Week 2, Day 1

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.

Our first expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Eve Valera on Tuesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET; Dr. Valera serves as an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Research Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital. You can check out her short profile on our website here.

CONTENT WARNING: Dr Valera’s talk contains heavy topics that can be difficult to hear or talk about. If you need to turn off your camera, step away or leave the meeting at any point, please do so. Your wellbeing comes first.

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’ll have our first Discussion on Shaken Brain Chapters 1-4 on Wednesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET. 

We’ll also have group social activities this week! We’ll start with Speed Friendship on Wednesday at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET 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.

  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 Calendar (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 this 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 three 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.

  • Make sure to sign up for the newsletter! Conor will go over newsletter sign-up at today’s belated Monday check-in at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET and will have sent out a link to the document where you sign up in Slack beforehand.

  • Look out for a Grammarly Premium invitation! We will be sending them out over the course of the day today.

  • Make sure to look over the discussion questions for Wednesday’s meeting – the admin team will post them in Slack.

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 3: Shaken Brain (~90 min)

Shaken Brain Chapters 3-4 (~90 min)

  • Prep for our discussion on Wednesday!

    • Questions will be sent out early Tuesday

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)