Table 1 Conceptual framework for data synthesis

What works?

Intervention

Comparison or Control

Any method of teaching (including lecture, workshops, small group, problem-based, computer assisted, self-directed, or online learning, distance education or bedside teaching) compared with no educational intervention, or a comparison with an intervention listed above

For whom?

Population

Health professions trainees at both undergraduate and post-graduate entry levels

Under which circumstances?

Timing, duration

Study type

Randomised-controlled trials with interventions of any duration or frequency

To what end?

Outcome

EBP competency as measured by changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes or behaviour