Table 1.

PICOS, Inclusion Criteria and Exclusion Criteria Applied to Database Search

	Inclusion	Exclusion
Population	• Doctors/Physicians • Medical Students	• Allied health specialties such as Pharmacy, Dietetics, Chiropractic, Midwifery, Podiatry, Speech Therapy, Occupational and Physiotherapy • Non-medical specialties such as Clinical and Translational Science, Alternative and Traditional Medicine, Veterinary, Dentistry
Intervention	• Interventions (with specific outcomes i.e. qualitative/quantitative)	• Sympathy • Self-compassion • Compassion • If empathy is only minor component of scale/assessment (eg, surveys) • Transference/Countertransference • Psychotherapy
Comparison	NA	NA
Outcomes	• Impact of curricula on participants, patients, or host organisation	NA
Study Design	• All study designs and article types were included: - Mixed methods research, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, and descriptive papers - Grey Literature / electronic and print information not controlled by commercial publishing - Case reports and series, ideas, editorials, conference abstracts, and perspectives	• Non-English articles without English translations