GMI Student Blogs

Welcome back! This week was another work from home week. I put the final touches on my presentation, so now it's all about practicing for our Final Presentation, which is this Thursday! It's crazy how close we are to the end. However, I did go into Ninos one day this...

This week was focused on a Friday presentation in which we would present all the work we had accomplished here at the hospital. In order to prepare for this presentation, we presented the individual projects to the Hospital de Amor counterpart associated with that...

Hi everyone!!! Its officially been 9 weeks in here in Brazil but if I’m being honest it has not felt like 9 weeks. I genuinely have no idea where the time has gone, I guess everyone was right when they said time flies by when you are having fun! This week has...

I can't believe I'll be leaving this Saturday. I've had an incredible time here, but I'm also excited to go home and see my family again. Last week was pretty uneventful. I've been working on my final project for mechanical thrombectomies for ischemic strokes. The...

Hello hello, welcome back to the blog. Another week has gone by here in Costa Rica so lets dive in. I am starting to wrap up my projects at work which means I have gone away from the days of CAD and prototyping and am working to setup times for testing on the floor...

Welcome back! While this week wasn't spent at Ninos, we still saw Dr. Bogantes as we had two days of cadaver lab. Was it an interesting experience? Yes. Did it also freak me out a bit? Also yes. I'm glad that I got to have the experience and see that side of medical...

This weekend marked the last of our drive-away Costa Rican adventures. Since we decided to leave on Friday this weekend, we decided to sleep in a little and left for Jaco at 8:30am. Little did we know that because this was a long weekend with the Annexation of...

This week's focus was on testing all the code for the H&E Stainer and ensuring that the device will work as intended when slides with samples are introduced. This was a fairly simple yet tedious process. However, I found that throughout the week I became more...

Hi everyone! After approximately 48 hours of continuous 3D printing, we are officially done with our main design project here at Hospital de Amor! Once everything was printed, we tested our G-code and aligner, and everything works perfectly! I won’t lie, the constant...