Week 2, Day 3
Welcome to week 2 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! Last week was a great start to the program and we have lots to look forward to. This week, you will be assigned to your project and will get to sign up for the newsletter! We heard you on the curriculum load, let us know if we did a good job tailoring.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09.
Project assignments/partners are up! Check out what project you have been assigned to (as well as who your project partner and PM will be) here.
Our second expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Shayza Karmali on Friday at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET. Dr. Karmali is the Research Manager at the British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU), British Columbia Children’s Hospital. You can check out her short profile on our website here.
We also have group social activities this week! We started on Wednesday with Speed Friendship and have our weekly Social Hour on Friday 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.
Check Slack for new messages
Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal, or on the shared Google Calendar (more on that below)
Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content
Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources (this will come into play starting later this week).
Check in with your PM on Slack
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 to Dr. Valera
Please write a note to Dr. Valera thanking her for speaking yesterday. 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.
Sign up for Grammarly Premium! We sent invites out yesterday.
Turn in your completed newsletter synopsis by pasting it into this document by the end of the day (or the deadline allowed by Conor if you can’t access your article).
Start on your project!
Reach out to your project partner/PM! Set up a meeting with them or start messaging about ideas.
Look over the resource page(s) for your project (you should be added to your project’s folder via email in the next day)
Check your emails - you should be CC’d on an email to project mentors from your program manager shortly.
Curriculum for Today
We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.
Unit 1A: Assessment (and treatment) guidelines (~50 min)
Living guidelines for providers
https://pedsconcussion.com/section/a/ Read the section labeled “Domain 2: Initial Medical Assessment and Management” including the introduction (+ read more) and Recommendations (dropdown) (~15 min)
https://pedsconcussion.com/tool-2-6-post-concussion-information-sheet/ Read this flyer which is part of their suite of patient-facing resources
Living Concussion Guidelines (for adults 18 and over) – read the home page (~5 minutes)
Read the section on Initial Management (~ 5 minutes)
Click the dropdown for “Recommendations” and read the page.
For at least two of the recommendations, click on the dropdown to read “Context/Level of Evidence.” (Note that the last update was August 2022, so not quite as up-to-date as PedsConcussion.)
Click the dropdown for “Tools and Resources” and choose one resource that interests you to read. (~ 10 minutes)
Standards for Concussion Clinics - read all the summary blocks and choose at least one to click through and read. (~ 10 minutes)
New definition and diagnostic criteria for mild TBI
Read our newsletter synopsis: https://www.concussionalliance.org/newsletter/2023/6/1/increased-risk-of-criminal-behavior-after-concussion#diagnostics (~5 minutes)
Unit 5: Science Writing
Stanford Writing Course Week 2!
Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~2 hours total)