Medical teachers' attitudes towards educational workshops

• Main Authors: Masoud MousaviNasab, Shahla Ghazanfari, AliReza Tavakoli-Kazeroni, Reza ArsalanZadeh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services 2002-04-01
• Series: Journal of Medical Education
• Subjects: EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS; MEDICAL EDUCATION
• Online Access: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/jme/article/view/940

Background Training teachers through educational programs are necessary for fulfilling health science teaching competencies. Short-term workshop has variously reported as an influential training program. Purpose The purpose was to determine the effects of educational workshops on teaching pe1jormance of medical teachers. Methods A 29-item questionnaire containing demographic information, and attitude, changes of interest, educational performance and ability, and also participants' comments and suggestions were administered after the three educational workshops. Results Results highlight effects on changing the behavior mostly in increasing the teaching performance. They also indicate more improvement of younger faculty who had recently started their educational activities. Conclusion Further evaluations are needed to determine all the aspects of teaching performance for having most effectual educational workshops. Key words EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, MEDICAL EDUCATION