Week 1, Day 2

Congratulations on finishing the first day of the internship! It was wonderful to see you all at once at the Welcome Meeting yesterday, and I hope that you enjoyed your first subcohort meetings with our amazing PM interns.

Our first expert guest speaker is Dan Fogarty, who will be speaking today; Dan is a concussion patient and advocate, as well as a CA community member. We’ll also be having a discussion on The 5th International Consensus on Concussion in Sport on Wednesday.

There are four Tasks to do today:

Concussion Alliance emails

  • You should receive an email notifying you of a new google workspace account from CascadiaNow! – this is your Concussion Alliance email and Google account. The link expires in 24 hours, so please sign in to the email as soon as you get it.

  • Email me with your Concussion Alliance email as soon as you get signed in

Slack

  • Once you have a Concussion Alliance email and you’ve reached out to me with it, I’ll send you a slack invitation

  • Sign into slack and create your profile there! Slack will be the primary form of non-Zoom communication in the internship

Internship Learning Plan

  • Some of you will have an Internship Learning Plan that you’ve been given by your school to complete and have your supervisor sign. Even if your school hasn’t provided a learning plan, we think that the structure of intentionally setting learning goals will help you make the best of your internship. Schedule a 15-minute meeting with your PM intern for sometime this week to plan out your learning goals. If you don’t have a plan from your school, your PM will provide you with a template that we’ve created.

Expert Guest Speaker

Work through this curriculum for today:

  1. Take this CATTOnline Athlete Course. The Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT) is a fantastic digital resource based out of Canada. This course is designed to educate athletes about concussions, but it’s the site’s most recently updated program.

  2. Listen to the first 28 minutes of this podcast – ‎The Peter Attia Drive: Hussein Yassine, M.D.: Deep dive into the “Alzheimer’s gene” (APOE), brain health, and omega-3s. If you would like, you are welcome to listen to the rest of the podcast (80 minutes), but we do not expect you to.

    1. While you listen to the podcast, read the podcast show notes, which include diagrams of the systems Dr. Yassine describes. One of the diagrams is slightly blurry as the show notes were originally a web page that we turned into a pdf.

    2. “Hussein Yassine is a physician and researcher who studies brain lipid utilization in the context of finding preventative measures for cognitive impairment, specifically Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In my conversation with Hussein, we begin with a fundamental coursework in brain biology—including its architecture and energy systems. We go on to discuss what these systems look like when something goes wrong and cognitive decline ensues.”

  3. Read the 5th Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport.

  4. Sign up for and take the first unit of this Stanford University Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Writing in the Sciences

    • The course focuses on how to write scientific research papers specifically, but the principles of science writing in the course may be helpful in both the reading and writing you’ll be doing for newsletters and projects

    • You’ll have to log in and create an account with Coursera. The course tries to promote a paid version that will give you a certificate for $79, but you can just take the course for free.

    • Unit 1 consists of 6 videos on science writing (~55 minutes) and a short quiz.

    • We haven’t used this as part of our curriculum before, so I’ll plan on making a short survey to get your feedback on this first unit. Depending on the feedback, we may progress further through the course as part of the curriculum or drop it if it doesn’t feel helpful.