About Us

Welcome to the Residents' Teaching Skills Web Site, a collaboration with the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Section of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

Resident physicians in all specialties serve as important teachers for their peers and junior learners. Data indicate that resident physicians provide a large percentage of all teaching that  medical students receive. Through the AAMC's GME Section, multidisciplinary faculty across the country are collaborating to develop this Web site as an online resource for resident teachers. There is no fee to participate in any part of our Web site.

If you are a resident teacher or faculty member/GME leader, we hope you will take a few minutes now to complete our Clinical Teaching Perception Inventory® and learn more about your teaching style while improving your teaching skills. (Medical students are also welcome to take the CTPI.) Your answers will be anonymously recorded so that we can advance the state of knowledge about residents as teachers; your individual answers will not be connected with your name. This project is run by medical faculty who will guard the confidentiality of your name and email address. Using CTPI data from residents in different specialties across the country, we are developing new curricula to help residents improve their teaching skills while enjoying teaching. These curricula will eventually be made available online. Meanwhile, explore and enjoy our Web site in progress!

The Residents' Teaching Skills Web Site Investigators:
      Elizabeth Morrison, MD, MSED, Principal Investigator
      Joan A. Friedland, MD, MPH
      Maurice Hitchcock, EdD
      John Boker, PhD
      Karen Garman, EdD
      Lloyd Rucker, MD
      Janet Palmer Hafler, EdD

Many thanks to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Bureau of Health Professions, and the Tamkin Foundation for providing support for this Web site.