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Why do medical teachers attend six-day course „The Art of Medical Education“?

Background: Croatian Associatiation for Medical Education (CAME), in collaboration with the Department for Educational Technology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, are organizing the postgraduate course entitled „The Art of Medical Education“ since 2002. The main aims of the program are to encourage and enable medical teachers early in their career to learn and put into practice contemporary approaches in medical education and motivate them to improve quality of their work. The aim of this study was to investigate factors affecting their attending the organized six-day training program on medical education.. Summary of work: The survey was conducted among participants-teachers at School of Medicine, Zagreb, who attended the course from 2002-2010 (N=224). Method used was questionnaire sent to all previous participants. The study showed that the most important motives for their coming were to learn something new, renovation of existing knowledge and need to complete the course for future academic promotion. Less important motives were associated with promotion in assistant professor, referral by Chair and least desire for renew of existing knowledge. Take-home message: External and internal motives are extremely important factors influencing the effectiveness of organized training programme for teachers on quality of their work.

Teachers training in medical education; motivation for attendance; Croatia; CAME

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