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Clues for improvement of research in objective structured clinical examination

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While objective clinical structured examination (OSCE) is a worldwide recognized and effective method to assess clinical skills of undergraduate medical students, the latest Ottawa conference on the assessment of competences raised vigorous debates regarding the future and innovations of OSCE. This study aimed to provide a comprehensive view of the global research activity on OSCE over the past decades and to identify clues for its improvement. We performed a bibliometric and scientometric analysis of OSCE papers published until March 2024. We included a description of the overall scientific productivity, as well as an unsupervised analysis of the main topics and the international scientific collaborations. A total of 3,224 items were identified from the Scopus database. There was a sudden spike in publications, especially related to virtual/remote OSCE, from 2020 to 2024. We identified leading journals and countries in terms of number of publications and citations. A co-occurrence term network identified three main clusters corresponding to different topics of research in OSCE. Two connected clusters related to OSCE performance and reliability, and a third cluster on student’s experience, mental health (anxiety), and perception with few connections to the two previous clusters. Finally, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada were identified as leading countries in terms of scientific publications and collaborations in an international scientific network involving other European countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy) as well as Saudi Arabia and Australia, and revealed the lack of important collaboration with Asian countries. Various avenues for improving OSCE research have been identified: i) developing remote OSCE with comparative studies between live and remote OSCE and issuing international recommendations for sharing remote OSCE between universities and countries; ii) fostering international collaborative studies with the support of key collaborating countries; iii) investigating the relationships between student performance and anxiety.
Bulto, Tadesse Weyuma (57218921685); Chebo, Abdella Kosa (57211658384); Regassa, Hailu Fufa (59527811700); Werku, Birhanu Chalchisa (57793656500); Kloos, Helmut (26643043000)
Scientific mapping of the nexus between entrepreneurial orientation and environmental sustainability: bibliometric analysis
2024
10.3389/fsoc.2024.1461840
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85216004215&doi=10.3389%2ffsoc.2024.1461840&partnerID=40&md5=eb475c40557b00c5f84aa42ba2e3e68d
Department of Management, Kotebe University of Education, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Department of Business Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Sociology, Ambo University, Oromia, Ethiopia; Faculty of Resource Management and Economics, Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia; Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
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