Week 1, Day 5
Welcome to the end of your first week with us! We’re excited to get started on projects with you and continue diving into the world of concussions.
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.
Our last synchronous meeting this week is our Discussion on the 6th International Consensus on Concussion In Sport, Today 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.
Check Slack for new messages
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)
Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content
Starting on Friday
Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources
Check in with your PM on Slack
Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack
Project Teams:
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
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.
We would like to be able to send out these thank-you notes today, so please take a few minutes to write your message if you haven’t yet.
Prepare for discussion
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 5: Education on Science Writing (~1h)
More science writing resources
https://medium.com/@kenna.castleberry/why-scientists-need-media-training-2507b7432bf7. The only thing you need to read on this post is: “Terms that have different meanings for scientists and the public” (~2 min)
Read the introduction https://www.reportingwithnumbers.com/ (~5 min)
Read the section Health and Medicine section: (~25 min) https://www.reportingwithnumbers.com/health-and-medicine/introduction/
Read this Tip Sheet: A Getting-Started Guide for Newcomers to Science Writing. Some of these points apply to science journalism and are different than how we write synopses for the newsletter, and some issues do apply to our work. (~15 min)
Read this: https://scripttraining.net/uncategorized/how-to-write-simple-science-news-stories/ (~10 min)
Unit 3: Shaken Brain (~45 min)
Shaken Brain Chapter 3 (~45 min)