Identifying costs in health professions education: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Profound changes in the healthcare sector and the growing, global shortage of healthcare workers are driving the demand to update and scale-up health professions education (HPE). At the same time, educational institutions are faced with increasing resource scarcity and decisions of where and how to allocate resources must be made conscious of costs. However, costs are known to be inaccurately and incompletely identified in HPE research. Therefore, to improve rigour in cost evidence and enable its use in decision-making, it is necessary to have a better understanding of the costs, stakeholders and cost identification methods being used in HPE research. This protocol has been developed to outline the rationale and methods for a scoping review of the literature intended t

SUBMITTER: Yaros J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10582908 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature