The Future of the Regional Training Centres: Planning for Sustainability

Montelpare, William; Biden, E.; Lee, Pat; Sheps, Sam; Dubois, Carl-Ardy; Brault, Isabelle

doi:10.12927/hcpol.2008.19819

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“…While this journey has been a wonderful one for the RTCs, their students and decision-making partners, the current funding commitment from CHSRF/CIHR ends in 2011/2012. However, a vision for sustainability has developed that will take the RTCs beyond what was initially imagined (see Montelpare et al 2008). …”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Different Roads, Same Destination: Launching Regional Training Centres

Brachman

Peyton

Folch³

et al. 2008

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The four Regional Training Centres (RTCs) founded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research have used their regional context and resources to develop an innovative approach to reach their common goal of increasing capacity in applied health and nursing services research in Canada. As this overview explains, experiential learning features prominently in all four RTCs with the involvement of healthcare decision-makers and organizations. An interdisciplinary conceptual and methodological approach has been emphasized, resulting in both a regional and a national network of faculty, researchers , healthcare decision-makers and graduate students who are committed to the field of applied health and nursing services research. Faculty, decision-makers and students have gained a deeper understanding of how to achieve knowledge translation and exchange within the context of applied health and nursing services research to promote evidence-informed decision-making. Résumé Fondés par la Fondation canadienne de la recherche sur les services de santé et les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, les quatre Centres régionaux de formation (CRF) ont utilisé leur contexte régional et leurs ressources pour élaborer une approche novatrice afin d' atteindre un objectif commun : accroître la capacité en recherche appliquée en services de santé et de soins infirmiers au Canada. Tel qu' énoncé dans le présent aperçu, l' apprentissage par l' expérience occupe une place prioritaire dans les quatre CRF en raison de la collaboration des décideurs et des organismes du secteur des soins de santé. Une approche conceptuelle et méthod-ologique interdisciplinaire a été privilégiée, créant ainsi un réseau régional et national de membres de corps professoraux, de chercheurs, de décideurs en matière de soins de santé et d' étudiants des cycles supérieurs qui se consacrent au domaine de la recherche appliquée en services de santé et de soins infirmiers. Cette approche permet aux corps professoraux, aux décideurs et aux étudiants de mieux comprendre comment réaliser l' application et l' échange des connaissances dans le domaine de la recherche appliquée en services de santé et de soins infirmiers afin de favoriser la prise de décisions éclairée par des preuves.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Different Roads, Same Destination: Launching Regional Training Centres

Brachman

Peyton

Folch³

et al. 2008

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“…This work is an attempt to create evidence in this direction, as it is aimed at investigating the organizational sustainability of service delivery, defined as the "collection of factors that should support a decision maker on how to structure the best telemedicine program within an organization" (Whitten et al, 2010). In fact, beyond fragmented and diversified opinions and observations, its aim is to find and expose some common guidelines and enabling factors, deducted both from literature and the most reputable Italian experiences (Montelpare et al, 2008;Whitten et al, 2010).…”

Section: Why Organizational Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future of Telemedicine in Europe and Methods for the Evaluation of Health Services

Giacomo

2012

International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare

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Despite the accumulation of evidence for the effects of approaches to chronic illness, methodological and analytical work is still needed to develop widely accepted evaluation methods that are scientifically sound and also practicable in routine settings. Given all the diversity and variability of disease management, a key issue for this work concerns the difficulties in establishing a useful “comparator” in settings where it is not practical or possible to execute an evaluation as a randomized controlled trial (RCT). This is indeed an important task because evaluation methods are a precondition to select efficient and effective programs, or components within a program that can address the growing burden of chronic and more in general health conditions. This is evident, in particular, when it comes to new technologies in medicine and implementation and evaluation, in the healthcare sectors, distinguishing low-income countries, on the one-hand, and those in other middle income countries.

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“…As these mutually beneficial relationships continue to unfold, regional healthcare organizations are hiring RTC graduates, while the RTCs continue to rely on these organizations to assist students in gaining applied experience in knowledge transfer and exchange. Montelpare et al (2008) explore how the RTCs intend to capitalize on these dual functions and synergistic pursuits while building on the suggestions generated by the fourth-year reviews to shape the future of the RTCs beyond CADRE.…”

Section: Cross-program Synergiesmentioning

confidence: 99%