Toward evidence-informed medical curricula: A scoping review protocol on social skills and emotional regulation.

ABSTRACT: Medical education is considered psychologically challenging, and medical students often report higher levels of psychological distress compared to non-medical students and the general population. This scoping review aims to identify and map the available scientific evidence on social skills and emotional regulation in medical students, characterize existing studies, identify knowledge gaps, and provide a synthesis of evidence to inform educational practice and curriculum development. This scoping review will follow the methodological frameworks proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and the PRISMA-ScR checklist. Relevant studies will be searched in electronic databases (EMBASE, ERIC, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, and Web of Science) and gray literature sources. The search strategy

SUBMITTER: Molina TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11787439 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature