113LEARNING STYLES AND TEACHING-LEARNING METHOD PREFERENCES OF SECOND YEAR MEDICAL UNDERGRADUATES IN PHARMACOLOGY IN A RURAL MEDICAL COLLEGELearning style’ is the individual’s preferred method of gathering, processing, interpreting, organizing and analyzing the information. Each student has unique style/s of learning according to the situations. In the medical institutions, we teachers tend to use the common teaching-learning methods for all students irrespective of their learning styles because of the ease, and time constraints for covering up the syllabus. Evaluating the effectiveness of the teachinglearning methods with respect to the learning styles of the students on a regular basis is very essential to improve the amount of learning in medical students. Objectives to understand the learning styles and the teaching-learning method preferences of second year medical undergraduates in Pharmacology. The study is an observational, questionnaire-based study. The study was conducted in second year medical undergraduate students. The questionnaires about learning styles as per Neil Fleming's inventory Version 7.8 and teaching-learning methods were distributed to the students and were asked to choose their most preferred teaching-learning method for 10 parameters. The data obtained about the learning styles and teaching learning methods were assessed by calculating the percentages for each learning style and teaching-learning method. Among the learning styles, male students preferred Auditory style of learning followed by Kinaesthetic, Readwrite, and Visual, respectively. The female students preferred Kinaesthetic, Auditory, Read-write, and Visual, respectively. In total, the students preferred Auditory style followed by Kinaesthetic, Read-write and Visual learning styles, respectively. Majority of the students preferred multimodal learning. Among the teaching-learning methods lectures followed by practical sessions and demonstrations were most preferred. From this study, we can conclude that the teaching faculty should implement the teaching methods which cater to different learning styles of the students. The importance for lectures, practical sessions & demonstrations should be stressed.drvinm81@yahoo.comResearch542015Learning styles,Teaching methods,PharmacologyVinaya M, Suparna Podder,Ganesh PradhanAssistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellur, Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellur ,Demonstrator, Department of Physiology, AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha