Week 7, Day 4

Welcome to Week 7 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! We are so proud of everyone, all of you have been crushing it! We’re looking forward to seeing you keep it up and continue working on your projects! We hope that this curriculum load continues to suit you well.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09.

Our third expert speakers this week are Conor and Malayka Gormally on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET; Conor and Malayka will discuss the ins and outs of running a non-profit and answer questions that anyone has. Read more about Conor here and more about Malayka here.

We’ll also have one group social activity this week! We have our weekly Social Hour on Thursday 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 Four Task to do today:

  • Keep working on your Squarespace page!

  • Keep getting things ready for your page: graphics, images, edits, additional research, etc.

  • Thank-you to Dr. Elizabeth Sandel

    • Please write a note to Dr. Sandel thanking her 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. Christina Master

    • Please write a note to Dr. Master thanking her 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.

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 1: CTE + Increased Risks (~2 hrs)

  • Before reading these, please read the following: This content (as well as the content of our Week 8 speakers touches on long-term health concerns and the results of repeated head injuries/CTE. This may be upsetting or anxiety-inducing to people who have had repeated head injuries or concerns about their long-term health. Please do not feel pressured to engage with this content or the speaker(s) if exposure to this would be harmful to your mental health in any way! We (the admin team) are all here for you and want you to get the best out of this internship, so please engage with this content in whatever capacity you believe is best for you and your future. Reach out to any of us if you have any questions or further concerns!

  • Read this article and its accompanying synopsis (Review of CTE’s relationship with repeated head impacts, history of clinical diagnosis, and case study findings) (2 hours)

  • Read this synopsis: Concussion increases the risk of hypertension, diabetes, ischemic stroke several years after injury (5 min)

  • This is the same curriculum as tomorrow, work on it over the two days/weekend to prep for Week 8 Guest Speaker(s)!

Unit 3: Stanford Writing Course

  • Stanford Writing Course Week 7: Issues in Scientific Writing (Plagiarism, Authorship, Ghostwriting, Reproducible Research)

    • Do this at your own pace throughout the week (~2 hrs total)