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Background and objectives: The shortage of medical teachers and quality teaching is felt greatly in the current medical education system. The Medical Council of India (MCI) has initiated faculty development programs to reduce this deficiency. However, this program doesn’t include residents, who are actually involved in teaching to a great extent. The present study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of adapted Medical Education Technology (MET) workshop for resident doctors in changing their perception as teachers of medicine. Methods: After obtaining the informed consent regarding this study and data collection, the resident doctors participating in the MET workshop were given a set of question papers designed to quantify their own perception (a 0 to 10 scale) about themselves as a medical teacher both for pre workshop and post workshop time. Data thus collected were analyzed by paired t test using INSTAT software and a p value of