medical teachers' attitudes towards educational workshops

Background: training teachers through educational programs are necessmy  for fulfilling health science teaching competencies. short-term workshop has variously reported as an influential training program.purpose: the purpose was to determine the effects of educational workshops on teaching pe1jormance of medical teachers.methods:  a  29-item  questionnaire  containing  demographic  information,  and  attitude,  changes  of  interest, educational pe!formance and ability, and also participants' comments and suggestions were administered after the three educational workshops.results: results highlight effects 011 changing the behavior mostly in increasing the teaching performance. they also indicate more improvement of younger faculty who had recently started their educational activities.conclusion: further evaluations are needed to determine all the aspects of teaching performance for having most effectual educational workshops.