en آموزش پزشکی Medical Education پژوهشي اصیل Orginal Research <span style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><b><span lang="FR">Background & Objective: </span></b>Graduate and postgraduate theses in medical sciences aim to identify clinical problems, propose therapeutic strategies, and inform health policies. However, their findings are often not applied in practice. This study explored barriers to implementing results from postgraduate theses.<span lang="FR"><span style="color:red"></span></span><br> <b><span lang="FR">Materials & Methods:</span></b> This qualitative study employed a conventional content analysis approach and was conducted from January 31 to March 31, 2025. Ten faculty members participated, selected through purposive sampling until data saturation was achieved. Data were collected via semi-structured, individual interviews and analyzed using Elo and Kyng&auml;s&rsquo;s method. To ensure the trustworthiness of the findings, Lincoln and Guba&rsquo;s criteria&mdash;credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability&mdash;were applied.<br> <b><span lang="FR">Results:</span></b> Qualitative data analysis yielded 500 initial codes, which were organized into 63 subcategories, 12 primary categories, and ultimately synthesized into 4 main categories. The four categories included: &ldquo;barriers related to researchers and research itself&rdquo;, &ldquo;barriers related to organizational and managerial environments&rdquo;, &ldquo;barriers related to healthcare professionals and staff&rdquo;, and &ldquo;barriers related to policy and regulations&rdquo;. The overarching, abstracted theme was identified as &ldquo;systematic barriers to the application of research findings in the health system&rdquo;.<span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span><br> <b><span lang="FR">Conclusion:</span></b> This study identified four main categories of barriers that hinder the use of research evidence in healthcare: researcher- and research-related, organizational, professional, and policy barriers. Overcoming these challenges requires coordinated, multi-level strategies engaging researchers, healthcare providers, managers, and policymakers. Systematic action in these areas can promote evidence-informed decision-making and improve patient outcomes.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:9.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:#538135"></span></span></span></span></span></span> medical research, obstacles, researchers, students, academic dissertation 18 29 http://edujournal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-12-3010-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mostafa Rad mostafarad633@yahoo.com 5300319475328460036274 5300319475328460036274 No Iranian Research Center of Healthy Aging, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran. Mansoureh Feizabadi ha_yazdimoghaddam@yahoo.com 5300319475328460036275 5300319475328460036275 No Department of Scientometrics, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran Hossein Assarzadeh feizabadi_mns@ut.ac.ir 5300319475328460036276 5300319475328460036276 No School of Medicine, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran Reza Chaman assarzadeh@medsab.ac.ir 5300319475328460036277 5300319475328460036277 No Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran Hamideh Yazdimoghaddam rezachaman@yahoo.com 5300319475328460036278 5300319475328460036278 No Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran Seyed Alireza Javadinia Javadinia.alireza@gmail.com 5300319475328460036279 5300319475328460036279 Yes Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran