Assessment of pharmacology teaching- A critical appraisal by medical school learners

Students feedback is an indicator of the success of any teaching methodology followed in a department.

To identify strengths and weaknesses in the current teachinglearning and evaluation methodology in pharmacology using feedback from second MBBS students in Meenakshi Medical College and Research Institute.

Questionnaire was designed and finalised after a departmental discussion in concurrence with the Medical Education Unit. The study subjects were 115 (2011batch) secondyear medical students. They were requested to fill the questionnaire. A 10-item multiple choice questionnaires were used to explore the student's opinion on teaching. The questionnaires were analyzed.

115 II M.B.B.S students participated and descriptive statistics was used for analysis of data. The analysis revealed 82.82%, 72.17% and 93.64% student's interest towards writing classification of drugs, weekly test and vivavoice respectively.

The present study has helped us to elicit the student preference regarding pharmacology teaching and its outcome would be helpful in modifying undergraduate pharmacology teaching patterns.