OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Health Sciences Education is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning shared decision making in undergraduate medical education: a realist review	91
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	77
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	59
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	52
Translating programmatic assessment for learning (PAL) across clerkship models: implementing PAL in block and longitudinal structures	50
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	47
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	42
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	35
Seeing the invisible: extracurricular learning processes and learning outcome as experienced by student volunteers accompanying persons in a socially vulnerable situation to healthcare appointments—an	34
Professional identity formation in health professions education: conceptual foundations and a pragmatic approach	34
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	34
Trust, but verify	28
Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review	27
The development of degree-oriented and vocational education in clinical pharmacy in China	27
Can you really infer that? An exploratory study using the reasoning task typology to analyze clinic notes	24
Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction	24
“I felt like a little kind of jolt of energy in my chest”: embodiment in learning in continuing professional development for general practitioners	24
A thick description of love’s contours for health professions education	22
“I have to split myself”: emotional labour and cleft habitus among dental academics in Malaysia	22
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	22
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	22
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	21
Transferability in three dimensions (3D): applicability, theoretical engagement, and resonance	21
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	21
Unveiling the link between self-regulated learning and academic success: a longitudinal study on Chinese medical students	20

Go back to the original sources please!	20
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	19
From constructive to critical and everywhere in between: education leaders’ decision-making related to harsh feedback from learners about their teachers	19
What if we consider research teams as teams?	19
Accounting for agency in structural competency	19
A scoping review of the questionnaires used for the assessment of the perception of undergraduate students of the learning environment in healthcare professions education programs	19
Can all roads lead to competency? School levels effects in Licensing examinations scores	19
The first step in visual diagnosis: a study of novices developing the ability to distinguish normal from abnormal cases	19
How can authors address reflexivity in quantitative studies?	19
Sociotechnical imaginaries in academic medicine strategic planning: a document analysis	18
Balancing closure and discovery: adaptive expertise in the workplace	17
The line we draw: shifting epistemic regimes of standard setting in health professions education	17
Game design elements of serious games in the education of medical and healthcare professions: a mixed-methods systematic review of underlying theories and teaching effectiveness	17
Giving effective feedback on writing	16
Supervisory knowing in practice across medical specialities	15
Educators’ experiences of marking reflective writing: using collaborative learning to improve practice	15
The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	15
Historicizing health professions education research: history as a strategic analytic resource	15
Teacher, Gatekeeper, or Team Member: supervisor positioning in programmatic assessment	14
Ecological interchangeability: supporting team adaptive expertise in moments of disruption	14
Developing an educational blueprint for surgical handover curricula: a critical review of the evidence	14
Tailoring support following summative assessments: a latent profile analysis of student outcomes across five medical specialities	14
Designing a course for healthcare professionals: examining readiness for adopting emerging technologies into education and practice	13
Effects of (de)motivating supervision styles on junior doctors’ intrinsic motivation through basic psychological need frustration and satisfaction: an experimental vignette study	13
Inconsistencies in rater-based assessments mainly affect borderline candidates: but using simple heuristics might improve pass-fail decisions	13
Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study	13
Correction: Which learning experiences support an interprofessional identity? A scoping review	13
Diagnosing virtual patients: the interplay between knowledge and diagnostic activities	13
Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review	13
How can research supervision relationships affect dissemination?	13
Educating physicians to meet societal needs?: a genealogy of Canadian medical education	12
The effects of procedural and conceptual knowledge on visual learning	12
Discoveries or doubts: a qualitative study of the transformative potential of portfolio meetings	12
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education	12
The creative doctor: exploring the role of comics-enhanced education in medical professionalism	12
The influence of a digital clinical reasoning test on medical student learning behavior during clinical clerkships	12
Human rights engagement, stigma and attitudes towards mental health among Colombian social work and medical students	12
Seeing to learn and learning to see: histology teaching between new technologies, old paradigms and natural cyborgs	11
Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective	11
A critical discourse analysis of the problem-oriented medical record	11
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	11
Correction to: Locating agency with Judith Butler’s theory of performativity	11
Learning in a contextually complex rural clinical placement	11
Inclusion in an exclusive world? A two-country comparison of widening participation in medicine	10
Is ‘data science’ science?	10
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	10
A surgical habitus: surgeons’ perspectives on learner mistreatment in surgery	10
Data science in health professions education: promises and challenges	10
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	10
Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	10

“Had I been seen as an asset, I would have become one”: key factors influencing how dietetics students engage with feedback processes in clinical placement	10
Identifying the experience of geographical narcissism during medical education and training	10
Correction to: Who determines clinical placement capacity? Understanding the historical, social, and political context using Foucault’s critical discourse analysis	9
Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners	9
Medical knowledge decline: the role of active usage	9
Individual differences and self-regulatory factors are credible determinants of physiotherapy student performance on clinical placement: Insights from a measurement burst design study	9
Teaching nursing skills without detailed protocols: effects of an implicit learning strategy in nursing education	9
Well-being and stress in health sciences undergraduates’ workplace learning	9
An experimental comparison of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on a high-stakes test for medical students	9
Feasibility and reliability of the pandemic-adapted online-onsite hybrid graduation OSCE in Japan	9
Beyond mentorship: the promise and perils of sponsorship in health professions education research	9
Can AI grade like a professor? comparing artificial intelligence and faculty scoring of medical student short-answer clinical reasoning exams	9
“A whole other competence story”: exploring faculty perspectives on the process of workplace-based assessment of entrustable professional activities	9
The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse health practitioners in dominant culture practice: a scoping review	8
How to establish a new medical school? A scoping review of the key considerations	8
How the knowledge shared using social media is taken up into health professions education practice: A qualitative descriptive study	8
On the use and abuse of metaphors in assessment	8
Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data	8
The liminal space of metacognitive reflection: the art of contradistinction (a response to define or not define)	8
Fostering interprofessional identity formation to support interprofessional collaboration – Identifying guidelines for educational design	8
“Come and share your story and make everyone cry”: complicating service user educator storytelling in mental health professional education	8
Does need strength influence the impact of supervision styles on junior doctors’ affective states?	8
Transforming self-experienced vulnerability into professional strength: a dialogical narrative analysis of medical students’ reflective writing	8
Commentary on Barradell and Bell (2021)—applying a critical lens to the role of students as partners in health professions education: challenges, risks, and potential	8
At the precipice of assessing adaptive expertise?	8
Unpacking educational approaches for social accountability in health professions education: a scoping review	8
Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research	7
Understandings and practices: Towards socially responsive curricula for the health professions	7
Towards a praxis of metacognitive reflection in medical education: a framework of inquiry, adaptive action, and pattern logic	7
Professional identity formation: linking meaning to well-being	7
Curriculum development as a governance process: insights from a new PharmD program	7
Virtual reality as a pedagogical approach for critical reflection: a case study on learning about homelessness in health professions education	7
Opening the black box of school-wide student wellbeing programmes: a critical narrative review informed by activity theory	7
Social support and academic procrastination in health professions students: the serial mediating effect of intrinsic learning motivation and academic self-efficacy	7
Expanding the advocacy lens: using photo-elicitation to capture patients’ and physicians’ perspectives about health advocacy	7
An evaluation of programmatic assessment across health professions education using contribution analysis	7
The effect of self-reflection on the outcomes of online clinical skills training: a comparative study	7
Inequity is woven into the fabric: a discourse analysis of assessment in pediatric residency training	7