Week 1, Day 3

Happy third day of your internship! We will wrap up our presentation on newsletter writing, discuss the 5th consensus statement, and host our first guest speaker!

Our first expert guest speaker is Dan Fogarty; Dan is a concussion patient and advocate, as well as a CA community member. Our second expert guest speaker is Dr. Elizabeth Sandel on Friday; Dr. Sandel was one of the first professionals to become sub-specialty certified in Brain Injury Medicine and is the author of our internship curriculum text Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion.

There are two Tasks for today:

Prepare for our discussion

• Make sure you have read the relevant readings/video before we meet

  • Read 5th Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport

  • 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.

  • Read Toward Complete, Candid, and Unbiased International Consensus Statements on Concussion in Sport – a critique of the consensus process by members of an international working group that CA has since joined

  • Watch this short video from the University of Calgary on the consensus creation process

• Skim the questions we will discuss and be sure to record any initial thoughts that you have in response to these questions

  • Discussion 1 Questions

• Zoom link:

  • Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09

  • Meeting ID: 842 852 3914

  • Passcode: 094687

Guest speaker Dan Fogarty

• Check out his LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfogarty1

• Zoom link:

  • Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09

  • Meeting ID: 842 852 3914

  • Passcode: 094687

Work through this curriculum for today:

This curriculum wraps up our introduction to concussions and segues us into our next topic, where we will dive more deeply into sports related concussions.

1. Skim the Concussion Pathway (online flow chart)

2. Read Medical Professional Overview. How does this resource differ from the general overview in language? What about areas of focus? 

3. Listen to: “This is What a Concussion Sounds Like,” a 6-minute radio story from Seattle NPR member station KUOW hosted on our personal stories page

4. Take this Athlete module from CATT’s E-learning training modules

5. Read the preface and Chapters 1-2 of Shaken Brain (pp. 1-64)

Tutorials (Newsletter Prep)

1. None for today! You get a break :)