Learning from other professions

In the last few years, medical education has become evidence-based and structured. It has incorporated principles of learning used in professions other than medicine. Safety, simulators and checklists have been learned from aviation industry. Handover protocols are borrowed from oil industry. Legal profession has emphasized the importance of critical thinking. Even the modern war colleges have developed learning strategies like war games and mock scenarios which can be assimilated in our postgraduate medical education. Modern-day medical education is looking for new horizons and innovations. Many professions other than traditional medical education may provide the necessary guidelines for modernisation.