Division of Community Health & Humanities, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.
Med Educ Online. 2009 Aug 18;14:10. doi: 10.3885/meo.2009.T0000142.
The salient role of knowledge translation process, by which knowledge is put into practice, is increasingly recognized by various research stakeholders. However, medical schools are slow in providing medical students and health professionals engaged in research with the sufficient opportunities to examine more closely the facilitators and barriers to utilization of research evidence in policymaking and implementation, or the effectiveness of their research communication strategies. Memorial University of Newfoundland now offers a knowledge translation course that equips students of community health and applied health research with the knowledge and skills necessary for conducting research, that responds more closely to the needs of their communities, and for improving the utilization of their research by a variety of research consumers. This case study illustrates how the positive research outcomes resulted from implementing the knowledge translation strategies learned in the course. Knowledge translation can be useful also in attracting more funding and support from research agencies, industry, government agencies and the public. These reasons offer a compelling rationale for the standard inclusion of knowledge translation courses in health sciences education.
知识转化过程的突出作用，即将知识付诸实践，正逐渐得到各研究利益相关者的认可。然而，医学院校为从事研究的医学生和卫生专业人员提供的机会有限，无法让他们更深入地研究在决策和实施中利用研究证据的促进因素和障碍，或研究传播策略的有效性。纽芬兰纪念大学现在提供了一门知识转化课程，为社区健康和应用健康研究的学生提供了进行研究所需的知识和技能，更贴近他们社区的需求，并提高了各种研究消费者对他们研究的利用。本案例研究说明了如何通过实施课程中所学的知识转化策略来实现积极的研究成果。知识转化还可以吸引更多来自研究机构、行业、政府机构和公众的资金和支持。这些原因充分说明，在卫生科学教育中纳入知识转化课程是非常必要的。
