Notes for Primary Care Teachers: Self-Directed Learning: What it is, and How to Promote it.

General practitioners (GPs) should develop sound learning habits to ensure successful independent, life-long learning throughout their professional life. However, GPs with their busy schedules usually face numerous daily demands leaving considerably little time for effective self-study.1 Trainees need to realise that learning is not merely to pass examinations but to continually keep up-to-date with the ever-increasing knowledge and developments in medicine to remain a competent medical practitioner.