Week 2, Day 2

Welcome to week 2 of your internship with Concussion Alliance!

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. 

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09.

Our first expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Eve Valera on Tuesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET;

Our second expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Shayza Karmali on Friday at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET;

We’ll have our first Discussion on Shaken Brain Chapters 1-4 on Wednesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET. 

We’ll also have group social activities this week! We’ll start with Speed Friendship on Wednesday at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET and have our weekly Social Hour on Friday 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 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 Calendar (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 this 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 four Tasks to do today:

Sign up for our shared Google Calendar

  • Sign up for our shared Google Calendar for the summer internship schedule 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 through them.

Unit 3: Shaken Brain (~90 min)

Shaken Brain Chapters 3-4 (~90 min)

  • Prep for our discussion on Wednesday!

    • Questions will be sent out early Tuesday

Unit 5: Science Writing

  • Stanford Writing Course Week 2!

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