**SMH, Faculty Development Grand Rounds, June 7th, 2005, 12:00pm to 1:00pm.

Location: 30 Bond Street, Queen Street Entrance Floor, Classroom Paul Marshall Auditorium (Directly behine the Second Cup)

Title: Lifelong Learning: Ready, Willing & Able?

Presenter: Brian Hodges, Wilson Centre for Research & Education

WHEN: Tuesday June 7 12-1PM
WHERE: SMH—30 Bond Street Paul Marshall Auditorium Queen Street Entrance Directly behind the Second Cup

Video Conference Sites: SWCHSC (Both Sites) / UHN (Toronto General Hospital)

For more information please contact Dawn Carpenter
Phone: 416.864.6060 Ext.6546
Fax: 416.864.5322
Email: carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca

Learning Objectives
• Recognize the pleasures, but also the challenges
inherent in pursuing lifelong learning
• Discuss how reflection-on-practice can and must
contribute to lifelong learning, but also how difficult it is
• Think about personal commitment to lifelong learning
Lifelong learning is a corner stone of maintenance of
competence for health professionals. And while there are
many benefits of continuing to learn throughout one’s life,
there are also many barriers. Among these are: lack of
development of skills of self-directed learning during
undergraduate and postgraduate training; the difficulties
inherent in undertaking a self assessment; and competing
demands of practice settings that make it difficult to
prioritize learning. These rounds explore the paradox of
self-directed, lifelong learning – we know it is essential to
our professional autonomy and continuing competence, yet
most of us have no idea how to do it or how to teach it.

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