Background

A teacher's role has expanded to include the skills of coach, facilitator, and mentor.   Teaching techniques have evolved to match the variety and complexity of material and information to be delivered.  This coupled with a growing base of knowledge about how individuals learn adds to the need for faculty to constantly build their teaching skills. 

Peer teaching assessments provide you, our medical faculty, a way to have an experienced educator focus not on what, but how you teach.  Methods, media and delivery will be observed.  Direction, suggestions and feedback will be offered by master teachers to help build on strengths and improve weaknesses in your teaching skills. 

All peer reviewers have also participated in a review of their own teaching.  This has formed the basis for us to build this program into one of sharing best practices.