104EVALUATION OF STUDENTS’ OPINION ABOUT CURRENT TEACHING TECHNIQUES IN PHARMACOLOGYIn past few years undergraduate training and teaching in pharmacology has been changed with adoptions of new methods of teaching. Students' seminars, group discussions and practical classes on therapeutic problems are being introduced. These methods help the students to gain overall knowledge about the subject .Reviewing the teaching and evaluation methods by feedback from students and modification of methodologies accordingly is very important to make this subject interesting and relevant. Hence, the present study was planned to determine the opinion of students regarding current teaching practices and reforms to be made in pharmacology teaching. This was a cross sectional, questionnaire based study. The study instrument was a self- developed, prevalidated semi-structured questionnaire. The most interesting class for the students was lectures (41.58%),followed by demonstrations(17.45%),seminars(15.42%) tutorials & practicals each(11.68%). 24.29% of students preferred chalk board technique. Regarding their view on practical classes 41.12% students opined it to be theoretical, lacking use of psychomotor skills(10.74%),deficient in applied aspect(33.64%) ,but informative(33.74%). 77.10% students felt the need of pharmacy exercises, 88.37% wanted computer assisted learning as a replacement to animal experiments .Thus 68.22% students wanted modification in practical curriculum. 48.59% participants insisted for post lecture test for each topic ,48.13% demanded inclusion of clinical pharmacology,42.52% wanted introduction of group discussion, 33.64% opined about making lectures more interactive. Students were satisfied with the current pharmacology teaching system, with certain modifications in practicals.jaiswalkavita37@yahoo.comResearch532015Teaching technology,Questionnaire based studyJaiswal KM,Pimpalkhute SA,Sontakke SD,Bajait CS,Gaikwad AAssistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Nagpur, 440009, India.,Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Nagpur, 440009, India.,Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Nagpur, 440009, India.,Assistant Professor,Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Nagpur, 440009, India.,JR III, Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Nagpur, 440009, India.