GMI Student Blogs

Mono🐒 I can't really believe how time flies, but it's already half way through the internship! This week, I confirmed the applicable testing methods for 10 device documents with DFMEAs, drafted a delamination report, and read a study on breast anatomy and its...

Seeing surgeries this week was so enlightening. In clinical medicine, a lot of decision making happens all inside the provider’s head and it can be hard to infer without asking about their process. However, surgery is very apparent in that nature because everything is...

Due to Dr. Bogantes's vacation absence this week, I shadowed surgeons in the operating room (OR) instead. Suited up in the green OR scrubs, it felt surreal to be watching an open heart surgery 🫀. In this particular case, the patient had hypoplastic right heart...

Hi everyone! I cannot believe it has been a month since I arrived in Costa Rica. This journey has been nothing short of transformative. I’ve learned so much and explored countless amazing places. However, I did fall ill this past week, which put a temporary pause on...

Hi. Sadly, I’m sick this week in more than one way - homesick and have a cold or maybe COVID? I’m not sure what I have but it’s not good. I’m praying that I don’t get anyone else sick!!! #staystrong This week we have been rounding on patients from different units such...

I was supposed to go to Limon last week for work but the plans were changed so I was in San Jose again and spent most of my time at Hospital Calderon Guardia. On Monday I got put on some reusable scrubs to work on an anesthesia machine. It was so fun to get dressed up...

Pelota⚽️ Earlier this week, I learned about the entire manufacturing production line during my visit to the cleanroom and visited the post-marketing surveillance lab to inspect a CAPA case. It was so interesting to see how our R&D department work side-by-side with...

This last week, I’ve been on hospital rounds with Dr. Bogantes. We followed up with the same patients almost everyday for the whole week. One patient I remember was a cute 12 year old girl who had complete occlusion of her carotid arteries. This lead to her suffering...