Implementation Science [EL007]

Detailed information about this course:

Description

Have you ever been frustrated that evidence-based promising innovations have not been adopted and implemented in your healthcare setting? If you would like to tackle this frustration, our course is perfectly suitable for you!

In health care, promising research results or evidence-based guidelines do not automatically become standard of clinical care. Therefore, a next step, also known as implementation and dissemination, is necessary. Implementation science is the study of methods and strategies that facilitate the uptake of evidence-based research findings in healthcare settings. Within this emerging field it is crucial that professionals from medicine, nursing, psychology, pharmacy, and engineering collaborate.

In this course you will learn the theory, operational and evaluation approaches of implementation science and how to apply implementation strategies in practice.

The course includes lectures from guest speakers, best-practice case examples, and interactive sessions in which participants prepare a proposal for an implementation (research) project. The proposals will be presented on the last day.

Content

• Introduction to Implementation Science
• Frameworks and models in implementation science
• Individual and contextual influences on implementation
• Use of change strategies
• Implementation research methods & outcomes
• De-implementation
• Implementation of technological interventions
  

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Objectives

At the end of this course, students are able to:

• Understand terms, definitions, and concepts in implementation science
• Understand the roles of theory, frameworks, and models
• Understand the roles of intervention adoption, fidelity, and stakeholder engagement
• Being able to apply study designs and research methods commonly used to answer scientific questions in implementation science
• Identify strategies for increasing the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based healthcare interventions in various healthcare and public health settings
• Understand best-practice case examples from different contexts
  

Participant profile

Healthcare professionals, clinical researchers, master students, policy-makers involved in an implementation project within healthcare, or planning to carry out implementation (research) projects.

Assessment

Assignment(s), Attendance