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Table 1 PICOs, Inclusion Criteria and Exclusion Criteria Applied to Database Search

From: Assessing professional identity formation (PIF) amongst medical students in Oncology and Palliative Medicine postings: a SEBA guided scoping review

PICOs

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Population

• Undergraduate medical schools

• Postgraduate medical schools

• All qualified physicians (including residents) within the postgraduate clinical, medical, research and/ or academic settings without the mention of medical schools

• Allied health specialties such as Pharmacy, Dietetics, Chiropractic, Midwifery, Podiatry, Speech Therapy, Occupational and Physiotherapy without the mention of medical schools

• Non-medical specialties such as Clinical and Translational Science, Alternative and Traditional Medicine, Veterinary, Dentistry without the mention of medical schools

Intervention

• Methods of assessing professional identity formation of medical students

NA

Comparison

• Comparisons of the assessment tools, including the assessment principles, modalities and criteria

NA

Outcome

• Assessment principles, modalities and criteria

• Impact of assessment on those being assessed

NA

Study design

• Articles in English or translated to English

• Grey Literature / electronic and print information not controlled by commercial publishing

• All study designs including:

◦ Mixed methods research, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, case–control studies, cross-sectional studies, and descriptive papers

• Year of Publication: 1st Jan 2000 – 31st Dec 2021

• Databases: PubMed, Embase, ERIC, Scopus

• Case reports and series, ideas, editorials, conference abstracts, and perspectives