country. So far has been three weeks of meeting new people and experiences. This week was exciting because I had my first road trip with Meditek to Sequirres, a city close to the...

Identifying Needs and Exploring the City

Identifying Needs and Exploring the City

This week was a mix of stressful, productive, and fun! It started at the end of last week with us checking out an awesome new farmers market just 5 minutes away from our hostel by foot and a visit to Pablo's house, as he and his family were nice enough to have us over...

Observations Week 2

Observations Week 2

Hello there, readers! Welcome back to my blog as I continue to share my experiences during my clinical rotations in Costa Rica. Last week, Travis and I began our journey at the Hospital Nacional de Niños (HNN) under the guidance of Dr. Roger Vargas. This week, I have...

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