Hotspots in research on the measurement of medical students’ clinical competence from 2012-2016 based on co-word analysis

Background This study aimed to identify hotspots in research on clinical competence measurements from 2012 to 2016. Methods The authors retrieved literature published between 2012 and 2016 from PubMed using selected medical subject headings (MeSH) terms. They used BibExcel software to generate high-...

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Published in:BMC medical education Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 162 - 6
Main Authors: Chang, Xing, Zhou, Xin, Luo, Linzhi, Yang, Chengjia, Pan, Hui, Zhang, Shuyang
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London BioMed Central 12.09.2017
BioMed Central Ltd
Springer Nature B.V
BMC
Subjects:
Analysis
Assessment and evaluation of admissions
Bibliometrics
Clinical competence
Clinical Competence - standards
Cluster Analysis
Co-word analysis
Cognitive Structures
Computer Simulation
Correlation
Curricula
Data Analysis
Education
Educational Measurement - methods
Factor Analysis
Geographic Location
Health education
Health Personnel
Hotspots
Humans
Indexing
Keywords
knowledge
Literature reviews
Measurement
Measurement of clinical competence
Medical Education
Medical Evaluation
Medical examiners
Medical schools
Medical Students
Multivariate Analysis
Physical Examinations
Pilot Projects
Problem Based Learning
Program Evaluation
Research Article
Researchers
Science
Scientometrics
Selection Criteria
Skills
skills and attitudes
Students
Students, Medical
Studies
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Training
Trends
Measurement of clinical competence
Co-word analysis
Medical students
Hotspots
ISSN:1472-6920, 1472-6920
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Summary:Background This study aimed to identify hotspots in research on clinical competence measurements from 2012 to 2016. Methods The authors retrieved literature published between 2012 and 2016 from PubMed using selected medical subject headings (MeSH) terms. They used BibExcel software to generate high-frequency MeSH terms and identified hotspots by co-word analysis and cluster analysis. Results The authors searched 588 related articles and identified 31 high-frequency MeSH terms. In addition, they obtained 6 groups of high-frequency MeSH terms that reflected the domain hotspots. Conclusions This study identified 6 hotspots of domain research, including studies on influencing factors and perception evaluation, improving and developing measurement tools, feedback measurement, measurement approaches based on computer simulation, the measurement of specific students in different learning phases, and the measurement of students’ communication ability. All of these research topics could provide useful information for educators and researchers to continually conduct in-depth studies.
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ISSN:1472-6920
1472-6920
DOI:10.1186/s12909-017-0999-8