157INTERACTIVE COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING IN EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY- THE II YEAR MBBS STUDENT’S VIEWPOINT ON FACILITATORS AND SOFTWARE PROGRAMMEPractical labs are the corner stone of undergraduate pharmacology curriculum .Computer assisted learning (CAL) for teaching experimental pharmacology is becoming fast acceptable in many medical colleges. In a study conducted with a single cohort (n=77) of II-year MBBS students (academic year 2015-2016) at BGS Global Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology, Bangalore, more than 90% of II MBBS students found that CAL helped them to achieve the learning objectives, enriched and personalized the learning experience at their own pace within the time slot. The objective of this study was to assess the viewpoint of II MBBS students on facilitators expertise, approachability and communicativeness and also to evaluate the CAL software . This study is an observational, cross-sectional, questionnaire based survey. Seventy seven (77) II-year MBBS students at BGS GIMS attended the practical's and filled a survey questionnaire. Data was analyzed using simple descriptive statistics. Questionnaire results showed that more than 90% of students expressed high level of satisfaction with facilitators expertise, approachability and communicativeness. More than 80% of students were highly positive towards quality of computer simulated model, written text with subsections, graphics and the practice exercises in the CAL interactive multimedia software. This signifies that both teachers and the software play crucial role amongst students in accepting the new teaching and learning methodology in pharmacology. The feedback from the students serves as an effective tool not only in developing teaching and evaluation methodology but also to assess the lacunae in teaching and evaluation methodology. This continuous process of repair and reforms is quintessential to bring about the changes which would match the teaching and learning methodologies and curriculum in pharmacologydrveenarm@gmail.comResearch632016Attitude,Pharmacology,Teaching and learning,Evaluation methodVeena RM,Kalpana L,Lavanya SH,Bharath Kumar VD,Manasa CRDepartment of Pharmacology, BGS Global Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. 560060.,Department of Pharmacology, BGS Global Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. 560060.,Department of Pharmacology, BGS Global Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. 560060.,Department of Pharmacology, BGS Global Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. 560060.,Department of Pharmacology, BGS Global Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. 560060.