The study of human learning is constantly changing and developing facilitated using learning theories like cognitive-behaviourism, constructivism and humanism which are the main guide for both academic and clinical training including paediatrics. Current advances in medical education in postgraduate medical training suggests that trainees, educational and clinical supervisors can hugely benefit from robust understanding of learning theory and its right application in clinical practice in outpatient clinics, inpatient ward rounds, clinical skills teaching and multidisciplinary meetings. Consultants and senior medical staff involved in teaching and training of postgraduate doctors in paediatrics can review these theories and their approaches to targeted learning goals to increase skill set to cope with present demand and to produces sound and skilled paediatricians. The aim of this narrative review is to provide paediatricians clinical and educational supervisors opportunities to be theoretically grounded in the dynamics of selected learning theories leveraging on their right application to achieve the learning goals of paediatric specialty training and inform excellent medical scholarship. The combination of these theories in the raising of next generation of paediatrician is a viable pathway in postgraduate medical training.
Key words: Learning theory, learning; paediatrics, medical education
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