Week 3, Day 4

Happy Thursday and fourth day of this week’s internship! This week you’ll be getting started on your respective projects, finishing the initiation/planning stage and wrapping up the week with the research portion of the project. We’re super excited to hear about the progress you guys are making and are always here as a resource!

Thank you all for your contributions and questions to Dr. Sandel yesterday! We’re going to continue the rest of the week with guest speaker ,Dr. Deborah Bensen, PhD on Thursday 6/30 at 12pm PST.

Your PM’s will also reach out with each partner project individually to set-up meetings times to check-in and review progress or if there’s any questions! If you guys have any questions about the project or anything related to the program, please don’t hesitate to message Conor, Andy or Fadhil on Slack and they will be happy to support you!

Andy will also reach out to each of you individually per week to create social media pages for the Concussion Alliance Twitter page!

There are three tasks for today:

Come to Dr. Bensen’s guest speaker speech with a question! Discussion will be at 12pm PST, 2pm CST, 3 pm EST.

Please write a thank-you note to Dr. Elizabeth Sandel! Here’s the google document to the letter: Dr. Elizabeth Sandel Thank You Letter

The Final Newsletter Document for July 7 2022 has been posted in the Slack channel! Here’s another link to it as well: Newsletter Doc July 7 2022 S22

Here are some reminders for this week’s work:

Projects

  1. Send us project initiation and planning templates

  2. All of your work needs to be moved into the project folders (links, outlines, etc.)

Newsletter

  1. Newsletter topics will come out tomorrow - have your first draft done by EOD Friday (July 1st)

  2. Fadhil will have an open office hour about newsletters on Friday at 10am PST, 12pm CST,1pm EST

Meetings

  1. Today’s check in meeting (6/30) will be held in sub cohorts. Andy and Fadhil will reach out to you respectively with zoom links.

Work through this curriculum for today:

Concussion Curriculum

Shaken Brain Ch. 8

Read Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms — Concussion Alliance

Read Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction — Concussion Alliance