Learning needs assessment should not be restrictive

Learning needs assessment is a crucial stage in the educational process but could turn education into an instrumental and narrow process rather than a creative and professional one. Grant (p 156) emphasises that different learning methods suit different doctors and that doctors already use a wide range of formal and informal ways of identifying their own learning needs as part of ordinary practice. These should be the starting point in designing formalised educational systems for professional improvement.


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Learning needs assessment: assessing the need
Janet Grant
BMJ 2002 324: 156-159. [Full Text] [PDF]

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