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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Extending growth curves: a trajectory monitoring approach to identification and interventions in struggling medical student learners	62
Ambiguity in robotic surgical instruction: lessons from remote and in-person simulation	59
Historicity and the impossible present	55
This was the first …	31
Disaster scholarship	29
Who should proof my paper?	28
Intersectionality: a means for centering power and oppression in research	24
Learning to work and working to learn: a phenomenographic perspective on the transition from student to doctor	23
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	21
Identifying competencies in advanced healthcare practice: an umbrella review	21
More than surgical tools: a systematic review of robots as didactic tools for the education of professionals in health sciences	20
Deconstructing the professional identity formation of basic science teachers in medical education	20
Failing professional practice placements in allied health: What do we understand about the student experience? A scoping review	19
“Important but risky”: attitudes of global thought leaders towards cost and value research in health professions education	19
“Juggle the different hats we wear”: enacted strategies for negotiating boundaries in overlapping relationships	18
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	18
Exploring cognitive apprenticeship and teaching practices in pharmacy education	17
The integrated curriculum and student empathy: a longitudinal multi-cohort analysis	17
Learning deliberate reflection in medical diagnosis: does learning-by-teaching help?	17
Beyond the tensions within transfer theories: implications for adaptive expertise in the health professions	17
Health occupations salary outcomes: intersections of student race, gender, and first-generation status	16
Improving medical residents’ self-assessment of their diagnostic accuracy: does feedback help?	16
Comparing the effectiveness of two diagnostic approaches for the interpretation of oral radiographic lesions by dental students	16
An exploration of “real time” assessments as a means to better understand preceptors’ judgments of student performance	16
The impact of emotionally challenging situations on medical students’ professional identity formation	16

Cognitive diagnostic modelling in healthcare professions education: an eye-opener	16
Assessment of medical student burnout: toward an implicit measure to address current issues	15
Freedom from discrimination or freedom to discriminate? Discursive tensions within discrimination policies in medical education	15
Contributing to the hidden curriculum: exploring the role of residents and newly graduated physicians	15
Differences in empathy toward patients between medical and nonmedical students: an fMRI study	14
Correction to: The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	14
Drawing on experience: exploring the pedagogical possibilities of using rich pictures in health professions education	14
Teaching critical reflection in health professions education with transformative-vygotskian praxis	13
A scoping review of frameworks utilized in the design and evaluation of courses in health professional programs to address the role of historical and ongoing colonialism in the health outcomes of Indi	13
The power of rotation schedules on the career selection decisions of medical students	13
Towards anti-racist futures: a scoping review exploring educational interventions that address systemic racism in post graduate medical education	13
Stress and conflict from tacit culture forges professional identity in newly graduated independent physicians	13
The interpretation-use argument– the essential ingredient for high quality assessment design and validation	13
Exploring the use of metacognitive monitoring cues following a diagram completion intervention	13
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	12
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	12
Conducting qualitative research through time: how might theory be useful in longitudinal qualitative research?	12
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	12
Building evidence-based practice competencies among rehabilitation students: a qualitative exploration of faculty and preceptors’ perspectives	12
Factors influencing clinician-educators’ assessment practice in varied Southern contexts: a health behaviour theory perspective	12
More, better feedback please: are learning analytics dashboards (LAD) the solution to a wicked problem?	11
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	11
Emotional intelligence in undergraduate medical students: a scoping review	11
Creative leaps in theory: the might of abduction	11
Professional identity research in the health professions—a scoping review	10
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	10
Assessment of factual recall and higher-order cognitive domains in an open-book medical school examination	10
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	10
Learning in and across communities of practice: health professions education students’ learning from boundary crossing	10
How organizational culture influences holistic review: a qualitative multiple case study	10
A scoping review of clinical reasoning research with Asian healthcare professionals	10
Should I do a synthesis (i.e. literature review)?	9
No cow on the ice: a tail of word games	9
“I felt like a little kind of jolt of energy in my chest”: embodiment in learning in continuing professional development for general practitioners	9
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	8
Data science in health professions education: promises and challenges	8
Is ‘data science’ science?	8
An experimental comparison of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on a high-stakes test for medical students	7
To a fault	7
New ways of seeing: supplementing existing competency framework development guidelines with systems thinking	7
Moral injury and the hidden curriculum in medical school: comparing the experiences of students underrepresented in medicine (URMs) and non-URMs	7
Using Q methodology in health sciences education to study subjectivity	7
Impact of a university teaching of integrative medicine on the social representations of undergraduate medical students	7
My paper has been rejected without review. What do I do now?	7
Trust, but verify	7
Artificial scholarship: LLMs in health professions education research	7
It takes a village: an ethnographic study on how undergraduate medical students use each other to learn clinical reasoning in the workplace	6
Do you see what I see? Feeding interprofessional workplace learning using a diversity of theories	6
“It’s making me think outside the box at times”: a qualitative study of dynamic capabilities in surgical training	6
Combining adaptive expertise and (critically) reflective practice to support the development of knowledge, skill, and society	6

Teaching nursing skills without detailed protocols: effects of an implicit learning strategy in nursing education	6
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	6
“Teaching capital”– a sociological analysis of medical educator portfolios for promotion	6
Using clinical cases with diagnostic errors and malpractice claims: impact on anxiety and diagnostic performance in GP clinical reasoning education	6
How does a move towards a coaching approach impact the delivery of written feedback in undergraduate clinical education?	6
“I never wanted to burn any bridges”: discerning between pushing too hard and not enough in trainees’ acts of professional resistance	6
The learning experiences of dyslexic medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological study	6
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	5
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	5
“A whole other competence story”: exploring faculty perspectives on the process of workplace-based assessment of entrustable professional activities	5
Re-examining the integration of routine and adaptive expertise: there is no such thing as routine from a motor control perspective	5
Leveraging the health equity implementation framework to foster an equity focus in medical education	5
Student-faculty interactions within a physiotherapy curriculum in South Africa	5
Negotiating humanity: an ethnography of cadaver-based simulation	5
Enabling and inhibiting doctors transitions: introducing the social identity resource and belonginess model (SIRB)	5
Unlocking knowledge: a meta-analysis assessing the efficacy of educational escape rooms in health sciences education	5
Feasibility and reliability of the pandemic-adapted online-onsite hybrid graduation OSCE in Japan	5
Productive struggle and failing safely: implications for developing adaptive expertise in communication	5
How does training format and clinical education model impact fidelity and confidence in a speech-language pathology rotation?	5
Medical students’ motivations for participating in an elective focused on social inequalities and health disparities	5
Rethinking professional identity formation amidst protests and social upheaval: a journey in Africa	5
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	5
The effects of gaze-display feedback on medical students’ self-monitoring and learning in radiology	5
Correction: Making space to learn about teaching: expanding teaching horizons through postgraduate education	5
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	5
Threshold concepts in health professions education research: a scoping review	5
The influence of occupational therapy students’ preferred language on academic and clinical performance in a Canadian university program	5
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	5
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	5
Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	5