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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Gamification of health professions education: a systematic review	253
Dismantling the master’s house: new ways of knowing for equity and social justice in health professions education	69
A history of assessment in medical education	53
The need for health AI ethics in medical school education	51
Transgender health content in medical education: a theory-guided systematic review of current training practices and implementation barriers & facilitators	46
Entrustable professional activities versus competencies and skills: Exploring why different concepts are often conflated	46
The role of data science and machine learning in Health Professions Education: practical applications, theoretical contributions, and epistemic beliefs	36
The ubiquity of uncertainty: a scoping review on how undergraduate health professions’ students engage with uncertainty	35
Is health professional education making the most of the idea of ‘students as partners’? Insights from a qualitative research synthesis	31
Healthcare systems and the sciences of health professional education	28
The implementation of interprofessional education: a scoping review	28
Systematic review of noncognitive factors influence on health professions students’ academic performance	27
How cognitive psychology changed the face of medical education research	25
Re-envisioning paradigms of education: towards awareness, alignment, and pluralism	22
Leveraging knowledge translation and implementation science in the pursuit of evidence informed health professions education	21
The effect of self-practicing systematic clinical observations in a multiplayer, immersive, interactive virtual reality application versus physical equipment: a randomized controlled trial	21
Exploring why we learn from productive failure: insights from the cognitive and learning sciences	20
Study smart – impact of a learning strategy training on students’ study behavior and academic performance	20
Fairness in human judgement in assessment: a hermeneutic literature review and conceptual framework	20
Intersectionality: a means for centering power and oppression in research	18
Specific mindfulness traits protect against negative effects of trait anxiety on medical student wellbeing during high-pressure periods	17
Is reflection like soap? a critical narrative umbrella review of approaches to reflection in medical education research	17
Shaping our worldviews: a conversation about and of theory	17
More than surgical tools: a systematic review of robots as didactic tools for the education of professionals in health sciences	16
Artificial scholarship: LLMs in health professions education research	16

A participant perspective on collaborative reflection: video-stimulated interviews show what residents value and why	16
Building evidence-based practice competencies among rehabilitation students: a qualitative exploration of faculty and preceptors’ perspectives	16
Creative leaps in theory: the might of abduction	16
It does not have to be either or! Assessing competence in medicine should be a continuum between an analytic and a holistic approach	15
Japanese medical learners’ achievement emotions: Accounting for culture in translating Western medical educational theories and instruments into an asian context	15
Professional identity research in the health professions—a scoping review	15
Exploring professional identity in rehabilitation professions: a scoping review	15
Massive open online course adoption amongst newly graduated health care providers	15
Professional identity formation: linking meaning to well-being	15
Conducting qualitative research through time: how might theory be useful in longitudinal qualitative research?	15
Feasibility assurance: a review of automatic item generation in medical assessment	14
A phenomenological study of new doctors’ transition to practice, utilising participant-voiced poetry	14
How do students offer value to organisations through work integrated learning? A qualitative study using Social Exchange Theory	14
Emotional intelligence in undergraduate medical students: a scoping review	14
“We know what they’re struggling with”: student peer mentors’ embodied perceptions of teaching in a health professional education mentorship program	13
The learning experiences of dyslexic medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological study	13
Interprofessional and multiprofessional approaches in quality improvement education	13
New ways of seeing: supplementing existing competency framework development guidelines with systems thinking	13
Exploring complexities in the reform of assessment practice: a critical realist perspective	13
Passing the microphone: broadening perspectives by amplifying underrepresented voices	12
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	12
Tensions in describing competency-based medical education: a study of Canadian key opinion leaders	12
Freedom from discrimination or freedom to discriminate? Discursive tensions within discrimination policies in medical education	12
A theoretical systematic review of patient involvement in health and social care education	12
A philosophical history of programmatic assessment: tracing shifting configurations	11
Where we’ve come from, where we might go	11
The relationship between school burnout, sense of school belonging and academic achievement in preclinical medical students	11
Thirty years of teaching evidence-based medicine: have we been getting it all wrong?	11
A scoping review of clinical reasoning research with Asian healthcare professionals	11
Toward ‘seeing’ critically: a Bayesian analysis of the impacts of a critical pedagogy	10
Embodied teacher identity: a qualitative study on ‘practical sense’ as a basic pedagogical condition in times of Covid-19	10
Qualitative exploration of the medical learner’s journey into correctional health care at an academic medical center and its implications for medical education	10
Educating for adaptive expertise: case examples along the medical education continuum	10
Drawing on experience: exploring the pedagogical possibilities of using rich pictures in health professions education	10
Professionals’ adaptive expertise and adaptive performance in educational and workplace settings: an overview of reviews	10
Improving medical residents’ self-assessment of their diagnostic accuracy: does feedback help?	10
“You can’t always get what you want…”: economic thinking, constrained optimization and health professions education	9
Nursing students’ conceptions of competence and the learning processes that support the development of competence: a phenomenographic study	9
Combining adaptive expertise and (critically) reflective practice to support the development of knowledge, skill, and society	9
Learning to recognise what good practice looks like: how general practice trainees develop evaluative judgement	9
The experiences of foundation doctors with dyspraxia: a phenomenological study	9
Are raters influenced by prior information about a learner? A review of assimilation and contrast effects in assessment	9
Pass/fail decisions and standards: the impact of differential examiner stringency on OSCE outcomes	9
Disruption in the space–time continuum: why digital ethnography matters	9
The impact of emotionally challenging situations on medical students’ professional identity formation	9
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	8
Pathways to performance in undergraduate medical students: role of conscientiousness and the perceived educational environment	8
The effects of mindfulness-based interventions in medical students: a systematic review	8
Natural frequency trees improve diagnostic efficiency in Bayesian reasoning	8
Inside-out: normalising practice-based IPE	8

Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	8
How organizational culture influences holistic review: a qualitative multiple case study	8
Making sense of adaptive expertise for frontline clinical educators: a scoping review of definitions and strategies	8
Beyond empathy decline: Do the barriers to compassion change across medical training?	8
Advancing quality culture in health professions education: experiences and perspectives of educational leaders	7
Developing experts in health professions education research: knowledge politics and adaptive expertise	7
Beyond the tensions within transfer theories: implications for adaptive expertise in the health professions	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
Understandings and practices: Towards socially responsive curricula for the health professions	7
Assessment of factual recall and higher-order cognitive domains in an open-book medical school examination	7
Getting real in interprofessional clinical placements: patient-centeredness in student teams’ collaborative learning	7
“The sins of our forefathers”: reimagining research in health professions education	7
Promotion of knowledge transfer and retention in year 2 medical students using an online training exercise	7
The efficacy of mindful practice in improving diagnosis in healthcare: a systematic review and evidence synthesis	7
Strategies for resolving relational dilemmas while developing therapists' professional identity	6
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
An ethnographic investigation of medical students’ cultural competence development in clinical placements	6
Contributing to the hidden curriculum: exploring the role of residents and newly graduated physicians	6
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	6
Considering vocational training as selection criterion for medical students: evidence for predictive validity	6
Multi-level longitudinal learning curve regression models integrated with item difficulty metrics for deliberate practice of visual diagnosis: groundwork for adaptive learning	6
Re-thinking “I”dentity in medical education: genealogy and the possibilities of being and becoming	6
Exploring the relationship between emotion and cognitive load types during patient handovers	6
“Come and share your story and make everyone cry”: complicating service user educator storytelling in mental health professional education	6
Deconstructing the professional identity formation of basic science teachers in medical education	6