Role of Medical Education in Cultivating Lifelong Learning Skills for Future Doctors

Medical knowledge, skills, and social requirements for patient care are quickly changing, thus, doctors are anticipated to be life-long learners to provide effective care for the patients. This paper addresses instructional issues how to prepare medical students to be self-directed learners and how to improve medical school and postgraduate training curricula. Now the big question is self-directed learning (SDL) an agent in cultivating lifelong learning skills for medical students as claimed by educational experts? This will be the focus of my critical reflection on lifelong learning.