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Description: Description: Abstract Objective: To understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to the characteristics of student led clinics. This scoping review will identify the following: (1) What student-led clinics exist in the allied health professions and (2) what are their characteristics? Introduction: Student led clinics can provide students from allied health professions with the opportunity to gain valuable placement experience as an integral component of their pre-registration programme enabling them to develop their competencies and professional skills and also their administrative and leadership skills. Student led clinics have the capacity to help meet the demand for appropriate practice based learning opportunities as there is an expectation that all allied health professions students should have high quality practice based learning experiences to ensure the workforce is fit for the future. Inclusion criteria: This scoping review will consider studies that specifically focus on student led clinics, regardless of geographical location, that are led by allied health students within a higher education context. Student led clinics that take place in environments outside of an educational setting (community and hospital settings) will be considered for inclusion as long as they are an integral part of the pre-registration curriculum. Methods: Databases to be searched are PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, ERIC, Science Direct, PsycArticles, PsycINFO, TRIP database, and ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Database, ProQuest One Academic, The Cochrane Library and JBI EBP database. Following the search, all identified citations will be collated and uploaded into a bibliographic software or citation management system and duplicates removed (REF Works). Potentially relevant sources will be retrieved and imported into the Covidence screening and data extraction tool. Study selection will be completed by two independent reviewers for assessment against the inclusion criteria for the review. Data will be extracted from papers using a data extraction tool. Data will be charted using the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist in alignment with the review objectives.