Medical Teachers' Attitudes Towards Educational Workshops
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Background: Training teachers through educational programs are necessmy 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 pe!formance and ability, and also participants' comments and suggestions were administered after the three educational workshops.Results: Results highlight effects 011 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.