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ReviewBMC medical education2017

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

Xing Chang, Xin Zhou, Linzhi Luo, Chengjia Yang, Hui Pan, Shuyang Zhang

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Review in BMC medical education, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Biochar-related studies from 1999 to 2018: a bibliometrics-based review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020
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  4. Bibliometric Analysis of Algal-Bacterial Symbiosis in Wastewater Treatment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Xing ChangDepartment of Education, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No.1 Shuaifuyuan Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2968-4333
Xin ZhouDepartment of Education, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No.1 Shuaifuyuan Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China.
Linzhi LuoDepartment of Education, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No.1 Shuaifuyuan Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China.
Chengjia YangProduct Management Department, China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, Beijing, 100032, China.
Hui PanDepartment of Education, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No.1 Shuaifuyuan Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China. panhui20111111@163.com.
Shuyang ZhangDepartment of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No.1 Shuaifuyuan Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China. shuyangzhang103@163.com.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis study aimed to identify hotspots in research on clinical competence measurements from 2012 to 2016.

methodsThe 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.

resultsThe 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.

conclusionsThis 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.

Indexed as

Students, MedicalClinical CompetenceCluster AnalysisComputer SimulationEducational MeasurementHumansCo-word analysisHotspotsMeasurement of clinical competenceMedical students

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PMID28899380
PMCPMC5596946

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