Exploring Current Practices, Needs, and Barriers for Expanding Distributed Medical Education and Scholarship in Psychiatry: Protocol for an Environmental Scan Using a Formal Information Search Approach and Explanatory Design

Lara Hazelton   ^{1 *} , MEd, MD ;   Raquel da Luz Dias   ^{1 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Mandy Esliger   ^{1 *} , MEd ;   Philip Tibbo   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Nachiketa Sinha   ^{2 *} , MBBS, MBA ;   Anthony Njoku   ^{2 *} , MBBS, MRCPsych ;   Satyendra Satyanarayana   ^{2 *} , MSc, MD ;   Sanjay Siddhartha   ^{2 *} , MBBS, MD ;   Peggy Alexiadis-Brown   ^{2 *} , MEd ;   Faisal Rahman   ^{3 *} , MD ;   Hugh Maguire   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Gerald Gray   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Mark Bosma   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Deborah Parker   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Owen Connolly   ^{1 *} , BSc ;   Adewale Raji   ^{1 *} , MBBS, MA ;   Alexandra Manning   ^{1, 6 *} , MD ;   Alexa Bagnell   ^{1, 6 *} , MD ;   Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong   ^{1 *} , MSc, MD, PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Saint John, NB, Canada

³ Mental Health and Addictions Program, Nova Scotia Health, Antigonish, NS, Canada

⁴ Mental Health and Addictions Program, Nova Scotia Health, Truro, NS, Canada

⁵ Mental Health and Addictions Program, Nova Scotia Health, Kentville, NS, Canada

⁶ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, IWK Health, Halifax, NS, Canada

*all authors contributed equally