| Sumario: | The development of psychomotor skills and the confidence associated with performing professional tasks are key milestones for health sciences students. Traditionally, these students are provided with lectures, readings, and limited simulated lab time in the didactic component of their education. Due to heavy course loads it is difficult to provide one-on- -one training for all students and to ensure that this training translates into strong professional competence. We have therefore created an e-learning module to be used in conjunction with traditional didactic education for a common healthcare skill: venipuncture. There is limited research on the effectiveness of e-learning modules in developing psychomotor skills for health sciences students and practitioners. Our goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of our supplementary module in traditional didactic programs. Students from these programs at Fanshawe College will be recruited and randomly assigned to a control or a study group. Students will be scored based on three main components: 1) psychomotor skills, 2) level of confidence, and 3) academic competence. We hypothesize that the study group will outperform the control group in all three areas of evaluation. Overall, this work will provide insights
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