Week 2, Day 1

Welcome to the second week of the program! This week you’ll get a chance to take your science writing knowledge and newfound concussion knowledge and apply them, while building on the learning from last week.

We’re going to do some more community-building activities with a Speed Friendship game on Tuesday (6/21), begin our discussion series on Shaken Brain with our first discussion on Wednesday (6/22), and then on Thursday we’ll officially begin the primary part of your internship – projects!

Our speaker this week is Dr. Nick Reed of the Oak Concussion Lab on Thursday (6/23).

There is one task today:

Pick a category/topic for our newsletter from the June 23 Final document and give a first read to the research and any accompanying articles (if your topic has them).

Work through this curriculum for today:

Concussion Curriculum (~3 h)

• A major scandal came to light in the world of the international consensus statement on concussion in sport, read these articles and reflect on how this might change what we talked about on Friday. (~45 m)

  • (3/5) Concussion kingpin resigns from global post over plagiarism scandal

  • ‘This is frankly insulting’: An author plagiarized by a journal editor speaks

  • Take a look at “Concussion in Sport: Conflicts of Interest Drive Scandal” about Dr. McCrory’s downfall for management in head injury sports with his international consensus guidelines

• Read Shaken Brain, Ch. 3-4 (~ 90 m)

  • Prep for our discussion on Chapters 1-4 of Shaken Brain

    • Discussion questions

• Read What Happens to Your Brain When You Get a Concussion? and What Happens to Your Brain When You Get a Concussion: a Deeper Dive. (~30 min)

  • These resources were created as a project during the Summer 2020 internship, so while reading take note both of the content of the information and of the style/layout/language/etc to gather data for when you create your own page.