Week 1, Day 4

Today we will be having a sub-cohort check-in at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET. There will be a discussion on 6th Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET. Both of these events will take place in the main zoom room. Here is a link to the discussion questions for today.

Our second expert guest speaker this week is Dan Fogarty Tomorrow at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET; Dan is a concussion patient and advocate–and a CA community member. He’s also the author of Kill the Prince, a novel about an MMA fighter struggling with persistent symptoms from multiple concussions and hiding them from his coach and girlfriend.

Tomorrow you’ll get a chance to practice your science writing before writing your real newsletter synopsis next week. You’ll write a practice synopsis and learn about our best practices in our Newsletter Workshop tomorrow at 9:30 am PT | 11:30 am CT | 12:30 pm ET, run by two-time internship alum Kira Kunzman.

We’ll have our first weekly Social Hour tomorrow at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET.

Start-of-day Procedure

I’ll outline the procedure that we’d like for you to use for starting 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

  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

  4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources (this will come into play starting later next week).

  5. Check in with your PM on Slack

  6. Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack (again, this will be relevant once you start your projects).

There are two Tasks to do today:

Thank You to Amanda Cheney

  • Please write a short thank-you note to Amanda Cheney in this document for coming to speak yesterday! We’d like to be able to send it to Amanda Cheney tomorrow. Thank-you for being prompt with Dr. Casper’s thank-you note!

[Before Friday] Newsletter Workshop Synopsis

  • Please remember to write your newsletter workshop synopsis that you signed up for by tomorrow.

Starting up with your projects!

Project-related tasks for today

  • Continue reading through your resources and gathering data.

  • Think about scheduling a meeting with your program managers

  • Notify PMs, Conor, and Malayka about scheduling interviews if applicable.

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.

For Everyone