Remediation practices for health profession students and clinicians: An integrative review.

Background: The current state of practices in health care remediation is not well known. The purpose of this review is to characterize, assess, and present synthesized results of current student and professional remediation practices described in the literature.

Methods: This study used an integrative review process including article extraction and review, descriptive characterization and statistics, classification of levels of evidence, assessment of risk of bias, and examination of relationships between factors and types of remediation. Articles were located in a search of PubMed (MEDLINE) and EBSCO (CINAHL Complete) last accessed in May 2022.

Inclusion Criteria: Full text journal articles and Briefs published between January 2001 and May 2022, English language, focus on remediation in health science education programs and professionals, identified key words in title, abstract, or article.

Exclusion Criteria: Published outside the date range; focus of study or article outside health sciences; main focus not on remediation process or program (defined above), books, presentations and abstracts.

Results: 97 articles were included. Design rigor clustered around Level 6 (case-controlled studies, case series, case reports). All programs and activities were reported as successful. There was a statistically significant relationship (p < 0.01) between healthcare discipline and type of remediation.

Conclusions: A variety of remediation methods for health care students and professionals are reported to be successful. Higher level studies are needed to help define best practices for remediation activities in health care professional knowledge and skill.