Abstract:

Metacognition can be defined as knowing the cognition. It is a very important cognitive process that is also beneficial in becoming expert physicians and lifelong learners. Medical students can enhance their performance by assessing and monitoring themselves and can learn from their own and as well as others’ experiences as learners. This will need self-knowledge, and knowing and controlling their cognitive processes. In this context, progress on educating sentient individuals started with emerging of metacognition and studies about this concept. Many researchers showed that metacognitive capabilities can be enhanced by training. Informing the students about metacognition and life-long learning, helping the educators in realizing the importance of metacognition and using educational methods for improving metacognitive skills can help the students learn how to learn and increase metacognitive capabilities. During curriculum development of medical schools, medical educators should focus on learning to learn and high order thinking procedures beside the content and this will bring development of metacognitive skills and enhance the awareness.Metacogniton can be defined as knowing the cognition. It is a very important cognitive process that is also beneficial in becoming expert physicians and lifelong learners. Medical students can enhance their performance by assessing and monitoring themselves and can learn from their own and as well as others’ experiences as learners. This will need self-knowledge, and knowing and controlling their cognitive processes. In this context, progress on educating sentient individuals started with emerging of metacognition and studies about this concept. Many researchers showed that metacognitive capabilities can be enhanced by training. Informing the students about metacognition and life-long learning, helping the educators in realizing the importance of metacognition and using educational methods for improving metacognitive skills can help the students learn how to learn and increase metacognitive capabilities. During curriculum development of medical schools, medical educators should focus on learning to learn and high order thinking procedures beside the content and this will bring development of metacognitive skills and enhance the awareness.

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