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Recent policy positions from physician regulatory bodies express a desire for clarity regarding the impact of these health conditions alongside their standardization in physician regulatory processes. Furthermore, these conditions have not been fully enumerated. Therefore, this scoping review intended to find all health conditions which were identified in the literature to impact physician fitness-to-practice.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A specialist librarian developed and executed a systematic literature search in Ovid MEDLINE, Embase via Ovid, APA PsycINFO, and ProQuest Dissertations &amp; Theses Global (to January 2024). The SPIDER framework was used for inclusion criteria and records were screened independently by two reviewers by title and abstract, and then by full text. Any study addressing a health condition identified as able to affect fitness-to-practice in physicians and surgeons, physician assistants, or medical trainees was eligible.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In 403 eligible records of 2542 screened, 4336 total mentions of 203 fitness-to-practice-related health conditions were identified. Conditions relating to mental health issues (32.0%) and drug\/substance use (26.0%) comprised more than half of the condition reports. This was followed by neurological conditions (13.2%), medical conditions (12.8%), alcohol use (6.0%), addiction (3.0%), and aging (2.9%) as well as conditions affecting dexterity\/fine motor skills\/psychomotor performance (2.1%), vision (1.4%), and hearing (0.6%).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This scoping review identified a wide variety of health conditions which could affect physician fitness-to-practice, with a potential impact on patient care and safety. 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