title: Attitude of teachers towards teaching.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Teaching is an art and the quality of teaching depends on the love, dedication and devotion of the teacher towards the subject of the knowledge. The quality of any teaching programme cannot rise above the quality of its teachers. In medical colleges it is the teacher who is responsible for influencing a student's learning of the subject.
  
  
  METHODS
  We assessed the attitude of 31 teachers working at MGIMS. Twenty one of them were of the rank of Reader and above and had more than five years teaching experience. Ten were of the rank of lecturers with three years of teaching experience. The assessment was done by a likert type scale containing 20 items on various aspects of teaching. All the participants were given the scale and requested to mark the agreement or otherwise on a scale i.e. strongly disagree, disagree, cannot say, disagree, strongly agree.
  The mean score was 3.808, which indicates a positive attitude. There was not much difference in attitude of teachers in different group. Thus indicating that our study group has predominantly positive attitude for most of the items. This positive attitude helps the teachers to be role model for the future generation of students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, MGIMS, Sevagram.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhalla
authors.forename: U N
authors.initials: UN
authors.lastname: Jajoo
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Kalantri
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013663:Teaching