Health professions education and unprofessional behaviour in the global south: a scoping review of conceptions, theoretical frameworks, and prevalence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding how unprofessionalism is interpreted and enacted in low- and middle-income countries is essential for developing health professionals that are contextually and socially grounded. The scoping review explores and maps existing scientific evidence on unprofessional behaviour in health professions education from a Global South perspective. The review was informed by the research question: How is unprofessional behaviour defined, conceptualised, and framed theoretically in health professions education within the Global South?

Methods

Using a scoping review, we retrieved 382 articles, of which 14 articles were published between 2004 and 2024. The articles were retrieved across PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost (Academic Search Complete, Hea

SUBMITTER: Pienaar L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12751322 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature