Wohlauer Max V, George Brian, Lawrence Peter F, Pugh Carla M, Van Eaton Erik G, Darosa Debra
J Grad Med Educ. 2013 Jun;5(2):219-26. doi: 10.4300/JGME-05-02-39.
Exploring the trends in surgical education research offers insight into concerns, developments, and questions researchers are exploring that are relevant to teaching and learning in surgical specialties.
We conducted a review of the surgical education literature published between 2002 and 2012. The purpose was 2-fold: to provide an overview of the most frequently cited articles in the field of surgical education during the last decade and to describe the study designs and themes featured in these articles.
Articles were identified through Web of Science by using "surgical education" and "English language" as search terms. Using a feature in Web of Science, we tracked the number of citations of any publication. Of the 800 articles produced by the initial search, we initially selected 23 articles with 45 or more citations, and ultimately chose the 20 articles that were most frequently cited for our analysis.
Analysis of the most frequently cited articles published in US journals between the years 2002-2012 identified 7 research themes and presented them in order of frequency with which they appear: use of simulation, issues in student/resident assessment, specialty choice, patient safety, team training, clinical competence assessment, and teaching the clinical sciences, with surgical simulation being the central theme. Researchers primarily used descriptive methods.
Popular themes in surgical education research illuminate the information needs of surgical educators as well as topics of high interest to the surgical community.
探究外科教育研究的趋势有助于深入了解研究人员正在探索的与外科专业教学和学习相关的关注点、发展情况及问题。
我们对2002年至2012年间发表的外科教育文献进行了综述。目的有两个：一是概述过去十年外科教育领域被引用频率最高的文章，二是描述这些文章的研究设计和主题。
通过科学网以“外科教育”和“英语”作为检索词来识别文章。利用科学网的一项功能，我们追踪了任何出版物的被引用次数。在初步检索得到的800篇文章中，我们最初选择了23篇被引用45次或以上的文章，最终选取了20篇被引用频率最高的文章进行分析。
对2002年至2012年间在美国期刊上发表的被引用频率最高的文章进行分析，确定了7个研究主题，并按照出现频率排序呈现如下：模拟的应用、学生/住院医师评估问题、专业选择、患者安全、团队培训、临床能力评估以及临床科学教学，其中外科模拟是核心主题。研究人员主要采用描述性方法。
外科教育研究中的热门主题揭示了外科教育工作者的信息需求以及外科界高度关注的话题。
