OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Health Sciences Education is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Gamification of health professions education: a systematic review	224
Dismantling the master’s house: new ways of knowing for equity and social justice in health professions education	63
A history of assessment in medical education	50
The need for health AI ethics in medical school education	47
Entrustable professional activities versus competencies and skills: Exploring why different concepts are often conflated	42
Transgender health content in medical education: a theory-guided systematic review of current training practices and implementation barriers & facilitators	40
The role of data science and machine learning in Health Professions Education: practical applications, theoretical contributions, and epistemic beliefs	33
The ubiquity of uncertainty: a scoping review on how undergraduate health professions’ students engage with uncertainty	31
Is health professional education making the most of the idea of ‘students as partners’? Insights from a qualitative research synthesis	29
Healthcare systems and the sciences of health professional education	25
Systematic review of noncognitive factors influence on health professions students’ academic performance	25
How cognitive psychology changed the face of medical education research	23
The implementation of interprofessional education: a scoping review	23
Exploring why we learn from productive failure: insights from the cognitive and learning sciences	20
Leveraging knowledge translation and implementation science in the pursuit of evidence informed health professions education	20
Re-envisioning paradigms of education: towards awareness, alignment, and pluralism	19
Fairness in human judgement in assessment: a hermeneutic literature review and conceptual framework	19
A participant perspective on collaborative reflection: video-stimulated interviews show what residents value and why	17
The effect of self-practicing systematic clinical observations in a multiplayer, immersive, interactive virtual reality application versus physical equipment: a randomized controlled trial	17
Shaping our worldviews: a conversation about and of theory	16
Study smart – impact of a learning strategy training on students’ study behavior and academic performance	16
Specific mindfulness traits protect against negative effects of trait anxiety on medical student wellbeing during high-pressure periods	16
Creative leaps in theory: the might of abduction	15
It does not have to be either or! Assessing competence in medicine should be a continuum between an analytic and a holistic approach	15
Is reflection like soap? a critical narrative umbrella review of approaches to reflection in medical education research	15

Professional identity formation: linking meaning to well-being	14
Intersectionality: a means for centering power and oppression in research	14
Massive open online course adoption amongst newly graduated health care providers	14
Clinical supervision in general practice training: the interweaving of supervisor, trainee and patient entrustment with clinical oversight, patient safety and trainee learning	14
Building evidence-based practice competencies among rehabilitation students: a qualitative exploration of faculty and preceptors’ perspectives	14
“It was great to break down the walls between patient and provider”: liminality in a co-produced advisory course for psychiatry residents	13
Japanese medical learners’ achievement emotions: Accounting for culture in translating Western medical educational theories and instruments into an asian context	13
More than surgical tools: a systematic review of robots as didactic tools for the education of professionals in health sciences	13
Exploring professional identity in rehabilitation professions: a scoping review	13
Feasibility assurance: a review of automatic item generation in medical assessment	13
How do students offer value to organisations through work integrated learning? A qualitative study using Social Exchange Theory	13
Exploring complexities in the reform of assessment practice: a critical realist perspective	13
Interprofessional and multiprofessional approaches in quality improvement education	13
A phenomenological study of new doctors’ transition to practice, utilising participant-voiced poetry	12
New ways of seeing: supplementing existing competency framework development guidelines with systems thinking	12
The learning experiences of dyslexic medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological study	12
Emotional intelligence in undergraduate medical students: a scoping review	12
A theoretical systematic review of patient involvement in health and social care education	12
Artificial scholarship: LLMs in health professions education research	12
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	11
Freedom from discrimination or freedom to discriminate? Discursive tensions within discrimination policies in medical education	11
A philosophical history of programmatic assessment: tracing shifting configurations	11
A scoping review of clinical reasoning research with Asian healthcare professionals	11
Tensions in describing competency-based medical education: a study of Canadian key opinion leaders	11
“We know what they’re struggling with”: student peer mentors’ embodied perceptions of teaching in a health professional education mentorship program	11
Where we’ve come from, where we might go	10
Physician-scientist or basic scientist? Exploring the nature of clinicians’ research engagement	10
Drawing on experience: exploring the pedagogical possibilities of using rich pictures in health professions education	10
Thirty years of teaching evidence-based medicine: have we been getting it all wrong?	10
Conducting qualitative research through time: how might theory be useful in longitudinal qualitative research?	10
Unraveling the medical residency selection game	10
Passing the microphone: broadening perspectives by amplifying underrepresented voices	10
The relationship between school burnout, sense of school belonging and academic achievement in preclinical medical students	10
Professional identity research in the health professions—a scoping review	10
Combining adaptive expertise and (critically) reflective practice to support the development of knowledge, skill, and society	9
Embodied teacher identity: a qualitative study on ‘practical sense’ as a basic pedagogical condition in times of Covid-19	9
Qualitative exploration of the medical learner’s journey into correctional health care at an academic medical center and its implications for medical education	9
Toward ‘seeing’ critically: a Bayesian analysis of the impacts of a critical pedagogy	9
The rich potential for education research in family medicine and general practice	9
Learning to recognise what good practice looks like: how general practice trainees develop evaluative judgement	9
Inside-out: normalising practice-based IPE	8
Natural frequency trees improve diagnostic efficiency in Bayesian reasoning	8
How organizational culture influences holistic review: a qualitative multiple case study	8
Educating for adaptive expertise: case examples along the medical education continuum	8
Are raters influenced by prior information about a learner? A review of assimilation and contrast effects in assessment	8
“You can’t always get what you want…”: economic thinking, constrained optimization and health professions education	8
Disruption in the space–time continuum: why digital ethnography matters	8
Improving medical residents’ self-assessment of their diagnostic accuracy: does feedback help?	8
“The sins of our forefathers”: reimagining research in health professions education	7
Developing experts in health professions education research: knowledge politics and adaptive expertise	7

Professionals’ adaptive expertise and adaptive performance in educational and workplace settings: an overview of reviews	7
Pathways to performance in undergraduate medical students: role of conscientiousness and the perceived educational environment	7
Advancing quality culture in health professions education: experiences and perspectives of educational leaders	7
Promotion of knowledge transfer and retention in year 2 medical students using an online training exercise	7
Mixed methods, crimes, and misdemeanours	7
Redressing injustices: how women students enact agency in undergraduate medical education	7
The hidden labours of designing the Objective Structured Clinical Examination: a Practice Theory study	7
Nursing students’ conceptions of competence and the learning processes that support the development of competence: a phenomenographic study	7
Do different response formats affect how test takers approach a clinical reasoning task? An experimental study on antecedents of diagnostic accuracy using a constructed response and a selected respons	6
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	6
Deconstructing the professional identity formation of basic science teachers in medical education	6
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	6
Uncovering the ecology of clinical education: a dramaturgical study of informal learning in clinical teams	6
The efficacy of mindful practice in improving diagnosis in healthcare: a systematic review and evidence synthesis	6
Strategies for resolving relational dilemmas while developing therapists' professional identity	6
Pass/fail decisions and standards: the impact of differential examiner stringency on OSCE outcomes	6
Multi-level longitudinal learning curve regression models integrated with item difficulty metrics for deliberate practice of visual diagnosis: groundwork for adaptive learning	6
Assessment of factual recall and higher-order cognitive domains in an open-book medical school examination	6
Making sense of adaptive expertise for frontline clinical educators: a scoping review of definitions and strategies	6
Exploring the relationship between emotion and cognitive load types during patient handovers	6