Preliminary practice and evaluation of Harvard Medical School's Training to Teachers China Program

Objective To explore the practical effect of Harvard Medical School's T2T (Training-to-Teachers) Program for young clinical teachers and to improve the construction of medical discipline teaching echelon. Methods Twenty-six teachers from Peking Union Medical College Hospital were selected to participate in the T2T Program. The project consisted of medical education module of online courses, webinar, online test, capstone project, and workshop. At the end of the project, the feedback results of real-name questionnaires of all participating teachers were used to evaluate the practical effect of T2T Program. Results All the teachers undertook certain teaching tasks. Program members gave a high appraisal to the whole program: more than 90% of the members agreed that they had learnt the advanced medical education concept (96.2%), curriculum design method (96.1%), the practical teaching methods and teaching evaluation strategy(96.1%),and most of them agreed that they had learnt the practical design method for teach