The role of Allied Health Professions and Nursing Research Internships in developing a research culture: a mixed-methods exploration of stakeholder perspectives

Table 3 The Kirkpatrick Training Evaluation Model used as a framework for the Health Education England/National Institute for Health Research Internship evaluation findings

Level	Kirkpatrick model focus	Kirkpatrick model question	Internship evaluation focus	Potential topics
1	Reaction	To what degree participants react favourably to the learning event	Stakeholder experiences of the programme	Recruitment and programme experiences
2	Learning	To what degree participants acquire the intended knowledge, skills and attitudes based on their participation in the learning event	Programme outcomes: impact on the individual intern	Completion rates; changes to intern’s knowledge, skills and attributes (e.g. confidence)
3	Behaviour	To what degree participants apply what they learned during training when they are back on the job	Learning transferred and applied into clinical practice	Impact beyond self to others (e.g. research champion, research culture)
4	Results	To what degree the targeted outcome occurs, as a result of the learning event(s) and their subsequent reinforcement	Research career progression and impact within an organisational context	Progression to Integrated Clinical Academic pathway and roles; other indicators of research career progression

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