The 2011/12 Continuing Professional Development Programme for Medical Teachers has been designed, and is to be delivered, by individuals from the Academic Unit of Primary Care, the Medical Education Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Bradford Primary Care Teaching PCT. We hope that through such collaboration we have managed to produce a programme of activity that has breadth, depth and that can meet the needs of its constituents. Given our wide audience we have endeavoured to site workshops both in the Leeds and Bradford areas. Workshops will be no longer than three hours given the clinical commitments of many participants.