Week 3, Day 1

Welcome to week 3 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! All of you have been crushing it. This week, you will start making a game plan for your projects and try to meet with your mentors! We hope that this curriculum load continues to suit you well.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09.

Our first expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Nick Reed on Tuesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET; Dr. Reed is an Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto. You can check out his short profile on our website here.

Our second expert guest speaker this week is Kimberley Nemi on Friday at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET; Kim Nemi OTR/L, CBIS, is a senior-level occupational therapist at SUNY Upstate Medical University. You can check out her short profile on our website here.

We’ll have our second Discussion on Shaken Brain Chapters 5-7 on Wednesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET. 

We’ll also have one group social activity this week! We have our weekly Social Hour on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.

Start-of-day Procedure

  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.

  3. Check the ‘day page’ for tasks & content.

  4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources.

  5. Check in with your PM on Slack.

  6. Check in with your project partner on Slack .

There are three Tasks to do today:

  • Thank you to Dr. Karmali

    • Please write a note to Dr. Karmali thanking her for speaking on Friday. 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 here for a thirty-minute appointment slot with your project partner on Tuesday to discuss your project with the admin team. The start times are every half hour from 11:30 PT to 2:30 PT. Only sign up for one slot per team!

  • Draft the two start-up docs with your partner—more information coming during our Monday check-in meeting. Find your templates in your project folder. Ensuring you are working on the existing docs in your folder is vital.

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 (~80 min)

Chapters 6 & 7 (~80 min)

  • Prepare for our discussion on chp 5-7 Wednesday!

    • Questions will be posted ASAP

Unit 6: Stanford Writing Course

  • Stanford Writing Course Unit/Week 3: Crafting Better Sentences and Paragraphs

    • Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~2.5 hours total)