Week 5, Day 3

Happy Wednesday and welcome to the fifth week of the program, we’re officially halfway through the program! This week you’ll be continuing your respective projects, finishing the research, beginning outlining and drafting of the project and hopefully wrap up any interviews you scheduled! We’re super excited to hear about the progress you guys are making and are always here as a resource!

This week we’ll be giving you guys more time with projects and is going to be heavier with content and meetings. Thank you all very much for a wonderful discussion with Julie Stamm! We’re going to continue the week by completing our Mid Program Internship Feedback forms and individual check-in meetings, guest speaker Dr. Stephen Casper on Thursday 7/14 at 11am PST, 1 pm CST, 2 pm EST and finalizing the week with a Watch Party on Concussion (2015)!

We'll now begin the second core text of the program, "A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice" by Hana Walker-Brown. We understand that starting a second book is a commitment, but Conor, Fadhil, and I believe this text will provide you with better foundational knowledge on CTE and how personal stories of those with SRCs can be shared with the community. The author of the book Hana Walker-Brown will also be a guest speaker for us in week 8, making this a great opportunity for her to speak to interns that have finished her book. We'll also adjust our other curriculum accordingly to compensate for the addition of the book.

Your PM’s will also reach out with each partner project individually to set-up meetings times to check-in and review progress or if there’s any questions!

Andy will also reach out to each of you individually per week to create social media pages for the Concussion Alliance Twitter page!

There are a couple tasks for today:

Please write a thank-you note to Julie Stamm! Here’s the google document to the letter: S22 Julie Stamm Thank You Letter

We’re almost halfway through the program already! We’d love to hear your feedback about your experiences. You guys have until next Wednesday 7/13 to complete it prior to your individual meeting time. Take as much time as you needed to answer everything and submit the google form as “Anonymous”. Here’s the google form: S22 Concussion Alliance Mid Program Evaluation Survey

Don’t forgot to make an appointment for this Wednesday 7/13 to meet with Conor for mid program check-ins! Here’s the link to do so: Appointment Slots for Mid Internship Check-In

Here are some reminders for this week’s work:

Projects

  1. Send us project initiation and planning templates

  2. All of your work needs to be moved into the project folders (links, outlines, etc.)

Dr. Casper Pre-Meeting Tasks

On Thursday we will be talking about TBI, CTE, and stigma. There are a couple articles and videos to look at prior to the start of the meeting. At the completion of our activities you should be able to:

1) Define stigma
2) Describe objective historical evidence about the dangers or traumatic brain injuries
3) Analyze language that downplays patient experiences of traumatic brain injury or neurodegenerative disease
4) Evaluate ways that stigma promotes injury, risk taking, and subsequent disease

Concussion Curriculum

Dr. Casper Tasks

Take a look after that at the data in 1955 from the American Football Coaches Association (Note: Conor incorrectly linked this article as the 1955 article in the Saturday Evening Post on yesterday’s page. If you’ve already read the AFCA post, click the link in the previous sentence to read the Saturday evening post article.)

  • How many injuries and fatalities in American football do these authorities find across several years? And what recommendations do they make to keep football players safe?

Then, read through Dr. Casper’s article on “Malingering”. Malingering is the idea that people exaggerate their symptoms in order to receive compensation or for sympathy.