Week 4, Day 1

Welcome to week 4 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! We cannot believe we are almost halfway through. All of you have been crushing it! 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. Osman Ahmed on Monday at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET; Dr. Ahmed is a Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (Poole, England) and is the Physiotherapy Lead and Classification Lead for Para Football at the Football Association, England. You can check out his short profile on our website here.

Our second expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Nathan Zasler on Thursday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET; Dr. Zasler is the Founder, CEO & Medical Director of Concussion Care Centre of Virginia, as well as Founder and Medical Director of Tree of Life Services. You can check out his short profile on our website here.

We’ll have a “Revisiting Concussion Understanding & Project Progress” Discussion 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 two Task to do today:

  • Start thinking ahead to building a skeleton of your project outline in the first half of this week.

  • Thank you to Kim Nemi

    • Please write a note to Kim 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.

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 1: Rehabilitation (~60 min)

Unit 6: Stanford Writing Course

  • Stanford Writing Course Week 4: Organization and Streamlining the writing process

    • Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~2 hours total)