SELF-REGULATED LEARNING: A FAD OR A NECESSITY?

Self-Regulated Learning

Abstract

It has been ascertained that better patient care is directly linked to lifelong learning by physicians, which requires personal monitoring in the form of Self-Regulated learning (SRL). As a result, Continuing Medical Education (CME) and quality of healthcare go head in hand with each other. However, effective CME is not possible without SRL. On the other hand, evidence concerning medical schools and postgraduate institutions successfully helping students become self-regulated learners, is scarce. This is despite presence of outcomes such as: ‘lifelong learning’ at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels across the world, indicating absence of any structured effort to train learners in SRL1,2