ABSTRACT

Objective This study aims to establish how the phenomenon of patient safety education manifests within undergraduate medical curricula. The specific objectives are to conduct a concept analysis, in order to make explicit the concept of patient safety education and inform its operational definition. Thereafter, to conduct a scoping review, in order to systematically map what educational content is taught, who is taught that content, and how that content is taught.

Introduction Preliminary searches identified four extant systematic reviews, published between 2010 and 2022, which investigated different aspects of how patient safety education manifested within undergraduate medical curricula. Notwithstanding, those findings do not provide a sufficiently robust basis to inform contemporaneous discourse.

Eligibility criteria The participants, concept, and context framework will be used to determine the evidence sources eligible for inclusion in the scoping review. Eligible participants will include learners matriculated on undergraduate medical programmes, and the educators that teach learners on those programmes. The concept will be patient safety education, according to an operational definition that will be established. Eligible contexts will include the taught curricula of undergraduate programmes in medicine.

Methods An exploratory and descriptive study that will sequentially implement the Walker and Avant framework for concept analysis and the updated JBI methodology for scoping reviews. Eight electronic databases and one internet search engine will be utilised to identify sources published between 1 May 2014 and 30 November 2024. Pre-defined eligibility criteria will be used to select sources. Data will be extracted and analysed, and findings will be presented.

Competing Interest Statement

The authors have declared no competing interest.

Funding Statement

This study did not receive a specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, and / or not for profit sectors.

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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Data sharing is not applicable to this protocol as no new data were created or analysed.

ACRONYMSPRESSpeer review of electronic search strategiesPRISMApreferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysesPRISMA-ScRpreferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses extension for scoping reviews