Interesting to learn how KT Canada is working to expand KT training in Canada. Similar efforts have been undertaken coast to coast since 2004, in KT training for health scientists through the Scientist Knowledge Translation Training course http://tinyurl.com/3uaqob7 (966 people researchers trained to incorporate KT practices into their programs of research) and more recently, the Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate - targeted to KT practitioners http://tinyurl.com/7m7hlux. There is great demand for supports in this area, and this work is very important for building KT capacity.
Competing interests
None declared
in support of KT training
David Phipps, York University
25 January 2012
Having recently presented at a knowledge brokers forum in the UK there is international interest in capacity building for knowledge brokering, more than we usually do through individual peer sessions and one off workshops. As valuable as these are for supporting and sustaining knowledge brokering there is a need for accredited knowledge brokering training. 30 years into technology transfer that industry has established a series of accredited training courses for tech transfer. We need the same degree of rigour in training for knowledge brokering. The KTPC session described in the previous comment by Melanie Barwick has been accredited by Univ. Toronto. We need more KTPC across Canada
CPD for KT in Canada
6 January 2012
Interesting to learn how KT Canada is working to expand KT training in Canada. Similar efforts have been undertaken coast to coast since 2004, in KT training for health scientists through the Scientist Knowledge Translation Training course http://tinyurl.com/3uaqob7 (966 people researchers trained to incorporate KT practices into their programs of research) and more recently, the Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate - targeted to KT practitioners http://tinyurl.com/7m7hlux. There is great demand for supports in this area, and this work is very important for building KT capacity.
Competing interests
None declared
in support of KT training
25 January 2012
Having recently presented at a knowledge brokers forum in the UK there is international interest in capacity building for knowledge brokering, more than we usually do through individual peer sessions and one off workshops. As valuable as these are for supporting and sustaining knowledge brokering there is a need for accredited knowledge brokering training. 30 years into technology transfer that industry has established a series of accredited training courses for tech transfer. We need the same degree of rigour in training for knowledge brokering. The KTPC session described in the previous comment by Melanie Barwick has been accredited by Univ. Toronto. We need more KTPC across Canada
Competing interests
I am on faculty for the KTPC program.