Week 1, Day 5

Thank you for an incredible first week of the program! We are so thrilled to have each and every one of you here, and we can tell already that this will be a fantastic summer. Today we wrap up our first week!

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. 

Today is our Newsletter Workshop on today at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET, run by our Science & Technical Writing Mentor, Kira Kunzman. Please bring a completed draft of your practice synopsis to the workshop!

We hae our first weekly Social Hour today 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 Calender (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 next 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:

Thank you notes:

  • Please write a note to Dr. Casper thanking him for speaking Tuesday. As part of showing professionalism and respect to our speakers for taking time out of their schedules to talk to us, we try to send these thank you notes back within 2 business days of their talk. You can write your note here.

  • Please write a note to Dan Fogarty thanking him for speaking yesterday; write your note here.

Newsletter Workshop sign-up

  • 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.

  • You will need to bring a completed practice synopsis to Kira’s Newsletter Workshop on Friday at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET.

[By the end of the weekend!] Fill out your preference for the projects!

  • Please fill out this project preference form. We will be using your preference to assign projects starting on Monday next week and announcing project assignments and partners on Thursday, so please fill this out before next Monday.

Reach out to someone!

  • Reach out to a fellow intern on Slack and set up a time to talk synchronously (zoom, phone, google meet, etc.). Try to pick someone from a different school–this is a great opportunity to make connections with folks from around the country with shared interests!

Curriculum for Today

Unit 3: Shaken Brain (~60 min)

  • Read Chapter 2 of “Shaken Brain” (~60 min)

Week 2 Unit 1: IPV (~55 min) [We planned this curriculum for next Monday, but we’ll be taking the day off to observe Juneteenth, so you’ll want to read these in preparation for next Tuesday’s speaker]