GMI Student Blogs

Overview of the Week This week was a pretty eventful week. We started by taking a trip to the Arenal Volcano all day on Saturday, continued with clinical observations, and we also started our internships (probably the main reason we are here!). Keep reading to hear...

The past week and a half in Costa Rica have been unlike any other, and I'm sad to leave from this beautiful country! But first, a quick recap of the last few days: After the Medical Devices Bootcamp at UCIMED, we had one day off before the Clinical Needs Finding...

This week started out with an exciting trip to Arenal Volcano in La Fortuna, about 3 hours Northeast of San Jose. Our group got a fun little personal tour since it was just the 8 of us in the tour van. We took control of the aux and blasted 2010 throwbacks for most of...

After finishing the Medical Innovation Bootcamp on Friday, my friends and I decided to go visit the Arenal Volcano on Saturday. We booked a 15-hour trip with a tourist company that promised us a hike of the volcano, a traditional Costa Rican meal, and a visit to the...

This week was another busy one! It included a day trip to Arenal volcano, a needs finding workshop, moving into a new hostel, and starting my internship with Meditek in La Sabana, San Jose. Lots of twists and turns along the way, but I'm finally starting to feel...

This past week was definitely a blur. As I'm writing this blog post I can't believe that we are closing in on 2 weeks in Costa Rica. I think for this blog post, I am going to touch upon our cohort's venture to La Fortuna and Arenal Volcano National Park, the last bits...

¡Hola a todos! This week I will be writing about our cohort's excursion to La Fortuna, the Clinical Needs Finding Workshop, and my first week of my internship at Establishment Labs. Here are my highlights and lowlights of the week: Highlights: Baldi Springs Being able...

This week we participated in the Medical Innovation Bootcamp at UCIMED. We worked in small teams incorporating the lectures we heard into a project where we researched a need, developed a solution, and presented our findings. Looking back on all we packed into 38...

What an exhausting yet exciting week it has been! This week's blog week will mostly focus on my experience with the Medical Innovation Bootcamp that took place at UCIMED. Every day at around 6am, the sound of the early morning train nearby our hotel woke us up just in...