Week 2, Day 2

Welcome to Week 2! We’ll still be bringing you educational materials and resources so you can continue to learn about mTBI, this week we’ll be transitioning to a heavier focus on content creation. Today you’ll be finishing up your first newsletter synopses, and Wednesday you’ll hear from Shaken Brain author Elizabeth Sandel, MD, following our discussion today on chapter 1-4 of her book.

New Tasks/Notifications

  • Shaken Brain Ch. 1-4 Discussion Questions

    • Later today we’ll be having a group discussion on the first four chapters of Shaken Brain! Take a bit of time to look through the general and chapter-specific questions. The discussion will consist of a quick full-group general chat, followed by four breakout rooms (in the style of our last discussion) for you to spend some more time on chapter-by-chapter questions, and finally reconvening with the full group to go through the questions.

Educational Resources:

  1. Watch Physical Rehabilitation Following a Concussion, Katherine Schneider, Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist (Physiotherapist), Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary.

  2. Read “Volleyball star Hayley Hodson had it all, until blows to her head changed everything” about a Stanford volleyball player with a career-ending concussion and how she is using her experience.

  3. Podcast Concussion Corner: Interview with Dr. Lenore Herget PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, vestibular-ocular therapist.

Reminders

Newsletter (leaving this here for ease of access)

  • Because we have such a large cohort this summer, we’ll be adopting a new procedure for newsletter writing. You’ll split up into 2 groups (we’ll keep the same groups from 2 truths and a lie). Each group will write a full newsletter during the same period (Monday-Tuesday of every other week), but Group A’s synopses will be published on the same week, and Group B’s synopses will be published on the following week. Both groups’ synopses will be due TODAY at 5pm PST.

    • Group A (Publishing June 24): Elizabeth Zhao, Julia Brzac, Lori Mae Yvette Calibuso Acob, Nathan Campbell, Wyatt Hill, Christine Hau, Emma Chin, Chelsea Ryan, Melissa Brown

    • Group B (Publishing July 1): Clovis Wong, Karina Suwal, Meena Shanmugam, Alex Widman, Alyssa Schaechinger, Han Nguyen, Bethany Lazo, Calder Stenn, Aamy Woldesenbet

  • Choosing a Category/Synopsis: June 24/July 1 Update Document

    • When you want to start writing, check your group’s final document to see what categories have already been claimed. Choose a category that has not yet been claimed and write your name in red underneath that category.

    • Then, go to the Update Document linked above and look through the potential sources in that category. When you choose a source to write about, comment that you’re writing about that source in the Update Document, and then copy the link over to your category in your final document.

    • As a reminder, the newer sources are near the top of each category header, and you can navigate the document by the outline on the left side of the google docs layout.

    • There are fourteen total categories, and each of you will pick one, so that means that we will publish about nine categories for each newsletter, plus the Opportunities category, which Malayka will write.

    • There are a couple of categories that we want to be sure to cover for each edition of the newsletter:

      • Therapies Currently Available

      • Self-care

      • Youth

      • Women’s Health

  • Grammarly Premium subscription for all interns. We’ve sent each of you an invitation to Grammarly Premium. Please run your synopsis through Grammarly before submitting it.