For Doctors, Learning Never Stops. and Why It Shouldn’t

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For doctors, learning never stops. And why it
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• That doctors have one of the difficult paths
  towards their degrees is already known and having
  spent a better part of your 20s studying and
  qualifying to be a licensed practicing doctor is
  no mean feat. However, in healthcare, as also in
  life, learning never stops. Not even when they
  have passed out of med schools spending 5-6 years
  studying hard. Learning for a doctor never stops.
  It is one field where ignorance is not bliss.
• Why is lifelong learning important for a doctor,
  you may ask, especially when they have given
  their 200 in their student years and passed with
  the required degree? Heres why.
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• The world is constantly changing and evolving
• This world, more so medically, has seen
  tremendous change in the past few decades. There
  are new diseases coming to the fore. There are
  new discoveries happening. Someone is inventing a
  new drug for life-threatening diseases. There is
  new research on deadly viruses. And so on.
• You see what doctors have learned in college also
  needs an upgrade simply because theory and
  practical scenarios are quite different. They
  need to learn, unlearn and learn again,
  procedures, methods, medicines, knowledge all
  of it needs to keep evolving too to stay relevant
  in the field.
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• Endless opportunities
• Staying updated in the field also means opening
  yourself to better growth opportunities. Staying
  updated also makes one competitive enough in a
  market thats crowded. From academia to research
  or high-up in the healthcare sector, there are
  countless possibilities when one keeps a track of
  how fast things are changing in their area of
  specialization and how quickly they can imbibe
  those changes.
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• Applying their own learnings as a patient
• Over the years as doctors see other doctors in
  their capacity as a patient, those insights also
  help bring change in the processes, including
  talking to a patient and engaging with him
  through the journey. A jury may be still out on
  this one though but the learnings from being a
  patient are very useful when applied to their own
  practice. This gives them first-hand experience
  from being on the other side and whats the other
  side is expecting from them. Empathy and openness
  in communication are the key takeaways for them
  as a patient.
• There is a lot of merit in continuing education
  for doctors as it helps in improving their
  patient relations, performance equips them with
  new and latest skills and helps to prevent
  burnout. Keep watching this space for more in
  this series.
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