At Queen's University students may have many months between their gynaecology teaching associates (GTAs) teaching session and their first attendance at gynaecology clinics. In many circumstances their preparedness to perform a first examination seems limited. The first examination experience in clinic is the most critical since subsequent examinations are done after critique and feedback. We wish to determine whether our web-based video instruction module, when viewed immediately prior to the first examination, adequately prepares naïve students to skilfully perform their first pelvic exam. This will require simulated patients, qualified examiners, and the use of a comprehensive assessment tool. If this technology is effective this will offer significant savings in terms of time to the medical school for scheduling of many GTAs sessions over many months, to the students who currently set aside two hours for a GTA session, and in terms of ongoing costs ($200 per student for GTA sessions; $20,000 per year).