Factors impacting on retention, success and equitable participation in clinical academic careers: a scoping review and meta-thematic synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine and synthesise current evidence on the factors that affect recruitment, retention, participation and progression within the clinical academic pathway, focusing on equitable participation across protected characteristics including gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Design

Scoping review and meta-thematic synthesis.

Data sources

Web of Science, Google Scholar.

Article selection

We conducted a scoping review of English language articles on factors affecting recruitment, retention, progression and equitable participation in clinical academic careers published in North America, Australasia and Western Europe between January 2005 and April 2019. The most recent and relevant 39 articles were selected for meta-thematic synthesis using detai

SUBMITTER: Vassie C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7170560 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature