Objectives
To provide an overview of the holistic impact of the armed conflict on medical education and health professionals’ training (MEHPT) in Syria.
Setting
Syria is a country which underwent an armed conflict for 10 years and suffered from the weaponisation of health.
Methods
A mixed-methods systematic review including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods and textual literature between 2011 and 2021 including papers on the Syrian MEHPT undergraduate and postgraduate education and training personnel (including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals). The electronic search was conducted in October 2018 in Embase, Global Health, Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL and grey literature. And an update to the search was conducted in August 2021 in PubMed, Google Scholar and Trip database.