Week 5, Day 1

Welcome to your first day of the fifth week with us! We hope you had a great weekend!

We will start the day off with a Monday Check-In at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.

In the afternoon, there will be an expert guest speaker talk by Dr. Nathan Zasler at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET. Dr. Zasler’s bio on the Concussion Alliance website can be found here. To prepare for his talk, please see today’s curriculum and read through Unit 3: Headache.

From Tuesday, we will have individual mid-internship interviews next week! Here is a calendar invite for choosing a time slot.

Start-of-day Procedure

  1. Check Slack for new messages

  2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal

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

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

  5. Check in with your PM on Slack

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

There are 3 (new) tasks to do today:

  • Sign up for a time slot for the mid program check in interview!

  • New round of newsletter synopsis are up! Please sign up for a topic and submit your synopsis here by the end of the day on Tuesday, July 23.

  • Work on your drafts for projects! The drafts will be due on Friday, July 26.

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.

Unit 3: Headaches - Prepare for Monday afternoon guest speaker

Unit 5: Stanford Writing Course

  • Stanford Writing Course Week 5: Format of an Original Manuscript

    • Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~2 hrs)

Unit 2: Concussion Movie - Watch at own pace for Monday and Tuesday

Watch Concussion (~2 hrs)