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  Search strategy details for UK AHP research capacity building scoping review Articles were searched from the identified key databases for Allied Health Professions: Medline (Ebsco), CINAHL Complete, PubMed, APA PsycInfo and SPORTDiscus. The Population Concept Context (PCC) framework was utilised to identify the key terms that would be used to build the searches in the database’s search engines 1. The PCC components and the keywords are demonstrated in the table below. PCC Components and definitions Identified keywords/terms (and how they were constructed in the search engines) Population (UK formally recognised Allied Health Professions) Art therapist (“art therap*”), Drama therapist (“drama therap*”), Music therapist (“music therap*”), Dietitian (dietitian*/dietetic*), Osteopath (osteopath*), Operating department practitioner (“operating department practi*”/ODP), Speech and language therapist (“speech and language therap...

Fellow PhD's experience so far

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Reflection is a huge and significant part of my personal and professional development. The simplest way to go about it is to not differentiate between the two (professional and personal reflection). The end goal is the same in both instances and this far exceeds the need to distinguish between these instances. I was excited when a fellow doctoral student shared the news that her article was going to be published. After reading through it, I thought I would not want to be selfish and not share this reflective account detailing this beautiful journey. Besides, this would be a good thing as it gives a different perspective to my previously published account which you can have a read on here . You can find this article by following this link . I hope this will give you an idea of the PhD life, from application to doctoral admission, to the different stages and what can be expected during your time of study.