title: A faculty development program evaluation: from needs assessment to long-term effects, of the teaching skills improvement program.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We evaluated whether the faculty development program, the Teaching Skills Improvement Program, met medical educators' needs at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey. In a 1997 needs assessment survey, large proportions of 178 medical educators assessed their knowledge of educational issues and teaching skills as good or excellent. Nonetheless, 86% of the respondents stated they would like to participate in a future training program focused on the content indicated in the survey.
  In 1998, 83 faculty members took part in the program and expressed a high degree of satisfaction with its content and organization, as well as the course trainers' teaching. Most of the participants got high scores on a test of knowledge related to the course content and performed proficiently in a microteaching session.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Six months to a year later, large proportions of the participants reported using many of the training techniques in their teaching program.
authors.affiliation: Public Health Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. sevkato@hacettepe.edu
authors.forename: Sevkat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bahar-Ozvaris
authors.forename: Dilek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aslan
authors.forename: Nalan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sahin-Hodoglugil
authors.forename: Iskender
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sayek
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015397:Program Evaluation; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014421:Turkey