GMI Student Blogs

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....

The first few days here have been a blast! I’ve learned so much about the nuances of Costa Rican culture. First, let’s talk business. Over the past three days, I’ve visited Hospital de Clinica Biblica, Hospital CIMA, and Hospital de Trauma. Although I’m a little...

Welcome back to the blog glad to have you back. This week we started our need findings boot camp with Professor Casey Howard. In this needs-finding boot camp, the cohort was split into several groups, with each group, over three days, being sent to a different...

We started off this week with the Needs Finding Short course Prof. Howard! I was excited for what this would entail as being able to observe a clinical environment in action is something few people outside of medical professionals get to see. After a short...

After a weekend of meeting classmates and learning about a new country, Monday we started our course about clinical needs with Dr. Howard. First, we had an introductory class with Dr. Howard where she guided us on how to perform observations in a hospital to find...

This week has been our three-day needs finding course with students from Rice and two universities here in Costa Rica - the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) and the Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC). We started with a classroom session on Monday where we discussed the...

After our introduction to San José, it was time to get to work! I like that the sun comes up so early here because it allows me to get my training runs and cross training before classes/work and keeps me on a good schedule. I am looking to find other routes other than...

Since Monday, we have had the pleasure of immersing ourselves in various aspects of Costa Rican healthcare. Our class was split up into groups and sent into rotations for observing clinical atmospheres. My group started with with a visit to UCR Dentistry. Originally,...