ReviewFrontiers in medicine2025
A review of microcredentials in health professions continuing professional development.
Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- An NCI Micro-credentialing Model for Onboarding and Training Clinical Research Professionals in a Lean Fiscal Environment.Therapeutic innovation & regulatory science · 2026Article
- Transforming Health Care AI Education Through Micro-learning: A Novel Partnership Model for Nursing Workforce Development.Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN · 2026Article
- Factors Related to Diabetes Educator Training and Credentialling to Meet the Needs of Rural and Remote Australians.The Australian journal of rural health · 2026Article
- A Quality Improvement Approach to Sustainable Student-Led Leadership Development in Undergraduate Medical Education.Cureus · 2026Article
- Bridging competency gaps for newly graduated nurses through micro-credentials: an interpretative descriptive qualitative study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Self-assessed digital competence of nurse educators-A cross-sectional study in four countries.Digital healthArticle
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
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Abstract
Microcredentials are an emergent tool to support knowledge and skill development. Despite their growing popularity in medical education - and higher education more broadly - it is unclear how these strategies have been utilized to support continuing professional development in the health professions. A rapid systematic review was conducted to explore the current relevant literature due to the timely and evolving nature of microcredentials. PubMed, Embase, and ERIC were used for the article search. Of the 290 relevant articles found from the searches, a total of 11 articles were included after abstract and full-text screenings. All articles used in this review were published within the past 10 years. Microcredentials were used across various professions, covered a wide range of topics, and employed various teaching strategies. The definitions used for key terms like microcredential were inconsistent across articles.
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