Self-regulated learning: why is it important compared to traditional learning in medical education?

Abstract

Self-regulated learning has played an increasingly significant role in medical education over the last one to two decades. Medical educators have endeavored to ensure that the students are equipped to face the challenges of continued growth of medical knowledge. Here we enquire and reflect on various aspects of self-regulated learning including its strengths and weaknesses. We investigate how it could be incorporated with traditional teaching to bring the best out of the students and what students think about it.

Keywords:

• self-regulated learning
• self-instructing
• traditional teaching and medical education

Disclosure

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.