title: Teaching students in the classroom and clinical skills environment.
abstract: This article demonstrates that careful planning and management can help to ensure effective learning for pre-registration students during theory and practical skills teaching. It highlights two lesson plans with intended learning outcomes, one for a didactic teaching session and the other for a psychomotor clinical skills session. The article identifies a variety of teaching and learning strategies that could be adopted.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust. greg.dix@cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dix
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hughes
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods