Week 4, Day 2

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 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 four tasks to do today:

• Start building a skeleton of your project outline during 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.

• Thank you to Dr. Osman Ahmed

  • Please write a note to Dr. Ahmed thanking him for speaking on Monday. 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.

• Schedule a project meeting this week with your project group (partner, PM, Kira)!

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 (~75 min)

• Read our page Graduated Exercise Therapy — Concussion Alliance (~10 min)

• Read our page Medication (~10 min)

• Read our page Hormone Therapy (~6 min)

• Provider profiles

• Watch Physical Rehabilitation Following a Concussion, Katherine Schneider, Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist (Physiotherapist), Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary. This is 4 years old, but the recommendations are still good. Dr Schneider was the chair of the 6th consensus in sport group. (~10 m, watch the whole thing, demonstrations start around minute 7)

• Listen to podcast: Concussion Corner Podcast – Dr. Shannon Bauman MD: Role of the Physician in Comprehensive Concussion Management. (~40 min)

  • Note - this starts a little slow the first 5-6 minutes, but totally worth it. A physician who had persistent post-concussion symptoms and founded a clinic for multidisciplinary care for concussion. Also the importance of a doctor doing the initial screening to catch other diagnoses. It is from 2019 but is still relevant.

Unit 2: Headaches - Prep for Thursday Speaker (~25 min)

• Read the Headaches page on Concussion Alliance website (~ 10 minutes)

• Read the Headaches: Advanced page on the website (~10-15 minutes)

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)