title: Growing Teachers: using electives to teach senior residents how to teach.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Many physicians teach but few are taught how to teach, particularly through pedagogical interventions. The authors describe a method for teaching curriculum development and classroom skills to psychiatric residents using an elective in the fourth postgraduate year.
  
  
  METHODS
  An elective in pedagogy provided a framework for the planning, teaching, and evaluation phases of developing a new course.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The elective resulted in four new, well-received courses and encouraged two participants to pursue careers in academic psychiatry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The elective helped residents achieve essential teaching skills, foster mentoring relationships with senior teaching faculty, and develop as future junior faculty members.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia, New York, NY 10032, USA. am2637@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Alexandra R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Melissa R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Arbuckle
authors.forename: Alicia A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.forename: Deborah L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Cabaniss
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008611:Mentors; D009518:New York; D016730:Program Development; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D013192:Staff Development; D013663:Teaching