GMI Student Blogs

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...