Global health competencies in UK postgraduate medical training: a scoping review and curricular content analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess global health (GH) training in all postgraduate medical education in the UK.

Design

Mixed methodology: scoping review and curricular content analysis using two GH competency frameworks.

Setting and participants

A scoping review (until December 2017) was used to develop a framework of GH competencies for doctors. National postgraduate medical training curricula were analysed against this and a prior framework for GH competencies. The number of core competencies addressed and/or appearing in each programme was recorded.

Outcomes

The scoping review identified eight relevant publications. A 16-competency framework was developed and, with a prior 5-competency framework, used to analyse each of 71 postgraduate medical curricula. Curricula were exa

SUBMITTER: Al-Shakarchi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720244 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature