{
  "abstract": "Introduction The digital transformation of healthcare has created an urgent need for primary care physicians (PCPs) to acquire competencies in digital health. However, the structure and scope of postgraduate training programmes remain poorly defined and unevenly implemented worldwide, and no scoping review has yet synthesised the evidence. This review aims to map existing postgraduate digital health training programmes for PCPs, including their content, structure and delivery approaches.Methods and analysis This scoping review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and adhere to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist. A systematic search will be conducted across five databases (PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect and Web of Science) and relevant grey literature, covering publications from January 2019 to June 2025. Studies describing postgraduate digital health training programmes for PCPs will be eligible for inclusion. Data will be extracted and synthesised descriptively and thematically using an inductive approach.Ethics and dissemination As this study is based on a review of publicly available literature, ethical approval is not required. The findings will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and conference presentations and will inform future curriculum development and policy in digital health education for PCPs. The results may also inform national curriculum reforms and accreditation standards, supporting more consistent and competency-based digital health education globally.PROSPERO registration details This scoping review protocol has been registered with the Open Science Framework.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Psychology and Sociology, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "Sandra León-Herrera"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil"
      ],
      "name": "Vinicius Anjos De Almeida"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey"
      ],
      "name": "Sıdıka Ece Yokuş"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Edmond Li"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England, UK",
        "Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Brazil"
      ],
      "name": "Sandro Rogerio Rodrigues Batista"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Joana Teixeira"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England, UK",
        "CINTESIS@RISE, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal"
      ],
      "name": "Ana Luisa Neves"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Rehaklinik, Centre Hospitalier Neuro-Psychiatrique (CHNP), Ettelbruck, Luxembourg",
        "Research Group Self-Regulation and Health, Institute for Health and Behaviour, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg"
      ],
      "name": "Raquel Gómez Bravo"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Postgraduate digital health training programmes for primary care physicians: a scoping review protocol",
  "uid": "6974b0ba-f20c-53a6-97ff-98890b561c73"
}