Teaching and Learning in Health Professionals

Running head: TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Teaching and learning in health professionals
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Executive summary
Learning helps a person to act more professionally. It is said that education helps in
eradicating illiteracy in a similar manner learning helps in growth of the person from within.
It widens the vision of the person and helps in ethical decision making. Constructive learning
supported by Bloom’s taxonomy helps in better interpretation of the various domains of
learning in professional sphere. All the three domains namely cognitive, affective and
psychomotor domain has been discussed in this paper. After elaborate study it has been
concluded that he social learning theory is the best alternative of learning for any health
professional and it boosts the morale of the learner from all spheres of learning.

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Table of contents
Cognitive domain.......................................................................................................................3
Affective domain........................................................................................................................5
Psychomotor domain..................................................................................................................6
Bibliography...............................................................................................................................9

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The process of learning manifests the level of perfection already in a man and transforms a
man into a professional. It is a never-ending process starting right from birth and continues
throughout one’s life. Domains may vary but the main course of the process of learning
remains intact. Constructive learning includes three main domains including cognitive,
affective and psychomotor (Kong,2015). Learning domains are incomplete without
mentioning the works of Benjamin Bloom popularly known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. But with
time the theory gets a modified version upgraded by Anderson and Krathwohl. Learning
becomes more implacable if it is systematic and clear. The main domains with their
supportive objectives are discussed below.
The main three domains of learning could be subdivided into two main objectives namely
learner centred or subjective and discrete or objective.
Cognitive domain
Cognitive complexity has six major levels namely knowledge, comprehension,
application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The higher the level the more complex the
level of mental operation required (Kong,2015). Until and unless the lower level is attained
the higher levels cannot be achieved. A discrete understanding of the cognitive domain
starting from the lower basic level of knowledge to the most complex level of evaluation is
provided.
Knowledge basically is meant for remembering or recalling information that includes
facts, terminology, rules and problem-solving strategies. The action verbs describing learning
outcomes of this domain includes define, describe, name outline, identify, label, recall, recite,
list, match, select and state (Adams,2014). One sample question for health professionals