Week 4, Day 3

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 today, 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 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:

• Keep building a skeleton of your project outline! Reach out to the admin team if you need help with resources/planning/etc.

  • Please send a message in your project channel once the outline is complete so we know and can look it over!

• 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.

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 4: Mental Health (~50 min)

• Read our page Mental Health – Concussion Alliance (~10 min)

• Read our page Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Concussion Alliance (~10 min)

• Read our page The Invisible Injury (~10 min)

• Read our page Overview of Self-Care (~10 min)

• Read our page Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (~8 min)

• Alice Theadom Mental Health and Wellbeing of Retired Elite and Amateur Rugby Players and Non-contact Athletes and Associations with Sports-Related Concussion: The UK Rugby Health Project

Unit 3: Shaken Brain (~30 min)

• Read Chapter 8 of Shaken Brain

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)