Medical education technology workshop for residents: A step towards development of new faculty.

ABSTRACT

Teaching is an integral part of the medical profession. The current ‘teacher-centred’ medical teaching is running without proper training or knowledge of teaching methodology. This has led to many medical teachers not being properly trained in teaching methods. The Medical Council of India (MCI) has initiated faculty development programmes by introducing a basic course workshop on medical education technologies (MET) to provide basic knowledge, skills and attitudes to all faculty in medical colleges.1 However, this basic course workshop is presently limited to the existing permanent faculty. On the other hand, a lot of the teaching is actually done by resident doctors. So, the Medical Education Unit (MEU) of our institution decided to adapt the existing workshop for residents, run it as a pilot project and evaluate the pre- and post-workshop knowledge along with feedback with regard to the usefulness of the 2-day workshop as a tool for developing the residents knowledge on the teaching–learning process. The workshop was done with the approval of the institute. Data are expressed in percentages and analysed by appropriate statistical tests using INSTAT software (GraphPad software, Inc, La Zolla, CA, USA).