Week 7, Day 4

Happy Thursday!! We hope you enjoyed Dr. Julie Stamm’s talk yesterday!

We will have our sub-cohort check-in meeting and a social hour at 10 am PT | 12 pm CT | 1 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 4 (new) tasks to do today:

  • Continue to work on your projects.

    If you need any help with navigating Squarespace, Canva, further questions about feedback on drafts, etc, please reach out to the Admin team! We are here to help you!

  • Write a thank you note for Dr. Ahmed. His thank you letter can be found here.

  • Write a thank you note for Dr. Stamm. Her thank you letter can be found here.

  • Check on Newsletter Synopsis revisions

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: CTE + Increased Risks (~90 min)

  • Before reading these, please read the following: This content (as well as the content of our Week 8 Monday speaker(s)) touches on long-term health concerns and the results of repeated head injuries/CTE. This may be upsetting or anxiety-inducing to people who have had repeated head injuries or concerns about their long-term health. Please do not feel pressured to engage with this content or the speaker(s) if exposure to this would be harmful to your mental health in any way! We (the admin team) are all here for you and want you to get the best out of this internship, so please engage with this content in whatever capacity you believe is best for you and your future. Reach out to any of us if you have any questions or further concerns!

  • Read this article and its accompanying synopsis (Lifetime exposure to cumulative force of repeated head impacts is strongly associated with CTE) (1 hour)

  • Read this synopsis: Concussion increases the risk of hypertension, diabetes, ischemic stroke several years after injury (5 min)

  • Read this article: The National Institutes of Health formally acknowledges that CTE is caused in part by repeated TBI (15 min)

  • This is the same curriculum as tomorrow, work on it over the two days/weekend to prep for Week 8 Guest Speaker(s)!

Unit 3: Stanford Writing Course

We will no longer be assigning modules from this course. However, feel free to keep continuing if you would like!  

We will no longer be assigning modules from this course. However, feel free to keep continuing if you would like!