medical teachers' attitudes towards educational workshops

background: training teachers through educational programs are necessary 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 performance of medical teachers. methods: a 29-item questionnaire containing demographic information, and attitude, changes of interest, educational performance and ability, and also participants' comments and suggestions were administered after the three educational workshops. results: results highlight effects on 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.