The document discusses principles of adult learning and medical education as a system. It defines adult learning and outlines the principles of adult learning, including that adults are problem-centric, prefer active and self-directed learning approaches, and draw on previous experience. It also describes learning styles and processes. Additionally, it frames medical education as a system with inputs, processes, outputs and feedback, and discusses the educator's role in optimizing the system to achieve desired outputs.

1. System’s Approach
Principle’s of Adult
Learning
Learning process
DR SATYAJIT SAHA
MBBS,MD, ACME
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY
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2. Part 1
SYSTEMS APPROACH
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3. At the end of the session
Define a system
Describe medical education from system perspective
Outline role of educator as system specialist
Define adult learning
Outline the principals of adult learning
Describe the different learning process
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4. What is SYSTEM
A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an
interconnecting network; a complex whole.
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5. Types of SYSTEM
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6. Parts of a System : INPUT
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7. Parts of a System : PROCESS
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8. Parts of a System : OUTPUT
IS IT THE REAL OUTPUT?
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9. What is the REAL OUTPUT?
UNDESIRED DESIRED
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10. What changes the UNDESIRED OUTPUT to
DESIRED OUTPUT?
FEEDBACK
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11. Medical Education as a SYSTEM: Identify Input, Process,
Output, Feedback
1. A competent IMG (a motivated learner)
2. New Entrant
3. Graduate Medical Education (GME)
4. TLA Methods
5. Teacher
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12. 6. College infrastructure
7. Curriculum & Syllabus
8. Community Statistics of Medical errors
9. Media-flush
10.University Result
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Medical Education as a SYSTEM: Identify Input, Process,
Output, Feedback

13. INPUT OUTPUT FEEDBACK
PROCESS
• New Entrant
• Teacher
• College
infrastructure
• Curriculum &
Syllabus
• A competent
IMG (a
motivated
learner)
• Graduate
Medical
Education
(GME)
• TLA Methods
• Community
Statistics of
Medical errors
• Media-flush
• University
Result
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Medical Education as a SYSTEM: Identify Input, Process,
Output, Feedback

14. Teacher’s Role in Medical Education
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15. GROUP ACTIVITY
1. Your medical college is applying for increasing the seats for PG in
Medicine. Map the components for the PG programme.
2. You are planning a field trip for your child and his friends. Applying
systems approach plan for successful outcome.
3. As the MEU coordinator of your institute, you had been asked to
plan for a successful rBCW on MET.
4. You have been just promoted to the post of MSVP. Plan the
components for E-learning on traumatology.
5. You had been asked to guide a medical student for his PG seat.
Apply systems approach in guiding him.
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16. Part 2
PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING
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17. What is Adult Learning?
Adult learning is defined as 'the entire range of formal, non-
formal and informal learning, activities which are
undertaken by adults after a break since leaving initial
education and training, which results in the acquisition of
new knowledge and skills.
Also known as Andragogy.
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18. Which one you prefer?
Active Learning
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19. Which statement is more applicable for you?
1. In rBCW there is a session on system’s approach. You
should be attentive in it. You will get a lot of information.
2. The system’s approach, if learnt properly, will help you to
solve problems by planning systematically and play the
various roles of being a parent, a departmental head, an
institutional head.
Problem Centric
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20. How to clean this room?
Previous Experience
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21. Do you know anyone of these?
Relevance
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22. How are you learning?
Self Directed Learning
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23. Part 3
LEARNERS, LEARNING STYLES & LEARNING PROCESSES
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24. Types of learners
WHAT HOW
WHY
DOES the
solution
make sense
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25. Transition of learners
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26. Different learning styles
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27. Different learning styles
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28. What is your learning style?
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29. Learning Process
Teaching: An interaction between teacher and student,
under the guidance of teacher, to bring out expected
changes in a students behaviour.
Learning: A process to make some relative or permanent
modifications of the way of thinking or feeling or overall
behaviour of the learner.
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30. PROBLEM SOLVE WITH PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
NOT/PARTIALLY SOLVED
INTEREST GENERATED TO SOLVE
GATHERS INFORMATION FROM
DIFFERENT RESOURCES
Progression of Adult Learning Process
SOLVED
SELF MOTIVATION
SELF DIRECTED LEARNING
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31. Thank You
PLS ASK YOUR QUESTIONS
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