GMI Student Blogs

Hi friends! Costa Rica is slowly but surely coming to an end. I have really been enjoying the culture of the Ticos (Costa Rican people). Everyone is so kind, patient and understanding despite the language barriers. I have had fun exploring La Fortuna as well and we...

Pádel week 🎾 I was pretty productive and accomplished a lot at the internship this week. I organized the suture threads and recorded their specifications and quantities in a table, drafted a technical method document, marked test samples, revised four technical...

This week some of the field engineers had training on GE incubators so I joined them every morning. Although the training was online and the instructor spoke Spanish, the manuals and videos were in English so I was still able to learn a lot. The training included...

I started off the week observing a spinal tap procedure  in which a needle punctures into the subarachnoidal space 💉. On the first attempt to perform the procedure, the patient was lying on her side. When this didn't work, they shifted the patient to a sitting...

Monday I went to the technical service room at Meditek and they were running a test on a GE Cardiosoft Tonoport VI that is used to check blood pressure (BP). They wanted to make sure that the device would record the BP for 24 hours and would do the checks at the right...