Week 7, Day 5

This week you’ll be hearing from two Expert Guest Speakers, Dr. Monique Pappadis on Tuesday and Dr. Yelena Goldin on Thursday. You’ll also have the opportunity to hear other experts via webinars and podcasts.

There are two tasks (plus an optional task) to do today:

  • (Optional but recommended) 12pm PST Today: Michael Hylin of Southern Illinois University, Manipulation of the gut microbiome following Juvenile traumatic brain injury.

  • Write a thank you message to Dr. Goldin on this document.

  • Start preparing for Dr. Sandel’s talk on Tuesday, August 4.

    • Read this article: The Philosophical Foundations of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R)

    • Take a look at Dr. Sandel’s website. She has been working hard to educate the public, in part with her website, and is interesting in collaborating with us.

      • Check out her about section and take a look at her videos section - watching any of the videos is totally optional, but we wanted you to get an idea of some of the content/work she’s been putting out outside of writing and academia

    • Read her PowerPoint presentation, which is an encapsulation of Chapter One of her book Shaken Brain.

    • Read Chapters Two and Three of Shaken Brain. We wouldn’t be assigning any additional chapters — though the entire book is terrific!

      • Doctor Sandel taught a course on concussions for the UC Davis Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) residents, using Shaken Brain as the textbook. Below are the questions she posed to the residents regarding each chapter of the book. While you don’t need to write out responses to each of these questions for both chapters, we thought that they would help guide your reading.

        1) What do you think are the main points in the chapter you reviewed? Do you agree with the author?

        2) What teaching points for patients do you think are most important?

        3) Highlight 1 or 2 references that you think are most interesting and helpful to you as a physiatrist. Discuss the important facts or viewpoints for these. (These can be studies or review articles.)

        4) How has reading the chapter changed your knowledge or perspectives on concussion?

This week:

  • Continue working on your projects.

  • Reminders for those working in Squarespace:

    • Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page.

    • Squarespace has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespace has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finicky.