title: Effect of Teachers Training Workshop Outcomes on Real Classroom Situations of Undergraduate Medical Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Faculty development by conducting regular training, workshops and research related to medical education has been a key feature to upgrade quality of medical education.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to explore responses of the health science teachers, students and peers after the workshop after providing training on student assessment tools and teaching-learning methods.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two teacher-training workshops were conducted to the faculty members of B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences from the departments of basic, clinical and allied sciences in Oct. 2010 and Jan. 2011. Qualitative questionnaire based study was conducted, and the questions were validated before the study by expert peer review process. The effect of the training workshop in real classroom outcomes was assessed incorporating student's feedback, evaluation by peers and the self-evaluation by the teacher trainees.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pre-test and post-test scores of the participating teachers, before and after the workshop were 62.53 and 71.17 respectively. Among the participants 90.3% teachers expressed enhanced in their role as a teacher for medical undergraduates after the workshop.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In present study, the faculty members showed accrued interest to participate in teacher's training workshops. The peer evaluation of teacher's performance in their real classroom situations were rated higher than evaluation by the students. Therefore, such training workshops will have a greater impact on the ability of teachers in effective teaching in real classroom situations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Nepal.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baral
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Nepal.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Nepal
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic and Clinical Physiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Nepal.
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Paudel
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Nepal.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lamsal
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*