OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Advances in Health Sciences Education is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	76
Comparing the effectiveness of two diagnostic approaches for the interpretation of oral radiographic lesions by dental students	75
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	71
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	43
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	39
Cognitive diagnostic modelling in healthcare professions education: an eye-opener	36
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	36
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	29
Emotional intelligence in undergraduate medical students: a scoping review	29
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	28
Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction	25
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	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
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	24
Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review	24
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	24
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	20
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	20
Trust, but verify	20
Transferability in three dimensions (3D): applicability, theoretical engagement, and resonance	19
How does a move towards a coaching approach impact the delivery of written feedback in undergraduate clinical education?	19
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	18
Mastery versus invention learning: impacts on future learning of simulated procedural skills	18
Can all roads lead to competency? School levels effects in Licensing examinations scores	18
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	17

Go back to the original sources please!	17
Using theory-informed data science methods to trace the quality of dental student reflections over time	17
Accounting for agency in structural competency	16
What if we consider research teams as teams?	16
Peer overmarking and insufficient diagnosticity: the impact of the rating method for peer assessment	16
From constructive to critical and everywhere in between: education leaders’ decision-making related to harsh feedback from learners about their teachers	16
Unveiling the link between self-regulated learning and academic success: a longitudinal study on Chinese medical students	16
Sociotechnical imaginaries in academic medicine strategic planning: a document analysis	15
Balancing closure and discovery: adaptive expertise in the workplace	15
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	14
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	14
Giving effective feedback on writing	14
Supervisory knowing in practice across medical specialities	14
Developing an educational blueprint for surgical handover curricula: a critical review of the evidence	13
Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study	13
Diagnosing virtual patients: the interplay between knowledge and diagnostic activities	12
Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review	12
Tailoring support following summative assessments: a latent profile analysis of student outcomes across five medical specialities	12
Teacher, Gatekeeper, or Team Member: supervisor positioning in programmatic assessment	12
What role does basic research have in an applied field?	12
The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	12
Ecological interchangeability: supporting team adaptive expertise in moments of disruption	12
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education	11
Inconsistencies in rater-based assessments mainly affect borderline candidates: but using simple heuristics might improve pass-fail decisions	11
The effects of procedural and conceptual knowledge on visual learning	11
Expectations for PhDs in health professions education: an international EPA-framed, modified Delphi study	11
The influence of a digital clinical reasoning test on medical student learning behavior during clinical clerkships	11
Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective	10
Discoveries or doubts: a qualitative study of the transformative potential of portfolio meetings	10
Correction: Which learning experiences support an interprofessional identity? A scoping review	10
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	10
Effects of (de)motivating supervision styles on junior doctors’ intrinsic motivation through basic psychological need frustration and satisfaction: an experimental vignette study	10
Human rights engagement, stigma and attitudes towards mental health among Colombian social work and medical students	10
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	10
How can research supervision relationships affect dissemination?	10
A surgical habitus: surgeons’ perspectives on learner mistreatment in surgery	9
Inclusion in an exclusive world? A two-country comparison of widening participation in medicine	9
Seeing to learn and learning to see: histology teaching between new technologies, old paradigms and natural cyborgs	9
Learning in a contextually complex rural clinical placement	9
Comparison of two different mindfulness interventions among health care students in Finland: a randomised controlled trial	9
Exploring cognitive apprenticeship and teaching practices in pharmacy education	9
Assessment of factual recall and higher-order cognitive domains in an open-book medical school examination	9
Extending growth curves: a trajectory monitoring approach to identification and interventions in struggling medical student learners	9
Is ‘data science’ science?	8
Not too little, not too much: supervisor perceptions of work-readiness of speech-language pathology graduates	8
Can AI grade like a professor? comparing artificial intelligence and faculty scoring of medical student short-answer clinical reasoning exams	8
Disruption in the space–time continuum: why digital ethnography matters	8
Data science in health professions education: promises and challenges	8
Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	8
Individual differences and self-regulatory factors are credible determinants of physiotherapy student performance on clinical placement: Insights from a measurement burst design study	8

Feasibility and reliability of the pandemic-adapted online-onsite hybrid graduation OSCE in Japan	8
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	8
“A whole other competence story”: exploring faculty perspectives on the process of workplace-based assessment of entrustable professional activities	8
Teaching nursing skills without detailed protocols: effects of an implicit learning strategy in nursing education	8
Identifying the experience of geographical narcissism during medical education and training	7
Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners	7
Assessing the validity of test scores using response process data from an eye-tracking study: a new approach	7
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	7
An experimental comparison of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on a high-stakes test for medical students	7
Relationships between preadmission variables and academic outcomes for postbaccalaureate students in medical school	7
Beyond mentorship: the promise and perils of sponsorship in health professions education research	7
Medical knowledge decline: the role of active usage	7
How the knowledge shared using social media is taken up into health professions education practice: A qualitative descriptive study	7
How to establish a new medical school? A scoping review of the key considerations	6
On the use and abuse of metaphors in assessment	6
Massive open online course adoption amongst newly graduated health care providers	6
Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data	6
“Come and share your story and make everyone cry”: complicating service user educator storytelling in mental health professional education	6
The liminal space of metacognitive reflection: the art of contradistinction (a response to define or not define)	6
The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse health practitioners in dominant culture practice: a scoping review	6
Learning clinical skills: an ecological perspective	6
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	6
Transforming self-experienced vulnerability into professional strength: a dialogical narrative analysis of medical students’ reflective writing	6
Exploring professional identity in rehabilitation professions: a scoping review	5
Beyond empathy decline: Do the barriers to compassion change across medical training?	5
An evaluation of programmatic assessment across health professions education using contribution analysis	5
The effect of self-reflection on the outcomes of online clinical skills training: a comparative study	5
Creating synergies among education/research, practice, and policy environments to build capacity for the scholar role in occupational therapy and physiotherapy in the Canadian context	5
Group concept mapping for health professions education scholarship	5
Self-reflection on competence: metacognitive process and barriers of self-assessment in psychologists	5
The anatomy of ontological ambiguity: exploring moral distress in cadaveric dissection	5
Modeling the social determinants of resilience in health professions students: impact on psychological adjustment	5
How progress evaluations are used in postgraduate education with longitudinal supervisor-trainee relationships: a mixed method study	5
Professional identity formation: linking meaning to well-being	5
Understandings and practices: Towards socially responsive curricula for the health professions	5
Thirty years of teaching evidence-based medicine: have we been getting it all wrong?	5
Comparing the stress response using heart rate variability during real and simulated crises: a pilot study	5
Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research	5
Relinquishing control? Supervisor co-regulation may disrupt students’ self-regulated learning during simulation-based training	5
Peer observation of teaching: multiple-site case study guided by diffusion of innovations theory	5
Clinical educators can supervise students without increased stress: a study of interacting factors using insights from complexity theory	5
Team science in interdisciplinary health professions education research: a multi-institutional case study	5
The impact of prior performance information on subsequent assessment: is there evidence of retaliation in an anonymous multisource assessment system?	5
Social support and academic procrastination in health professions students: the serial mediating effect of intrinsic learning motivation and academic self-efficacy	5
Inequity is woven into the fabric: a discourse analysis of assessment in pediatric residency training	5
Expanding the advocacy lens: using photo-elicitation to capture patients’ and physicians’ perspectives about health advocacy	5
Opening the black box of school-wide student wellbeing programmes: a critical narrative review informed by activity theory	5
Simulated learning interventions to improve communication and practice with deaf and hard of hearing patients: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis	5
“The sins of our forefathers”: reimagining research in health professions education	5
Profiling medical specialties and informing aspiring physicians: a data-driven approach	5
A theoretical systematic review of patient involvement in health and social care education	5
Three doors to the house of perspective-taking and self-reflection: Experiences of guided narrator exploration for healthcare education	5