A questionnaire based study of pharmacology curriculum in undergraduate students (original) (raw)

Pharmacology, a branch of medicine is progressing by leaps and bounds, but medical students decry the way it is taught, its examinations, its usefulness when they practice. Hence to assess the students attitude, perception and feedback on teaching – second year mbbs students (127 in number) were included. They were administered a pre-validated questionnaire containing – questions based on internationally accepted " Likert Scale ". Analysis was based on median score, and percentage wise distribution of the various parameters used in the questionnaire. Students were in favour of many changes in pharmacology like learning pharmacology simultaneously with clinical condition to correlate drug with diseases and teaching some topics during prefinal or final year to achieve the said objective, preferring case studies and treatment as part of regular teaching schedule, incorporation of clinically oriented lectures, preferring partial handouts before lectures and incorporation of MCQS in rating evaluation methods for examination.