Teaching professional writing in prelicensure health professional education programs: a scoping review
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Résumé
OBJECTIVE: This review aimed to map the literature on teaching strategies used to teach professional writing to prelicensure students enrolled in health professional programs. INTRODUCTION: Health education programs must teach students how to practice professional writing as it is a fundamental skill for effective communication in health care. Professional writing is crucial for ensuring continuity of care, promoting patient safety, and meeting regulatory and institutional standards. Understanding the teaching strategies used to develop professional writing skills is important because it helps educators identify the most effective methods for preparing students for practice. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: This review considered studies on teaching strategies used by faculty at any academic institution, in any country, to teach professional writing in prelicensure health professional programs. Disciplines such as medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine were included. Strategies included any intentional activity (in-person or virtual) aimed at developing students' professional writing. Professional writing included writing for the purpose of recording assessments or interventions, conveying information to a care team, communicating with patients, or demonstrating compliance with professional or institutional policies or practices. METHODS: This review followed the JBI methodology for scoping reviews. Published literature was located in MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCOhost), ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health (ProQuest), and ERIC (EBSCOhost). A search for unpublished research reports was conducted in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD), and OAIster (WorldCat). The reference lists of all included studies were manually back-searched for additional studies, and Google Scholar and Web of Science Core Collection were used for forward citation tracking to identify further studies. Search results were limited from 2010 to the present, and only reports written in English and French were eligible. Data were extracted from studies that met the eligibility criteria by 2 independent reviewers. Data are presented in tabular format to address findings related to the review objectives. RESULTS: Thirty-three studies from 7 countries, published between 2010 and 2025, were included. All studies examined at least 1 teaching strategy, and included 5 disciplines: nursing, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. Three additional studies focused on interprofessional education. A variety of strategies was used to teach professional writing, with the most common being didactic methods such as lectures, as well as checklists. These strategies included group and individualized modes of delivery and targeted a range of professional writing types, including assessments, discharge summaries, prescriptions, and patient education materials. CONCLUSION: Most of the studies included in this review were published within the last 5 years, highlighting the growing recognition of the need to prepare future health care graduates to write professionally. This review reveals a gap in understanding of the most effective methods for teaching professional writing in prelicensure programs. Future research should identify the best teaching strategies and develop standardized evaluation metrics to ensure that health profession students are fully equipped to meet the writing demands of clinical practice. REVIEW REGISTRATION: OSF https://osf.io/nveqr/.
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Comment cette classification a été obtenuedéplier
Prédiction machine sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Le volet Gemma est une étiquette directe du modèle pour chaque travail de la base, lue sur la notice réduite au titre. Le volet Codex est un classifieur appris des 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et calibré sur les taux pondérés de l'échantillon; les champs sans appui suffisant ne portent aucun appel Codex. Le mode candidate est l'union des deux volets; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont pas des étiquettes humaines.
Scores du classifieur distillé par catégorie (deux têtes)
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,017 | 0,075 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,004 | 0,004 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,020 | 0,018 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,002 | 0,002 |
| Communication savante | 0,005 | 0,005 |
| Science ouverte | 0,003 | 0,002 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,003 | 0,002 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,004 | 0,001 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule source (Gemma direct ou Codex distillé), pas un consensus.
Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».