背景:近年来,医学教育中的数字化教学越来越普及。然而,据我们所知,迄今为止,还没有发表文献计量报告来分析这些重要的文献,以揭示当前的主题和趋势及其在引文计数中反映的影响。
目的:我们使用文献计量学方法来揭示和评估医学教育中数字教学研究的科学文献,展示反复出现的研究课题,富有成效的作者,研究机构,国家,和期刊。我们进一步旨在讨论一些特定的高引用作品报告的主题和发现。
方法:检索WebofScience电子数据库,找出有关医学教育数字化教学研究的相关论文。基本书目数据是通过数据库的“分析”和“创建引文报告”功能获得的。将完整的书目数据导出到VOSviewer进行进一步分析。生成可视化地图以显示出版物标题和摘要中提到的重复出现的作者关键字和术语。
结果:分析基于3978篇论文的数据。这些文献获得了全世界的贡献,其中最有生产力的国家是美国和英国。评论被引用得更多,但是开放获取与非开放获取论文之间的引用没有显着差异。一些主题被引用得更频繁,反映在虚拟现实等术语中,创新,审判,有效性,和解剖学。在医学教育的不同方面进行了数字化教学的实验,比如大体解剖学教育,组织学,补充医学,药物化学,和基本的生命支持。一些研究表明,数字化教学可以提高学习满意度,知识增益,甚至成本效益。对受训者的研究多于对本科生的研究。
结论:未来医学教育中的数字化教学有望蓬勃发展,特别是在这个COVID-19大流行的时代。
BACKGROUND: Digital teaching in medical education has grown in popularity in the recent years. However, to the best of our knowledge, no bibliometric report to date has been published that analyzes this important literature set to reveal prevailing topics and trends and their impacts reflected in citation counts.
OBJECTIVE: We used a bibliometric approach to unveil and evaluate the scientific literature on digital teaching research in medical education, demonstrating recurring research topics, productive authors, research organizations, countries, and journals. We further aimed to discuss some of the topics and findings reported by specific highly cited works.
METHODS: The Web of Science electronic database was searched to identify relevant papers on digital teaching research in medical education. Basic bibliographic data were obtained by the \"Analyze\" and \"Create Citation Report\" functions of the database. Complete bibliographic data were exported to VOSviewer for further analyses. Visualization maps were generated to display the recurring author keywords and terms mentioned in the titles and abstracts of the publications.
RESULTS: The analysis was based on data from 3978 papers that were identified. The literature received worldwide contributions with the most productive countries being the United States and United Kingdom. Reviews were significantly more cited, but the citations between open access vs non-open access papers did not significantly differ. Some themes were cited more often, reflected by terms such as virtual reality, innovation, trial, effectiveness, and anatomy. Different aspects in medical education were experimented for digital teaching, such as gross anatomy education, histology, complementary medicine, medicinal chemistry, and basic life support. Some studies have shown that digital teaching could increase learning satisfaction, knowledge gain, and even cost-effectiveness. More studies were conducted on trainees than on undergraduate students.
CONCLUSIONS: Digital teaching in medical education is expected to flourish in the future, especially during this era of COVID-19 pandemic.