Learning Phases for a Medical Doctor

Abstract
A doctor undergoes different learning phases with different learning styles and equirements. In fact, a doctor’s life is a learning continuum. As premedical student, he is a teacher-dependent learner with a limited course content and prescribed textbooks. A teacher teaches the subject from the prescribed textbook. As a medical student, he is expected to acquire a large amount of knowledge through multiple resources and multiple recommended books. Student improves his listening skills, memorizing skills, writing skills, test taking skills and learns many psychomotor skills. During MBBS, teacher is acting as facilitator and student as self-learners.
After MBBS and as postgraduate student, he remains a self-learner and his self-directed learning upgrades him to a lifelong learner. During his practice as a
doctor, he learns through his experience and becomes an experiential learner throughout life.
Lifelong learning is not an option in healthcare, it’s required by healthcare workers to remain relevant and continue providing safe, effective patient care.
Key words: Teacher-dependent learner, selflearner, lifelong learner, experiential learner