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Article History

Received: 8 December 2023

Accepted: 31 January 2024

First Online: 23 February 2024

Declarations

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: The MBAT-Rx course offering constituted a curricular activity at the medical school. We did not collect any information related to participant demographics, questionnaires, or any research-related measure. We simply offered a voluntary feedback survey at the end of the course that participants could anonymously answer regarding specific questions related to the MBAT-Rx course delivery. We consulted with the Brown University IRB to determine whether simply offering the course to medical students with this feedback form met the regulatory definition of “Research” requiring IRB approval. According to Brown University IRB policy (), our program evaluation did <i><u>not</u></i> meet the regulatory criteria for “Research”. This is because the program evaluation presented here was not designed to be a systematic investigation that was hypothesis driven, and was not designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. The goal was simply to see specific feedback from MBAT-Rx participants at Brown about what factors they found useful in the delivery and experience of the program so we could better refine our delivery of this program and understand its utility for students, prior to undertaking future research efforts that may lead to generalizable knowledge, for which we have secured separate IRB approval.

: Not applicable.

: Amishi Jha and Scott Rogers are co-developers and copyright holders of the Mindfulness-Based Attention Training program materials. All other authors declare no competing interests.