title: Partnerships for knowledge translation and exchange in the context of continuing professional development.
abstract: Continuing professional development (CPD) is an important vehicle for knowledge translation (KT); however, selecting CPD strategies that will impact health professionals' behavior and improve patient outcomes is complex. In response, we, KT researchers and CPD knowledge users, have recently formed a partnership known as the National Network for Patient-Centered Evidence-Based Continuing Professional Development. The partnership was initiated in 2006 with a series of CIHR Knowledge Translation: Planning, Meetings and Dissemination grants. The objectives of these grants were to bring members of the CPD and KT communities together, determine their interest in working together, identify similarities and differences in the fields of CPD and KT, and develop working groups to inform larger collaborative initiatives to support knowledge translation and exchange. The vision for this partnership is to become a premiere knowledge translation collaboration and a cutting-edge implementation network that informs the provision of CPD across Canada and abroad. This paper reports on the development and outcomes of this network to date.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada. france.legare@mfa.ulaval.ca
authors.forename: France
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Légaré
authors.forename: Francine
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Borduas
authors.forename: Tanya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: MacLeod
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sketris
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jacques
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D019359:Knowledge; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical