Scoping Review of Educational Strategies for Laboratory Medicine Competency

Eleven studies from 2015 to 2025 map educational strategies for improving medical students' competency in laboratory medicine, a field supporting 70% of clinical decisions. The review, conducted by Yonggang Yang and published on figshare in 2026, synthesizes strategies from China, Iran, the USA, and other countries. It identifies three main themes: structured clinical integration, technology-enhanced simulation, and collaborative workplace learning.

Use Cases

• Analyzing educational strategy effectiveness based on the three synthesized themes: structured integration, technology-enhanced simulation, and collaborative learning.
• Identifying research gaps in laboratory medicine education based on the review's findings of limited coverage for test selection and critical value management.
• Comparing instructional contexts and resources across different countries based on the included studies from China, Iran, the USA, and others.

Strengths

• Follows established scoping review frameworks (Arksey and O'Malley) and reporting guidelines (PRISMA-ScR).
• Synthesizes findings from 11 studies published between 2015 and 2025, providing a contemporary mapping.
• Explicitly identifies three major thematic categories of educational strategies from the reviewed literature.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 215.3 KB document summarizing a review; the underlying primary data from the 11 studies is not included.
• Row count and column-level documentation for any extracted data are unknown, limiting detailed analysis.
• The review's findings are based on a limited number of included studies, which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Scoping review following the Arksey and O'Malley framework, with searches in PubMed, WOS, CNKI, and other databases.

Time Range

2015-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 04:27:47

Geography

Primarily China, Iran, USA, and others