Abstract: 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 teaching and scientific research (69.3%) and that the content of the course arrangement was reasonable (65.3%). Among all the program curricula, members considered that the offline workshop (73.1%) and capstone project (69.2%) were the most fruitful parts. After the end of the program, all teachers intended to improve the current teaching situation based on what they had learned. 80.8% of the teachers would try new practical teaching methods, and 65.4% of the teachers would write teaching articles based on the content of the program. Conclusions In general, the T2T Program has achieved its goal, which is of great guiding significance for the establishment of a new medical education talent training system in China and the improvement of teaching quality.

Key words: T2T (Training to Teachers), teacher training programs, medical education