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Table 1 PICOS, inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria applied to literature search on medical ethics training programs

From: Postgraduate ethics training programs: a systematic scoping review

Teaching of ethics

PICOS

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

 Population

Junior doctors, residents, senior residents, registrars and or medical officers undergoing postgraduate training

Undergraduate and postgraduate medical students

Allied health specialties such as Pharmacy, Dietetics, Chiropractic, Midwifery, Podiatry, Speech Therapy, Occupational and Physiotherapy

Non-medical specialties such as Clinical and Translational Science, Alternative and Traditional Medicine, Veterinary, Dentistry

 Intervention

Practices in nurturing and teaching ethics of doctors

 

 Comparison

Comparisons of the various practices (approaches, modalities, processes, objectives, motivations, challenges, facilitating characteristics/resources)

 

 Outcome

Approaches, modalities, processes, objectives, motivations, challenges, facilitating characteristics/resources in nurturing and teaching ethics

Impact of teaching ethics on host organisation, assessors, and assessments

 

 Study Design

Articles in English or translated to English

All study designs including:

o Mixed methods research, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, and descriptive papers

Year of Publication: 1 January 1990–31 December 2019

Databases: PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, ERIC

Grey Literature / electronic and print information not controlled by commercial publishing

Articles focusing on non-human subjects

Assessing of ethics

 Population

Junior doctors, residents, senior residents, registrars and or medical officers undergoing postgraduate training

Undergraduate and postgraduate medical students

Allied health specialties such as Pharmacy, Dietetics, Chiropractic, Midwifery, Podiatry, Speech Therapy, Occupational and Physiotherapy

Non-medical specialties such as Clinical and Translational Science, Alternative and Traditional Medicine, Veterinary, Dentistry

 Intervention

Practices in assessing ethics of postgraduate doctors

 

 Comparison

Comparisons of the various practices (approaches, modalities, processes, objectives, motivations, challenges, facilitating characteristics/resources)

 

 Outcome

Approaches, modalities, processes, objectives, motivations, challenges, facilitating characteristics/resources in nurturing and teaching ethics

Impact of teaching ethics on host organisation, assessors, and learners

 

 Study design

Articles in English or translated to English

All study designs including:

Mixed methods research, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, and descriptive papers

Year of Publication: 1 January 1990–31 December 2019

Databases: PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, ERIC

Grey Literature/electronic and print information not controlled by commercial publishing

Articles focusing on non-human subjects