STIHR Training Program

In June 2009, KT Canada was awarded a Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR) grant to create an internationally-recognised national training initiative to enhance capacity in KT and KT research. We aim to accomplish this by:

• providing outstanding, innovative training centres and laboratories for trainees from various research disciplines (including clinical epidemiology, health services research, social sciences, engineering, and health informatics, and from different professions including medicine, nursing, engineering, psychology, and education) to develop skills in KT and KT research;
• linking trainees and mentors to collaboratively advance the science and practice of KT; and,
• partnering with other national and international research groups to promote KT research and training of well-rounded trainees across a range of settings, clinical and health system issues.

Enhanced capacity in the science and practice of KT will be achieved through 3 Training Streams which will establish the standard for KT training:

• Stream 1. graduate (MSc and PhD) and advanced (post-doctoral) training in the science of KT research;
• Stream 2. training in the basic principles of KT and KT research for researchers from other areas; and,
• Stream 3. basic training in KT for any knowledge users interested in enhancing their knowledge and skills for practising KT.

The universities involved in the STIHR are: University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Western Ontario, University of Ottawa, McMaster University, University of Toronto, Université Laval, and University of Prince Edward Island.

To apply, go to http://applications.ktclearinghouse.ca/stihrsirps2011