Week 1, Day 4

Happy fourth day of your internship! We will have a group check-in meeting and then project start-up meetings with Conor, Gigi, and Sam!

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 four Tasks for today:

Newspaper synopsis

  • Make a comment on the source with your name and the date of the newsletter (12/9)

  • Copy the link and paste it in the Final doc under the category you picked

  • Write your name in red under the link

Thursday check-in meeting

Zoom link:

Project start-up meetings

Zoom link:

Social hour

Zoom link:

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. Be sure to have read the preface through chapter 4 of Dr. Sandel’s book before we meet with Dr. Sandel on Friday.

  1. Read Chapters 3-4 of Shaken Brain (pp. 65-126)

Tutorials (Newsletter Prep):

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

Reminders/things to note:

  1. A draft of your newsletter synopsis is due this Friday. Feedback on your synopsis will be delivered on Monday 12/6.

  2. Check your Concussion Alliance emails, there should be an email from Conor with a folder of resources to start your projects. Take some time to read your sources over the next few days. We will meet on Monday to talk about your progress on your projects.