Dr. Archana Parihar
BACKGROUND Feedback from the students in the form of a questionnaire helps to fill up the lacunae and in turn leads to requisite modifications required for the improvement of the subject. Reviewing of the teaching methodology and evaluation methods regularly by taking feedback from the students helps in improvement of the same and provides a scope for the alteration of the curriculum. Feedback also helps in enhancement of the students’ performance. We wanted to evaluate the attitude, perception and feedback of medical undergraduates studying in Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences, on teaching learning methodology and evaluation methods undertaken in pharmacology. METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire based observational study was conducted among the undergraduates from 5th and 7th semester of MBBS. A total of 174 students were enrolled in the study and they were required to fill up the questionnaire which contained questions on teaching learning methodology and evaluation methods in pharmacology. RESULTS Significant number of students (53.44%) regarded pharmacology as useful, practically important and interesting. Majority of the students (27.01%) favoured chalk blackboard lectures. Most interesting topic amongst students was CNS (20.68%), followed by ANS (18.96%). Clinical case sheet discussion (30.45%) was the favourite practical. Many students (29.88%) preferred to study from textbooks only. Majority of the students (35.05%) rated send up exams as the most useful evaluation method in preparation for the university professional exam. Maximum students (72.98%) considered assessment in pharmacology as fair. CONCLUSIONS The overall view of the students has been positive towards teaching learning methodology and evaluation methods adopted in pharmacology in our institution. The present study has provided valuable inputs and made us aware of the needs and expectations of the students, which in turn would help in planning the curriculum and improvisation of teaching and evaluation methods employed in our Institution.
