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EPIC’s Implementation Science Mini Course

QUERI’s Evidence, Policy, and Implementation Center (EPIC) recently produced “Using Implementation Science to Move Innovations into Practice in VA Health Care Settings,” a mini course that aims to introduce VA employees to implementation science. The four-part course, available on demand through the HSR Cyberseminar page, explains what implementation science is, why VA employees need it, and how they can use implementation science to move their innovations into VA practice settings and prepare for sustainability and spread. The course is intended to promote a culture of knowledge translation and engage employees across VA in improving care at their site. Following the pre-implementation, implementation, and sustainment phases of the QUERI Implementation Roadmap, the presenters introduce VA employees to ways they can engage critical stakeholders, identify current gaps in VA practice, define success, assess outcomes, create a sustainability plan, and determine how Veterans will benefit long-term from the implementation of innovations.

The course features the following sessions:

• Implementation Science: What Is It and Why Should I Care? Presenters: A. Rani Elwy, PhD, and Eric Richardson, PhD
• Using Implementation Science Strategies and Fostering Buy-In. Presenters: Alison Hamilton, PhD, MPH, and A. Rani Elwy, PhD
• Evaluating Implementation Process and Outcomes. Presenters: Allen Gifford, MD, and A. Rani Elwy, PhD
• Planning for Sustainment. Presenters: Sara J. Landes, PhD, and A. Rani Elwy, PhD

About EPIC

Led by PIs Allen Gifford, MD, A. Rani Elwy, PhD, and Sara Landes, PhD, and program manager Samantha Ryan, MPH, EPIC develops and promotes state-of-the-art methods, metrics, products, and implementation science resources to accelerate the translation of research discoveries into routine care and policy within the VA healthcare system.