by Apple Lee | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
On this last day of June, we are approaching our halfway point of our time in Costa Rica! This past week at Hospital de Niños, we shadowed Dr. Bogantes in inpatient neurology. This is different from what we have observed in the past few weeks as we are now seeing...
by cg161 | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello, all of my loyal blog post enjoyers (I have no idea if anyone reads this). I am starting week six here at Medevice, officially pivoting through the halfway point of this internship experience. Everything has been nothing short of a blessing and a privilege to be...
by Luisanny | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
This week, we have made significant progress towards our final project. As I mentioned in the last post, we have a couple of side projects that we are working on, and those have been going well. We have officially wrapped up our capstone packages, so hopefully we will...
by Emma Kirchhoff | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hi y’all! Another Monday, another blog post from Nairobi, Kenya! This past week at Medevice, I was finally able to order the parts for my pulse oximeter prototype, and they are expected to arrive today (fingers crossed). I have also been working on writing the...
by Malcolm Williams | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
This week I learned some valuable information about Brazil. The first main learning moment came when searching for places to order project supplies. I found out that Brazil has very high importation fees. This makes it very expensive to use the typical sources I would...
by Jasmine Ferrarer | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome back to my Drop Access blog everyone! Over the past week, I presented at the Drop Access Visit Day for Rice University iSEED students, used SolidWorks to redesign the walls of the VacciBox refrigerator, and helped the production team prepare for the...
by Connor Bly | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome back Y’all, I recently wrapped up my third week here in Costa Rica and at Resonetics! I am setting into a nice routine here during the week that consists of waking up around 7 or so and leaving by 8. The day goes by fast and I leave work anywhere around...
by Rei Guo | Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello hello everyone! Today marks the beginning of my 4th week at Hospital Nacional de Niños; this week Dr. Bogantes is seeing admitted patients and we’ll be following him around different wards in the hospital, so I’m looking forward to having a change of...
by Alexandra | Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome back! Week 3 at Niños is done and we are still doing clinical observations! A fun fact I learned this week is that neuro-imaging is required for all epilepsy patients, whether that be a CT or an MRI scan. This is required to have on file, but only has to be...
by Apple Lee | Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Starting off this week’s post with the leisure activities for a change: on Saturday, Rei, Alex, and I went to visit a local animal sanctuary full of rescues that is only a 2 minute drive away from our Apartotel. We saw many different species of rescues and...
