OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Physiology Education is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Lessons learned while creating an effective emergency remote learning environment for students during the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Evaluating the performance of ChatGPT in medical physiology university examination of phase I MBBS	39
Effect of blended learning with BOPPPS model on Chinese student outcomes and perceptions in an introduction course of health services management	36
Medical students’ perception of the reliability, usefulness and feasibility of unproctored online formative assessment tests	35
Another look at the core concepts of physiology: revisions and resources	34
Flipped teaching eased the transition from face-to-face teaching to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Student assessment of online tools to foster engagement during the COVID-19 quarantine	32
Smartphone-assisted experimentation as a didactic strategy to maintain practical lessons in remote education: alternatives for physiology education during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Reimagining physiology education with interactive content developed in H5P	27
Moving student research forward during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Teaching evidence-based medicine with electronic databases for preclinical education	22
Virtual flipped teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Are virtual physiology laboratories effective for student learning? A systematic review	21
Implementation of flipped classroom combined with case- and team-based learning in residency training	20
Reflections on core concepts for undergraduate physiology programs	20
It’s in the syllabus … or is it? How biology syllabi can serve as communication tools for creating inclusive classrooms at a large-enrollment research institution	19
Lessons from the impact of COVID-19 on medical educational continuity and practices	17
Undergraduates from underrepresented groups gain research skills and career aspirations through summer research fellowship	16
A preference for peers over faculty: implementation and evaluation of medical student-led physiology exam review tutorials	15
The effectiveness of formative assessment in pathophysiology education from students’ perspective: a questionnaire study	15
Switching from face-to-face to an online teaching strategy: how anatomy and physiology teaching transformed post-COVID-19 for a university preprofessional program	14
Effect of an active learning methodology combined with formative assessments on performance, test anxiety, and stress of university students	14
Pathophysiology teaching reform during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Physiology core concepts in the classroom: reflections from faculty	14
To what extent do preclinical veterinary students in the UK utilize online resources to study physiology	14

Not yet a dinosaur: the chalk talk	13
Evaluation of core concepts of physiology in undergraduate physiology curricula: results from faculty and student surveys	13
What do we mean when we talk about “structure/function” relationships?	13
Effect of self-regulated learning and technology-enhanced activities on anatomy learning, engagement, and course outcomes in a problem-based learning program	13
Do-it-yourself physiology labs: Can hands-on laboratory classes be effectively replicated online?	13
A meme-based approach for enhancing student engagement and learning in renal physiology	13
Undergraduate research programs build skills for diverse students	13
Establishing consensus for the core concepts of physiology in the Australian higher education context using the Delphi method	13
International educators’ attitudes, experiences, and recommendations after an abrupt transition to remote physiology laboratories	12
Student performance and perceptions of anatomy and physiology across face-to-face, hybrid, and online teaching lab styles	12
Use of core concepts of physiology can facilitate student transfer of learning	12
We, um, have, like, a problem: excessive use of fillers in scientific speech	12
The effectiveness of combining e-learning, peer teaching, and flipped classroom for delivering a physiology laboratory course to nursing students	11
The benefits of incorporating active learning into online, asynchronous coursework in dental physiology	11
The racist “one drop rule” influencing science: it is time to stop teaching “race corrections” in medicine	11
Student perceptions on synchronous virtual versus face-to-face teaching for leader-centered and participant-centered postgraduate activities during COVID-19	11
Professional skills for physiology majors: defining and refining	11
Core concepts in physiology: teaching homeostasis through pattern recognition	11
Incorporating higher order thinking and deep learning in a large, lecture-based human physiology course: can we do it?	11
Tackling acid-base disorders, one Twitter poll at a time	10
Do students effectively learn physiology through distance online instruction? Medical students’ perceptions and academic performance	10
The impact of COVID-19 on student learning during the transition from remote to in-person learning: using mind mapping to identify and address faculty concerns	10
Impact of COVID-19 on access to laboratories and human participants: exercise science faculty perspectives	10
Validating The Core Concept Of “Mass Balance”	9
Programming course for health science as a strategy to engage students during the coronavirus pandemic	9
Retrospective analysis of a STEM outreach event reveals positive influences on student attitudes toward STEM careers but not scientific methodology	9
Mapping the core concepts of physiology across Australian university curricula	9
Adaptive strategies to conduct participant-centric structured virtual group discussions for postgraduate students in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Rain Classroom assisted by WeChat for preliminary online physiology teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Should students change their answers on multiple choice questions?	9
A classic experiment revisited: membrane permeability changes during the action potential	8
Examining the relationships between medical students’ preferred online instructional strategies, course difficulty level, learning performance, and effectiveness	8
Design, implementation, and assessment of an interactive simulation to teach undergraduate immunology students hemolytic disease of the newborn	8
The past, the present, and the future of flipped teaching	8
Ten maxims for creating a safe learning environment	8
The case for coordinating efforts to establish program guidelines and strengthen physiology undergraduate degree programs	8
The peer teachers’ perception of intrinsic motivation and rewards	7
New era of medical education: asynchronous and synchronous online teaching during and after COVID-19	7
Quantitative study of lecture attendance and the association between this attendance and academic outcomes for nursing and nonnursing students in an introductory pathophysiology course	7
Design and evaluation of a new consolidation exercise for students studying cardiac physiology: a digital escape room	7
A color-coded graphical guide to the Hodgkin and Huxley papers	7
Undergraduates’ lived experience of project-/problem-based learning in introductory biology	7
Effects of voluntary attendance patterns on first-year medical students’ wellness and academic performance during COVID-19	7
Zooming past the coronavirus lockdown: online spirometry practical demonstration with student involvement in analysis by remote control	7
How to be a GREAT mentor	7
Student preference for course approach to pedagogically different methodologies in anatomy and physiology	7
Start with the end in mind: using student career aspirations and employment data to inform curriculum design for physiology undergraduate degree programs	6
Reducing cognitive load during video lectures in physiology with eye movement modeling and pauses: a randomized controlled study	6
Research experiences and online professional development increase teachers’ preparedness and use of effective STEM pedagogy	6
A brief history of the Physiology Majors Interest Group (P-MIG)	6

Survey of case study users during pandemic shift to remote instruction	6
Oaks to arteries: the Physiology Core Concept of flow down gradients supports transfer of student reasoning	6
Nutrition education on obesity and diabetes to medical students	6
Introducing reflective narrative for first-year medical students to promote empathy as an integral part of physiology curriculum	6
Unpacking and validating the “integration” core concept of physiology by an Australian team	6
Lectures and collaborative working improves the performance of medical students	6
Interactive retrieval practice in renal physiology improves performance on customized National Board of Medical Examiners examination of medical students	6
Appraisal of a novel pedagogical approach to demonstrating neuromuscular transmission to medical students	6
A new model for organizing curriculum alignment initiatives	6
Anatomical self-efficacy of undergraduate students improves during a fully online biology course with at-home dissections	5
A task-based learning strategy in preclinical medical education	5
The Nernst equation: using physico-chemical laws to steer novel experimental design	5
Virtual reality: a technology to promote active learning of physiology for students across multiple disciplines	5
Impacts of service learning-based social responsibility training on medical students	5
Critical skill of teaching: learning the cognitive and emotional states of our students during class	5
Relating human physiology content to COVID-19: a strategy to keep students in touch with physiology in times of social distance due to pandemic	5
Home-based physiology labs in the time of COVID-19 prove popular with medical students	5
An online flipped classroom approach improves the physiology score and subsequent course scores of the top-performing students	5
Behind teaching-learning strategies in physiology: perceptions of students and teachers of Brazilian medical courses	5
Report on the online course “Basic Concepts in Neurophysiology”: a course promoted during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine	5
A comparison of attitudes toward remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic between students attending a Chinese and an Australian campus	5
Remembering the canonical discoverers of the core components of the mammalian cardiac conduction system: Keith and Flack, Aschoff and Tawara, His, and Purkinje	5
Why is it so hard to lose fat? Because it has to get out through your nose! An exercise physiology laboratory on oxygen consumption, metabolism, and weight loss	5
The construction of high-magnification homemade lenses for a simple microscope: an easy “DIY” tool for biological and interdisciplinary education	5
Cumulative oral examinations in undergraduate human physiology: process, student perceptions, and outcomes	5
Updating anatomy and physiology lab delivery: shifting from a paper-based to an online lab instruction platform, just in time for a global pandemic	5
Advising physiology students: perceptions from the programs	5
A workshop on mitochondria for students to improve understanding of science and hypothesis forming	4
A student-centered seminar course as a complementary approach to a traditional journal club	4
The pulmonary physiology of exercise	4
An educational game for teaching osmolarity and tonicity: opinions of dental and medical students	4
Change the medium, change the message: creativity is key to battle misinformation	4
Unpacking the homeostasis core concept in physiology: an Australian perspective	4
An exploration of how gender, political affiliation, or religious identity is associated with comfort and perceptions of controversial topics in bioethics	4
Integrating active learning activities and metacognition into STEM writing courses	4
A foundational knowledge assessment tool to predict academic performance of medical students in first-year anatomy and physiology	4
Redesigning a face-to-face course to an asynchronous online format: a look at teaching pathophysiology with software that enhances student engagement	4
The mammalian nodal action potential: new data bring new perspectives	4
TESOT: a teaching modality targeting the learning obstacles in global medical education	4
Virtual immunology: an educational software to encourage antigen-antibody interaction learning	4
Voluntary participation in flipped classroom application sessions has a negligible effect on assessment outcomes in an accelerated pass-fail course	4
A team-based learning model using clinical vignettes in an advanced undergraduate pre-health professional physiology course facilitated by medical students	4
Interactive Metabolism, a simple and robust active learning tool that improves the biochemistry knowledge of undergraduate students	4
Should I write about mental health on my med school app? Examining medical school admissions committee members’ biases regarding mental health conditions	4
Using dramatizations to teach cell signaling enhances learning and improves students’ confidence in the concept	4
Impact of combination of short lecture and group discussion on the learning of physiology by nonmajor undergraduates	4
Outcomes of the UAMS summer undergraduate research program to increase diversity in research and health professions	4
An exploratory study of freshman attrition from an Appalachian physiology program	4
Illustrating clinical relevance in the preclerkship medical school curriculum through active learning with KardiaMobile electrocardiography	4
The implementation of active learning practices in a South African physiology class: a follow-up study	4