Section I. Teaching and Preparation: 1. Improving patient care through continuing professional development Guy Brookes; 2. MRCPsych: preparing trainees and improving courses Jayne Greening, Erin Turner, Gareth Rees, Caroline Winkle, Eleanor Dryhurst and Radhika Kanessan; 3. Going beyond 'good enough' teaching in psychiatric training Neil Sarkar and Victor Cohn; 4. A guide to conducting an online literature search for medical educators Riccardo De Giorgi and Patricia Casey; 5. Writing for learning and publication Peter Tyrer and Andrew Northern; Section II. Teaching Methods: 6. Small and large group teaching Anne Worrall-Davies; 7. Whys and hows of patient-based teaching Monica Doshi and Nick Brown; 8. Simulation based learning in psychiatric training Anna Ludvigsen,, Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa and Subodh Dave; 9. Running journal clubs in psychiatry Geraldine Swift and Joshua Bellevue de Sylva; 10. Workshops: an important element in medical education Allys Guérandel, Brían Ó Ruairc and Hiberet Tessema Belay; 11. Delivering a good lecture Brendan D. Kelly; Section III. Feedback, Assessment, Supervision and Reflection: 12. Giving effective feedback to psychiatric trainees Nick Brown; 13. The postgraduate curriculum and assessment programme in psychiatry: the underlying principles Gareth Holsgrove, Amit Malik and Dinesh Bhugra; 14. Supervision of psychiatric trainees David Cottrell; Section IV. Bridging the Gaps: Foundation Years and Interprofessional Education: 15. Psychiatry in the foundation programme: an overview for supervisors Holly Smith and Arthita Das; 16. Interprofessional education in mental health services Daniel Kinnair, Elizabeth Anderson, Henderikus van Diepen, Cath Poyser and Kris Roberts; Section V. Technologies Old and New: 17. Portfolio-based learning in medical education Antonina Ingrassia and Oliver Batham; 18. Bringing smartphone technology into undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry Melvyn W. B. Zhang, Cyrus S. H. Ho, Christopher C. S. Cheok and Roger C. M. Ho; 19. Evidence-based mental health and e-learning Katharine A. Smith, Katherine E. Stevens, Andrea Cipriani and John R. Geddes; 20. Powerpoint: avoiding the slide to damnation Guy Undrill and Fiona McMaster; 21. Virtual teaching and learning in psychiatric medical education Thomas Hewson, Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa and Subodh Dave; Section VI. The Trainee in Difficulty, Professionalism, Appraisal: 22. The trainee in difficulty: where are we now? Sarah Huline-Dickens; 23. Coaching and mentoring: an overview for trainers in psychiatry Sarah Huline-Dicken.