TitleIncentives for clinical teachers: On why their complex influences should lead us to proceed with caution. SummaryWhen medical education programs have difficulties recruiting or retaining clinical teachers, they often introduce incentives to help improve motivation. Previous research, however, has shown incentives can unfortunately have unintended consequences. When and why that is the case in the context of incentivizing clinical teachers remains unclear. The purposes of this study, therefore, were to understand what values and motivations influence teaching decisions; to delve deeper into how teaching incentives have been perceived; and, to provide recommendations to those seeking to better support clinician teachers. An interpretive description methodology was used to improve understanding of the development and delivery of teaching incentives. A purposeful sampling strategy identified a heterogenous sample of clinical faculty teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate contexts. The datafile, Study 2_Incentives and Motivations.nvpx, is an NVivo file containing interview transcripts with 16 faculty participants.