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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning shared decision making in undergraduate medical education: a realist review	118
“It really puts me in a bind”, professionalism dilemmas reported by Chinese residents	78
Scholarly practice in healthcare professions: findings from a scoping review	71
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	50
Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study	46
Translating programmatic assessment for learning (PAL) across clerkship models: implementing PAL in block and longitudinal structures	45
Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators’ in developing learner uncertainty tolerance	42
Reproducibility and replicability in health professions education research	35
Comparing the effectiveness of two diagnostic approaches for the interpretation of oral radiographic lesions by dental students	32
Not ready in the ways that count– a qualitative exploration of junior doctor’s perceived preparedness for practice using Legitimation Code Theory	32
A thick description of love’s contours for health professions education	31
The effect of the attitude towards risk/ambiguity on examination grades: cross-sectional study in a Portuguese medical school	31
Trust, but verify	29
Power to the people? A co-produced critical review of service user involvement in mental health professions education	28
Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review	28
The development of degree-oriented and vocational education in clinical pharmacy in China	26
Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction	23
Can you really infer that? An exploratory study using the reasoning task typology to analyze clinic notes	23
Empathy across cultures – one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy	22
A suggestive approach for assessing item quality, usability and validity of Automatic Item Generation	22
A state-of-the-art review of speaking up in healthcare	21
“I felt like a little kind of jolt of energy in my chest”: embodiment in learning in continuing professional development for general practitioners	21
A longitudinal study of interprofessional education experiences among health professional graduates	21
Transferability in three dimensions (3D): applicability, theoretical engagement, and resonance	20
How can authors address reflexivity in quantitative studies?	20

Go back to the original sources please!	20
The first step in visual diagnosis: a study of novices developing the ability to distinguish normal from abnormal cases	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	18
Can all roads lead to competency? School levels effects in Licensing examinations scores	18
Peer overmarking and insufficient diagnosticity: the impact of the rating method for peer assessment	18
What if we consider research teams as teams?	18
From constructive to critical and everywhere in between: education leaders’ decision-making related to harsh feedback from learners about their teachers	18
Supervisory knowing in practice across medical specialities	17
Accounting for agency in structural competency	17
Giving effective feedback on writing	17
Unveiling the link between self-regulated learning and academic success: a longitudinal study on Chinese medical students	17
Sociotechnical imaginaries in academic medicine strategic planning: a document analysis	16
Balancing closure and discovery: adaptive expertise in the workplace	16
Implicit bias instruction across disciplines related to the social determinants of health: a scoping review	16
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	16
Developing an educational blueprint for surgical handover curricula: a critical review of the evidence	15
The effects of job characteristics on physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning	15
Designing a course for healthcare professionals: examining readiness for adopting emerging technologies into education and practice	15
The line we draw: shifting epistemic regimes of standard setting in health professions education	15
Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study	14
Tailoring support following summative assessments: a latent profile analysis of student outcomes across five medical specialities	14
Ecological interchangeability: supporting team adaptive expertise in moments of disruption	14
Teacher, Gatekeeper, or Team Member: supervisor positioning in programmatic assessment	14
Diagnosing virtual patients: the interplay between knowledge and diagnostic activities	13
Inconsistencies in rater-based assessments mainly affect borderline candidates: but using simple heuristics might improve pass-fail decisions	13
Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review	13
Expectations for PhDs in health professions education: an international EPA-framed, modified Delphi study	13
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education	12
Correction: Which learning experiences support an interprofessional identity? A scoping review	12
How can research supervision relationships affect dissemination?	12
The effects of procedural and conceptual knowledge on visual learning	12
Educating physicians to meet societal needs?: a genealogy of Canadian medical education	12
Effects of (de)motivating supervision styles on junior doctors’ intrinsic motivation through basic psychological need frustration and satisfaction: an experimental vignette study	12
Discoveries or doubts: a qualitative study of the transformative potential of portfolio meetings	11
Questions and Quandaries: How to respond to reviewer comments	11
Inclusion in an exclusive world? A two-country comparison of widening participation in medicine	11
Undergraduate paramedic students and interpersonal communication development: a scoping review	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	11
Human rights engagement, stigma and attitudes towards mental health among Colombian social work and medical students	11
Correction to: Locating agency with Judith Butler’s theory of performativity	11
A surgical habitus: surgeons’ perspectives on learner mistreatment in surgery	10
Implicit versus explicit first impressions in performance-based assessment: will raters overcome their first impressions when learner performance changes?	10
Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience	10
Learning in a contextually complex rural clinical placement	10
A critical discourse analysis of the problem-oriented medical record	10
Expert consensus on the attributes and competencies required for rural and remote junior physicians to work effectively in isolated indonesian communities	10
Seeing to learn and learning to see: histology teaching between new technologies, old paradigms and natural cyborgs	10
Exploring cognitive apprenticeship and teaching practices in pharmacy education	10
Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners	10

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