Week 5, Day 5

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.

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

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:

• Reminder! Keep working on project drafts that are due Wednesday. Message your PMs if you have any issues, and feel free to send things over to them for review. 

• Keep an eye out for newsletter edits!

• Thank you to Dr. Chris Giza

  • Please write a note to Dr. Giza thanking him for speaking on Tuesday. 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. Sara Etheredge

  • Please write a note to Dr. Etheredge thanking her 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 (UK Guidelines) (~1 hr)

• Look at UK Concussion Guidelines and compare them to the CDC guidelines

• Guideline for National Federation of HS association (~20 min)

• UK Guidelines for Grassroots (Non-Elite) Sports (~30 min)

• CDC--guidelines for concussion in sport (~10 min)

Unit 4: Football and Sports Industrial Complex (~2 hrs)

• Watch League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis | Watch S2013 E2 | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site (1h 53m)

  • This will also be curriculum on Monday, feel free to watch it over the weekend and/or on Monday!

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)