Developing and rewarding teachers as educators and scholars: remarkable progress and daunting challenges

This article describes the scholarly work that has addressed the fifth recommendation of the 1988 World Conference on Medical Education: 'Train teachers as educators, not content experts alone, and reward excellence in this field as fully as excellence in biomedical research or clinical practice'.Over the past 30 years, scholars have defined the preparation needed for teaching and other educator roles, and created faculty development delivery...