Table 1 PICOs, inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria applied to database search
From: A systematic scoping review of group reflection in medical education
Group reflections in medical education | ||
|---|---|---|
| Â | Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
Population | Junior doctors, residents, specialists, and/or doctors, and/or physicians within the clinical, medical, research and/or academic settings Undergraduate and postgraduate medical students Allied health specialties such as Pharmacy, Dietetics, Chiropractic, Midwifery, Podiatry, Speech Therapy, Occupational and Physiotherapy, Physician Assistants | Non-medical specialties such as Clinical and Translational Science, Alternative and Traditional Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dentistry |
Intervention | Papers that addressed the incorporation of group reflections for junior doctors, residents, specialists, and/or doctors, and/or physicians, and/or medical students within the clinical, medical, research and/or academic settings Papers that addressed assessment of group reflections | Papers with little detail of implementation or assessment of group reflections in curriculum Papers that evaluated group reflections for purposes other than improving reflective capacity of users |
Comparison Outcome | Papers that addressed the following comparisons were also included: Comparison of the various uses of group reflections in different teaching settings Evaluation of the effectiveness of reflections in comparison to other educational interventions Papers that discussed group reflections without the above comparisons were also included. Papers that measured the following outcomes were also included: Impact of the use of group reflections on junior doctors, residents, specialists, and/or doctors, and/or physicians, and/or medical students within the clinical, medical, research and/or academic settings Impact of the use of group reflections on teaching Impact of the use of group reflections on assessment Gaps and improvements to current group reflections programmes | Â |
Study design | All study designs including: mixed methods research, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, descriptive papers, grey literature, opinions, letters, commentaries and editorials Articles in English or translated to English Year of Publication: 2000–2022 | Non-English language articles |