Rating the importance of clinical teaching attributes
41 attributes of a clinical teacher are evaluated. They all were important to both residents and faculty. The data support a general picture of agreement between faculty and residents on attributes considered important in teaching. Specific attributes on which the two groups disagree may identify areas of concern in current clinical teaching practices, and may also indicate the need to analyze reasons for disagreement between the two groups. The inconsistency between resident and faculty ratings of importance for the intraoperative teaching attributes identified them as one focal point for the evaluation of clinical teaching performance.