Evidence into Action: A Knowledge Translation Course

Start things off with a down-to-earth, self-paced crash course in critical appraisal and knowledge translation — the stuff most of us haven’t touched since grad school but secretly know we should feel more confident with. (Even if you aren't taking the course you can find these materials in the free resources section). Once you’ve had time to review and really get your bearings, you’ll take a 75-question certification exam designed not to trick you, but to help you prove (to yourself and to everyone else) that you can evaluate and apply research without breaking into a stress-sweat.

Pass it (and the rest of the course), and you’ll walk away with a shiny, legitimate reminder that you’re committed to making your clinical decisions as informed, intentional, and patient-centered as possible.

Listen, we all know research papers are … technical. Sometimes when I’m skimming an abstract I just want to shake my laptop and groan “just tell me what you’re about in human language, please!!” My philosophy is let’s not waste mental energy dissecting scientific and statistical jargon before we even know if we are interested in the study.

That’s what the library is for.

I’m not going to read the study for you. I’m not going to include the full text in the library. I’m not going to simply condense the abstract.

What the platform will do:

✅ Filter through hundreds of thousands of studies spilling out of the wood work each month

✅ Organize them into patient population and further by study interest (clinical characteristic, neurophysiology, interventions, assessments)

✅ Provide the direct link to the publishing site with color coding to indicate open vs institutional/subscriber access

✅ Convert the jargon riddled abstract from mad scientist language to normal human being language - telling you what they were looking at, what they found, and why that’s clinically significant for neuro rehab. That way you can determine interest in the article without having to break out your into to statistics book from grad school.

All this to save your TIME and ENERGY: two incredibly valuable things for most busy clinicians, and well known barriers to knowledge translation and primary contributors to the ever growing gap between bench and bedside/clinic.

Suddenly countless hours of scrolling and filtering and skimming abstracts and trying to figure out what they mean is condensed into just a little bit of time and way less energy every week or month (depending on how dedicated you are).

Curious what that looks like? Check out the sample library from end of November to December below!

Across the year, you’ll work through five guided critical appraisals pulled straight from fresh, real-world research. Think of these as structured “training wheels” for getting comfortable dissecting study design, teasing apart the findings, and actually thinking through what any of it means for the humans in front of you.

Each activity walks you through the messy middle between theory and practice — helping you build the muscle of turning research into something you can use on Monday morning. By the end, you won’t just read studies… you’ll actually know what to do with them.

Wrap up your learning with your own Knowledge Translation Project — basically, your chance to take a shiny new research finding and walk it all the way from “interesting idea” to “this is now part of how I treat patients.” You’ll map out the steps, troubleshoot the real-world barriers, and actually implement the change in a way that’s meaningful, measurable, and doable.

It’s the final bridge from knowing the evidence to using it — showing that you can turn research into better outcomes for your patients and smoother workflows for your team.

Join a crew of fellow neuro rehab nerds who care about learning, growing, and trying to make sense of the constant flood of new research right alongside you. Inside the Neuro Nerd Community, you can swap ideas, ask the questions you’ve been too tired to Google, talk through tricky concepts, share lightbulb moments, and cheer each other on when things finally click.

It’s a space built for accountability and insight — but also for connection. By the end, you won’t just have more knowledge… you’ll have a network of people who get it, support you, and stick with you long after the course wraps.