Week 1, Day 3
Happy third day of your internship! We will conduct our workshop presentation on newsletter writing with Fadhil as our presenter!
We are looking 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 concussion curriculum every day, and we’ll spend time on remote teamwork and learning more about each other through social activities and group discussions. Toward the end of the week, you’ll get a chance to identify what summer projects you’re most interested in and get a chance to practice your science writing before writing for the newsletter next week.
There are three tasks for today:
Practice Newsletter Synopsis (Please fill out as soon as possible): If you haven’t yet, sign up for which piece of research you want to write about for your practice newsletter synopsis on this sign-up sheet. Sign-ups are first-come, first-served; you can find the options below.
Start working on your practice synopsis! You’ll be using your practice synopsis in the workshop tomorrow, so try to pick which of the two you want to write about and read them over today; you’re welcome to write your draft today or tomorrow just please be sure to have your completed practice synopsis ready prior to the start of the workshop.
Write a thank-you note to Dan Fogarty for yesterday’s wonderful speech and words of wisdom! Here is the link to the google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LYD2dmuxhQOC0JS5LaC4w7nSGSsUcSo1-ui1F7WBJnM/edit?usp=sharing
Work through this curriculum for today:
Concussion Curriculum (~2 hours)
Read Chapter 1 of “Shaken Brain” (~45 min)
Read the 5th Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport. (~45 min)
Read Head injuries and sport: confusion, anger and lots of difficult questions — ramifications of the postponement of the sixth International Conference on Concussion in Sport. (~5 min)
Read this article from the Guardian critiquing the process of creating the consensus (~10 min)
Watch this short video on from the University of Calgary on the consensus creation process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i815J23MQHc&ab_channel=Formation%C3%A0distancedel%27Universit%C3%A9Laval (~5 min)
Read through the ‘Concussion Recognition, Initial Medical Assessment, Management’ section of PedsConcussion, a pediatric concussion living guideline (a digital and regularly-updated guideline as opposed to a consensus statement that’s updated/issued every four years): https://pedsconcussion.com/section/a/#domain-1 (~40 min)
Note that this guideline is for physicians and not the general public
Prepare for Fri Discussion
Science Writing
Continue working on your practice synopsis for one of the options (see Monday) in preparation for the Newsletter Workshop
How to simplify scientific facts REQUIRED
How to find a story from a scientific conference OPTIONAL
How to find the story in a statistical table OPTIONAL-recommended
How to simplify numbers and statistics REQUIRED
From clinical trials to confidence intervals: how to interpret research results REQUIRED