Table 4.
Program name (country) year founded | Program area of focus | Program format (duration) | Target audience for trainees |
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Indiana University Agile Implementation Bootcamp (USA) 2017 | Agile Implementation Process; Specific IS competencies: Yes | <6 months | MS and PhD students, Postdoctoral students, Early- and mid-career faculty researchers, program implementers/evaluators, QI leaders |
Sick Kids Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate (Canada) 2010 | General IS research methods, IS methods in practice (e.g., planning, evaluating, stakeholder engagement, use of social media, interacting with the policy community, etc.) | 5 days | Program implementers/evaluators in clinical or public health settings |
Sick Kids Planning for Implementation Practice (PIP) (Canada) 2019 | General IS research methods, Participants are taught how to use an evidence-based implementation planning framework to plan for their implementation endeavor | 2 days | Program implementers/evaluators in clinical or public health settings |
Sick Kids Specialist Knowledge Translation Training (Canada) 2004 | General IS research methods (planning, evaluating, IS strategies, plain language communication) | 3 days | Early-career faculty researchers, mid-career faculty researchers, QI leaders, Other |
University of Arkansas Implementation Science Scholars Program (USA) 2020 | General IS research methods, includes focus on the overlap between QI, improvement science, and IS | 2 years | QI leaders/officers |
University of California San Francisco Implementation Science Short Course (USA) | General IS research methods | 2 days | Postdoctoral students, Early-career faculty researchers, mid-career faculty researchers, program implementers/evaluators in clinical or public health settings, Quality Improvement program leaders/officers |
University of Massachusetts Prevention and Control of Cancer: Training for Change in Individuals and Systems (USA) 2014 | Cancer Prevention and Control; Specific IS competencies: Yes | 2 years | Doctoral students, Postdoctoral students |
University of Missouri-Kansas City Training in Implementation: Actionable Research Approaches (TIARA) (USA) 2018 | General IS research methods; Specific IS competencies: Yes | <6 months | MS, PhD, and Postdoctoral students, Early- and mid-career faculty researchers, Program implementers/evaluators and QI program leaders/officers |
University of South Florida Institute for Translational Research Education in Adolescent Drug Abuse (USA) 2012 | General IS research methods, Adolescent behavioral health including alcohol use/abuse, drug use/abuse, mental disorders, and at-risk populations (e.g., Native American youth and families, foster care youth) | 1 year | MS and PhD students, Program implementers/evaluators, Clinicians, EBP developers |
University of Washington Fundamentals of Implementation Science Online Course (USA) 2015 | General IS research methods | <6 months | MS students, Program implementers/evaluators, QI program leaders/officers |
University of Washington Implementation Science Intensive Summer Institute (USA) 2014 | General IS research methods, There are 2 tracks: intro to IS and advanced IS methods | <6 months | MS/PhD students, Postdoctoral students, Early-career faculty researchers, Program implementers/evaluators |
World Health Organization (WHO) TDR Massive Open Online Course on Implementation Research with a focus on Infectious Diseases of Poverty (Switzerland) 2016 | Illustration of IS concepts with examples from Lower Middle Income countries; Specific IS competencies: Yes | <6 months | Early-career faculty researchers, mid-career faculty researchers, program implementers/evaluators |
Note. IS = implementation science; ISCBP = Implementation Science Capacity Building Program; Inclusion criteria: multi-day intensive training.