Novel Ideas and Approaches to Learning Medical Sciences

Medicine is a progressive discipline for medical students who are going to be future doctors. Therefore to determine the opinion of students regarding the 2^nd Professional M.B.B.S. subject, teaching methodology, reforms to be introduced, computer and Internet use and its application in teaching learning process this study was done.

475 students were given a questionnaire which consisted of 2–5 options. Questionnaire consisted of 2 parts. First part was about demographic characteristic, second part was about the subject 465 students in the age group 19–24 yr with male female ration 1:1, mostly from northern India were included in the study. Forensic Medicine emerged as the favorite subject followed by Pharmacology, Pathology and Microbiology. 40.86% (190) wanted more of clinically oriented classes, problem based learning and use of audiovisual aids. 72.04% (335) wanted integrated teaching curriculum. So in our opinion we can adopt a curriculum which is clinically oriented, integrated, revised pattern with computer application and internet use. This will make the teaching learning process in the medical sciences more effective and relevant to the health of the society.