The necessity for healthcare professionals to regulate their learning is widely acknowledged due to positive associations with highquality healthcare and lifelong learning. 1,2 For example, safeguarding high standards in healthcare requires physicians to monitor relevant developments in continuously and rapidly changing healthcare practices and to align appropriate learning opportunities with personal learning needs and learning goals. 3 Hence, physicians have to engage in self-regulated learning (SRL) to develop and maintain competence. 4 Generally, self-regulated learners are considered to be "meta-cognitively, motivationally, and behaviourally active participants in their own learning". 5 In pursuit of and committed to their goals, they design and implement strategies aligned with these goals, monitor progression towards these goals, followed by reflection and -when applicable -formulation of new learning goals. 6,7 Because of its relevance for education and practice, and as SRL skills can be learnt and therefore taught, health professions curricula build in elements to support and facilitate the development of students' SRL. [8][9][10] For example, many curricula implement portfolio systems that stimulate or require students to reflect on progress and formulate personal learning plans, 11 or include problem-based learning principles to stimulate students' self-directedness. 12,13