INTRODUCTION OF ANIMATED VIDEOS IN PHARMACOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR CLINICAL CORRELATION

Background: In this era of Competency based medical education (CBME), there is need to develop competency among medical students to understand and correlate theoretical knowledge of pharmacological action of drugs to their clinical application. In this project we introduced animated videos to the 2nd year MBBS students for showing pharmacological actions of drugs and checked their clinical correlating ability followed by feedback. Aim and Objectives: To Introduce animated videos in pharmacology to enhance understanding of clinical correlation of the drugs under study Methodology: The study was conducted on 2nd professional MBBS Students in Department of Pharmacology BPS ,GMC for Women Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat from June 2018 to August 2018.The total of 100 students were in five groups of 20 students each. Each group was allotted one drug and was instructed to search 2 videos showing pharmacological action of allotted drug. Committee of faculty members collectively selected and validated 5 videos (one for each drug)out of total of 10 videos .These 5 selected videos (showing Pharmacological of action of five drugs ) were discussed with students. Validated activity perform a for clinical correlation was filled by each student in the hospital by observing the patients findings. The perceptions and preferences of students were recorded on self structured, prevalidated questionnaires using 5 point Likert scale. Findings: More than 90% students gave feedback that introduction of videos in pharmacology lectures increased their interest, improved their understanding and increased their retention pertaining to the topics covered under this project. More than 85% students responded that these videos also helped them to correlate clinically the theoretical knowledge of drug with the pharmacological action of drugs. 99% of students felt that searching videos for a particular topic was time consuming Conclusion: Animated videos can be incorporated in curriculum of pharmacology, as a tool for increasing understanding, knowledge and retention of the students and for increasing their ability to clinical correlate the pharmacological action of drug