Week 5, Day 2

Welcome to week 5 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! We are so proud of everyone for being over halfway through and chugging along on your projects. 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. Chris Giza on Tuesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET; Dr. Giza leads the pediatric TBI/sports concussion program at UCLA. You can check out his short profile on our website here.

Our second expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Sara Etheredge on Thursday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET; Dr. Etheredge serves as the primary physical therapist for the Concussion Care Centre of Virginia to address the orthopedic needs in the underserved neurological community here.

We’ll have our “Shaken Brain chapters 8-10” Discussion on Wednesday at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET.  Questions are coming soon.

We’ll have a Squarespace Tutorial on Friday at 11:30 am PT | 1:30 pm CT | 2:30 pm ET to teach you how to create your project page.  

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 Five Task to do today:

  • Double-check that you've signed up for this week's mid-program check-in with Conor. You can sign up here.

  • Keep an eye out for newsletter edits!

  • 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.

  • Thank you to Dr. Nathan Zasler

    • Please write a note to Dr. Zasler thanking him for speaking on Wednesday. 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.

  • Keep working on your projects’ drafts/outlines! We will be meeting this/next week to discuss them and moving forward.

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.

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Unit 1: Cognitive Dysfunction (~20 min)

Unit 2: Shaken Brain (~1 hr)

  • Read Chp 9-10 of Shaken Brain (~60 min)

    • Our discussion tomorrow (Wednesday) will be on Chp 8-10

    • Discussion questions are linked here

Unit 5: Stanford Writing Course

  • Stanford Writing Course Week 5: Format of an Original Manuscript

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