Abstract
BackgroundIn recent decades, an increasing number of studies have focused on the clinical translational effect of simulation-based medical education (SBME). However, few scientific bibliometric studies have analyzed the research hotspots and publication trends. This study aimed to investigate research hotspots and future direction in the clinical translational outcome of SBME via bibliometrics.MethodRelevant publications on the clinical translational outcomes of SBME from 2011 to 2021 were identified and retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC). Software including VOSviewer (1.6.17) and CiteSpace (5.8R3) and a platform (bibliometric.com) were employed to conduct bibliographic and visualized analysis on the literature.ResultsA total of 1,178 publications were enrolled. An increasing number of publications were observed in the past decades from 48 in 2011 to 175 in 2021. The United States accounted for the largest number of publications (488, 41.4%) and citations (10,432); the University of Toronto and Northwestern University were the leading institutions. Academic Medicine was the most productive journal concerning this field. McGaghie W C and Konge L were the most influential authors in this area. The hot topic of the translational outcome of SBME was divided into 3 stages, laboratory phase, individual skill improvement, and patient outcome involving both technical skills and non-technical skills. Translational research of comprehensive impact and collateral outcomes could be obtained in the future.ConclusionFrom the overall trend of 10 years of research, we can see that the research is roughly divided into three phases, from laboratory stage, individual skill improvement to the patient outcomes, and comprehensive impacts such as skill retention and collateral effect as cost-effectiveness is a major trend of future research. More objective evaluation measurement should be designed to assess the diverse impact and further meta-analysis and randomized controlled trials are needed to provide more clinical evidence of SBME as translational science.
Highlights
Simulation-based medical education (SBME), first proposed in the 1970s [1], has made rapid progress in the past 50 years
We retrieved the data from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) to acquire publications concerned with the translational outcome of SBME since WOSCC was considered the optimal database which is most used in the existing bibliometric analysis
General Information In this study, 1,178 publications originating from the WoSCC were analyzed, aiming to explore the hotspots and development trends of the research on the translational outcomes of SBME from 2011 to 2021
Summary
Simulation-based medical education (SBME), first proposed in the 1970s [1], has made rapid progress in the past 50 years. SBME provides a visual specific scene for trainees to mimic clinical scenes, aiming to improve medical practice and patient outcomes directly [2, 3]. Simulated training based on deliberate practice was still in its initial stage [5,6,7] It was not until 2010 that McGaghie first proposed the research on SBME as a concept of translational science research [8], suggesting a bright new stage of SBME research: translation to the improvement of clinical skills and patient outcomes. An increasing number of studies have focused on the clinical translational effect of simulation-based medical education (SBME). This study aimed to investigate research hotspots and future direction in the clinical translational outcome of SBME via bibliometrics
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