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Foy JP, Serresse L, Decavèle M, Allaire M, Nathan N, Renaud MC, Sabourdin N, Souala-Chalet Y, Tamzali Y, Taytard J, Tran M, Cohen F, Bottemanne H, Monsel A. Clues for improvement of research in objective structured clinical examination. MEDICAL EDUCATION ONLINE 2024; 29:2370617. [PMID: 38934534 PMCID: PMC11212575 DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2370617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
Abstract
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.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jean Philippe Foy
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Maxillo-facial Surgery, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne Université, GRC 33 (RIC), INSERM UMRS 938, Centre de Recherche de Saint Antoine, Team Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, Paris, France
| | - Laure Serresse
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- INSERM, UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique; Service hexa-site Equipe Soins Palliatif, Accompagnement et Soins de Support, Hôpitaux Charles-Foix, Pitié-Salpêtrière, Rothschild, Tenon, Trousseau/La Roche-Guyon, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire APHP Sorbonne Université, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
| | - Maxens Decavèle
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- INSERM, UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Service de Médecine Intensive et Réanimation (Département R3S), Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire APHP-Sorbonne Université, site Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
| | - Manon Allaire
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Hepato-gastroenterology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
- Team Proliferation, Stress and Liver Physiopathology, INSERM UMRS 1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France
| | - Nadia Nathan
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Pediatric Pulmonology Department and Reference Center for Rare Lung Diseases RespiRare, Armand Trousseau Hospital, Paris, France
- Laboratory of Childhood Genetic Diseases, Armand Trousseau Hospital, Paris, France & Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMR_S933, Paris, France
| | | | - Nada Sabourdin
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, CHU Armand Trousseau, GRC 29, Sorbonne University, APHP, University of Paris: Pharmacologie et Evaluation des Thérapeutiques chez L’enfant et la Femme Enceinte, Paris, France
| | - Yasmine Souala-Chalet
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, DMU Origyne, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
| | - Yanis Tamzali
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Medical and Surgical Department of Kidney Transplantation, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, DMU Origyne, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
| | - Jessica Taytard
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Pediatric Pulmonology Department and Reference Center for Rare Lung Diseases RespiRare, Armand Trousseau Hospital, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
- Enruophysiologie Respiratoire expérimentale et clinique, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR_S1158, Paris, France
| | - Mélanie Tran
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, DMU Origyne, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
| | - Fleur Cohen
- Department of Internal Medicine, Institut E3M, CIMI-Paris, Faculty of Medicine, National Reference Centre of Systemic Lupus, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and Other Autoimmune Diseases, Sorbonne University, AP-HP, Pitié Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris, France
| | - Hugo Bottemanne
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Psychiatry, Pitie-Salpetrière Hospital, DMU Neuroscience, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute, UMR7225/UMR8011, CNRS/INSERM, Paris, France
| | - Antoine Monsel
- OSCE Research Group, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne University of Paris, Paris, France
- Unité mixte de recherche (UMR)-S 959, Immunology-Immunopathology-Immunotherapy (I3), Institut National de La Santé et de La Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Paris, France
- Biotherapy (CIC-BTi) and Inflammation-Immunopathology-Biotherapy Department (DHU i2B), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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