Learning Communities IMM Unit 2: Lifelong Learning

School of Medicine

While all of us truly desire to be life-long learners so that we can continue to provide high-quality care to our patients over the entirety of our careers, in truth, practicing physicians have a hard time actually incorporating this type of learning into their daily lives and medical practice. Too often we may find ourselves settling for “routine” expertise (or simply remembering what we’ve done before) in our field of practice rather than striving for “adaptive” expertise that can equip us to tackle and solve novel challenges. We will spend time in this session understanding the differences between routine and adaptive expertise – and explore why this is so important for the health of our patients and our own personal career satisfaction. We’ll honestly discuss how hard it is to engage in lifelong learning and share best-practices that we’ve seen in our colleagues for how to make it work in a busy profession.