Double the Training

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...
Britt Coffee Tour☕️🪴⚽️

Britt Coffee Tour☕️🪴⚽️

Hola! Hope you guys had a relaxing weekend. This past week was my sixth week working at MicroVention and it was a relatively short week. The company had a maintenance shutdown from Wednesday through Friday, so I only went to the office on Monday and Tuesday and then...
From Bean🫘 to Brew☕️

From Bean🫘 to Brew☕️

Hi everyone! This past week has been incredibly busy yet rewarding at Confluent. With my time in Costa Rica being limited, I’m determined to make a lasting impression both as a dedicated worker and a positive individual. Consequently, I’ve been immersing myself...

Clinic Chronicles

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...
Catching Waves 🌊

Catching Waves 🌊

Hi Everyone! After a hard working week, we finally decided to plan a beach trip. I was especially excited because Costa Rica is renowned for its stunning beaches. We chose to visit the famous city of Manuel Antonio. But first, as is tradition in my previous blog...

Monkey Time!!

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...

Breast Anatomy + Manuel Antonio 🏝️🌊

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...

Cirugía!

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...