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During the time spent at medical school, students may be presented with various opportunities to engage in teaching and medical education. Often these opportunities are passed up or indeed overlooked all together. However, the value of developing teaching skills and engaging in such activities for the dissemination, application and translation of medical knowledge is of great importance to the progress of all trainees. The CanMEDS physician competency framework highlights the role of the scholar as being one of the six constituents integral to the development of the medical expert [1]. This role of the scholar encompasses the expectation that students and trainees will develop proficiency in their teaching skills along with other important clinical, developmental and training specific criteria. The General Medical Council recognizes that it is a developmental imperative to mentor the core skills of teaching in the …