title: Cultivating Lifelong Learning Skills During Graduate Medical Training.
abstract: Lifelong learning is referred to as learning practiced by the individual for the whole life, is flexible, and is accessible at all times. Medical Council of India has included lifelong learning as a competency in its new regulations for graduate medical training. Acquisition of metacognitive skills, self-directed learning, self-monitoring, and reflective attitude are the main attributes of lifelong learning; and all of these can be inculcated in the students by using appropriate instructional methodologies. It is time to deliberate upon the instructional designs to foster the lifelong learning skills and behaviors in medical graduates. In this communication, we aim to debrief the concept of lifelong learning, particularly in context with medical training and detailing the process that can be explicitly used to cultivate the attitude of lifelong learning in medical graduates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda, Punjab; Departments of Pharmacology and *Pediatrics, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab; and Department of Pediatrics, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; India. Correspondence to: Dr Tejinder Singh, Department of Pediatrics and Medical Education, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana 141 008, India. drtejinder22@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: Dinesh Kumar
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Badyal
authors.forename: Piyush
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Tejinder
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D000067489:Metacognition; D017145:Models, Educational