Week 3, Day 4

Welcome back to Week 3 of your externship! Last week, best week! Today we have four more synchronous activities: our Thursday morning check-in meeting, Kam Gardner’s talk, exit interviews and the first end of internship showcase!

Kam C. Gardner, MS, CCC-SLP, has proudly been a speech language pathologist for 20 years. Kam has worked in an acute inpatient rehabilitation in Northern California after completing her internship 2001. Currently, Kam treats outpatients who have cognitive impairments secondary to a brain injury, cerebral vascular accident, neurosurgery or a neurological disease. Kam’s daily work schedule also includes treating patients with swallowing and voice disorders. Kam is looking forward to sharing her extensive knowledge about mild cognitive impairment secondary to a brain injury with interns and other professionals.

There are four Tasks for today:

Thursday meeting: rose-bud-thorn, general check-in

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Guest speaker: Kam Gardner

Before the meeting:

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Exit interviews

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End of internship showcase

Before the showcase:

  • If you would like a visual component to your presentation, prepare this now!

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Work through this curriculum for today:

This curriculum discusses racial disparities in concussions/concussion care in more depth. Tomorrow we will cover concussions caused by partner violence.

  1. Read The Pathophysiology of Racial Disparities 

  2. Watch The Tough Talk: Examining SES and Racial Disparities in Concussion Evaluation and Management

  3. Watch Casual Conversations 30: Dr. Nathan Zasler

Tutorials and Skill Building:

  1. None, focus on 1- the readings and 2- your projects! :)

Reminders/things to note:

  1. Fill out the exit survey!! https://forms.gle/fF6NZHjywzr2CRnj6

  2. Keep up the fantastic work on your projects!