Week 5, Day 4

Welcome to your fourth day of the fifth week with us!

We will have Dr. Elizabeth Sandel as our expert guest speaker today at 10 am PT | 12 pm CT | 1 pm ET

Later, we will have our sub-cohort check-in meeting at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET.

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 2 (new) tasks to do today:

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

  • Write a thank you note for Dr. Nathan Zasler. The thank you letter can be found here.

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 1: Mental Health

  • Read our page Overview of Self-Care (~10 min)

  • Read our page Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (~8 min)

  • Alice Theadom Mental Health and Wellbeing of Retired Elite and Amateur Rugby Players and Non-contact Athletes and Associations with Sports-Related Concussion: The UK Rugby Health Project

Unit 4: Football and Sports Industrial Complex (~2 hrs)

Unit 5: Stanford Writing Course

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