Week 5, Day 4
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 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.
The Squarespace Tutorial has been moved to Tuesday. This tutorial will 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
Check Slack for new messages.
Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal, or on the shared Google Calendar.
Check the ‘day page’ for tasks & content.
Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources.
Check in with your PM on Slack.
Check in with your project partner on Slack .
There are Three Tasks to do today:
Keep working on your projects’ drafts/outlines! We will be meeting this/next week to discuss them and moving forward.
Keep an eye out for newsletter edits!
Thank you to Dr. Chris Giza
Please write a note to Dr. Giza thanking him for speaking yesterday. 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 3: Guidelines (Consensus on Sports) (~1.5 hrs)
Dr. Stephen Casper (week 1 speaker) was the lead author on this internationally discussed paper: Toward Complete, Candid, and Unbiased International Consensus Statements on Concussion in Sport (~25-30 min)
A major scandal came to light in the world of the international consensus statement on concussion in sport, read these articles (~45 m)
(3/5) Concussion kingpin resigns from global post over plagiarism scandal
‘This is frankly insulting’: An author plagiarized by a journal editor speaks
Take a look at “Concussion in Sport: Conflicts of Interest Drive Scandal” about Dr. McCrory’s downfall for management in head injury sports with his international consensus guidelines
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)