Week 1, Day 4

Congratulations on completing your first few days with Concussion Alliance! We hope yesterday’s social hour gave you a chance to learn something new about each other!

We look forward to helping you get up to speed on the world of concussions in medicine and research while getting to know your fellow interns. You’ll have multimedia curricula every day, and we’ll spend time on remote teamwork and learning more about each other through social activities and group discussions. 

We’ll start our day with a Thursday Check-In Meeting at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET. We will debrief on the two guest speaker talks and announce projects! Afterwards, there will be a first Subcohort Meeting with your assigned PMs at 1:30 PT | 3:30 CT | 4:30 ET.

We’ll also have our first Discussion on the 6th International Consensus on Concussion In Sport on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET. 

Start-of-day Procedure

I’ll outline the procedure that we’d like for you to use to start your days with us this summer. I’ll talk more about this at the welcome meeting and include this text for each “day” page this week.

1. Check Slack for new messages (https://join.slack.com/t/s24cainternship/shared_invite/zt-2kk6yqtsz-mjJV8j7IPH_Iz72xJZoB3w if you haven’t joined yet)

2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal, or on the shared Google Calender (more on that below)

3. Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content

Starting on Friday (tomorrow)

1. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources

2. Check in with your PM on Slack

3. Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack

Project Announcements!!:

Below are the pairs of projects with Sahil as your PM.

• Geriatric Concussion/Concussion in Older Adults: Sam Gossard and Gabriel Marotti

• Concussion Among Adolescents: Jeffrey Kong and Zoe Marquis

Below are pairs of projects with Runa as your PM.

• Partner-Inflicted Brain Injuries: Adalia Shultz and Kaitlyn Chen

• Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation for Concussion: Ella Webster and Sneha Bansal

Subcohort Assignments!!

One person from each projects are assigned to a PM to meet weekly and encourage collaboration among each other. You will meet with this group in the afternoon session today.

• Sahil: Ella Webster, Adalia Shultz, Zoe Marquis, Sam Gossard

• Runa: Sneha Bansal, Gabriel Marotti, Jeffrey Kong, Kaitlyn Chen

There are three (new) task to do today:

(Science Writers) Meet with your project partners!

Reach out to your project partner and set a time to meet synchronously this week (zoom, phone, Google Meet, etc.). This is a great opportunity to establish a connection as we start project related tasks!

(If you haven’t already) Thank-you notes for our expert guest speakers

• Please write a note to Dr. Casper thanking him for speaking Tuesday. You can write your note here.

• Please write a note to Dan Fogarty thanking him for speaking Tuesday; write your note here.

Prepare for discussion on Friday

• Read the 6th International Consensus on Concussion In Sport

• Take a look through the discussion questions and brainstorm possible talking points. At the end of questions, there are quotes from the consensus for your reference.

Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.

Unit 4: Consensus Statement Discussion Prep (~1h 40m)

• Read the 6th Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport and the affiliated documents below(~80 min):

  • https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/international-expert-panel-revises-management-of-concussion-in-sport-for-athletes-at-all-levels/

  • https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/health/cte-concussion-science-debate/index.html

  • https://www.concussionalliance.org/newsletter/2023/6/15/even-a-single-concussion-can-lead-to-the-emergence-of-a-new-mental-health-disorder-in-adolescents#sports

• Dr. Stephen Casper (week 1 speaker) was the lead author on this internationally discussed paper: Toward Complete, Candid, and Unbiased International Consensus Statements on Concussion in Sport (~20 min)

  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/toward-complete-candid-and-unbiased-international-consensus-statements-on-concussion-in-sport/54233A9E24B851E9288AEFD03E1C58CE

Unit 5: Education on Science Writing (~1h 30m)

Sign up for this Stanford Science Writing Course (it’s free): https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite. It comprises eight hour-long units; each unit is a series of videos and a homework/quiz.

• Week 1 - Introduction; principles of effective writing (cutting unnecessary clutter) (~1h 30 min)

  • 1.1: Introduction; principles of effective writing (11 min)

  • 1.2: Examples of what not to do (6 min)

  • 1.3: Overview, principles of effective writing (6 min)

  • 1.4: Cut the clutter (17 min)

  • 1.5: Cut the clutter, more (4 min)

  • 1.6: Practicing cutting clutter (9 min)

  • Unit 1 Homework (16 question quiz)

  • Demo edit 1 (optional - 23 min)