Week one of the AO Davos Courses 2024: Bridging generations to advance excellence in trauma and musculoskeletal care
“Knowledge translation is so much more than educating clinicians about the newest research. It involves community development, education, and research—and it’s different in every region—liftoff.”
Charles Fisher, Chairperson AO Spine Knowledge Translation Steering Committee
Currently, the committee is working on understanding how clinicians in different settings learn and what it takes for them to adapt new findings for their practice. “Obviously, if it currently takes 15 years, what we’re doing right now isn’t working,” said Fisher.
The two pilot projects for implementing the AO-tailored Knowledge Translation framework had to fulfill several criteria. First and foremost, their findings had to be easy to integrate into clinicians’ practice—not resource-heavy, generalizable, and of good quality. With the pilots—EPOSO and TLA3/A4, —selected, the committee recently convened in London to refine tailored Knowledge Translation plans, including strategies to measure their translational efforts.
“I am hoping that our work will eventually contribute to reducing the knowledge gap by five to ten years,” said Fisher. “But I also want to get some answers to why it actually takes so long.”