Despite the value of feedback, in clerkship alone, 70% of teachers do not receive feedback (MD Program, University of Toronto, Nov. 22, 2022 newsletter). Dr. Esther Bui, a neurologist and clinician educator, has been working tirelessly to help teachers who face the feedback dilemma by developing an innovative evaluation platform for the fast-paced clinical teaching environment. Dr. Bui believes that good teachers teach well, but great teachers learn well, especially when they receive timely, rich, meaningful feedback in an environment that sees and enables their full potential.

Imagine receiving 80+ evaluations from one teaching session alone, as Dr. Carol Ott, a clinician teacher experienced, or extend that ability to an ambulatory clinic or Morning Report? How about acquiring hundreds of comments on the impact of your one-on-one procedural teaching? This is exactly what users of myTE are discovering.  Dr. Tina Trinkaus, Faculty Lead for the Valuing the Clinician Teacher portfolio states "every clinical teacher needs to know about myTE".

myTE, abbreviated from my Teaching Evaluation, was designed by Dr. Bui in response to the challenges clinical teachers experience in documenting and evaluating their teaching. It is a simple-to-use, secure, universal platform that captures any teaching, anywhere, any time. In less than 30 seconds, myTE enables teachers to open real-time pathways for meaningful, confidential feedback. The platform currently has 1000+ registered users around the world and has enabled 10,000+ evaluations. As people learn about myTE, its utility is expanding to both clinical and non-clinical (research) teaching, as well as to surgery, anesthesia, dentistry, nursing and allied health. 

In 2022, myTE Professional Suite (myTEprof.com) was launched with significant advancements such as autogenerated QR codes, direct links and notifications, as well as a suite of powerful tools such as portfolio creation and teaching metrics dashboards. These enhancements take on the administrative heavy lifting of the teaching dossier process to enable teachers to simply teach and learn with access to timely, confidential and secure feedback. This exciting new platform is opening up more pathways for good teachers to become great teachers.

"With one click, I was able to generate a pooled feedback report of all my learners across 10 occurrences of the same teaching topic. Powerful." - Dr. Jeffrey Wang, Neurology

 "I use it routinely for all my teaching and simulation sessions." - Dr. Ricardo Teijeiro Paradis, Critical Care Medicine

 "It helps validate my teaching and mentoring sessions." - Dr. Alice Kam, Physiatry