175COMPARISON OF COMPUTER SIMULATED LEARNING VERSUS CONVENTIONAL ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS IN EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY: TEACHERS AND STUDENTS PERSPECTIVETo evaluate and analyze effectiveness of conventional animal experiments in Pharmacology in comparison to Computer simulated learning. A questionnaire based survey was conducted to 2nd year MBBS Students and Teachers in Pharmacology. Questions were pertaining to the understanding, Practical skills, Recollection and Remembrance of the experiments in Pharmacology. The acceptability, advantages and disadvantages by using CAL software as an educational tool was then assessed by using a predesigned questionnaire. 86% students and 98% teachers agreed with the use of animal Experiments in Pharmacology Curriculum. The students preferred Traditional Animal based Experiments as they felt that they can remember the experiments well only by doing it on their own on animals. They also expressed that Practical skills can be obtained only by doing the animal experiments. It was observed that teachers believed that students can understand and remember better only by doing the animal experiments. Students were particular about remembering the subject properly which could be only by doing the animal experiments. They do not prefer CAL as they felt it is totally imaginary and not able to understand clearly. Majority of Students and Teachers opined that Computer Assisted learning can be considered to be utilized for Revisions and Repetitions of Practical Exercises. The results of present study point towards continuation of animal experiments with refinement and reduction in number of using animals in teaching pharmacology practicals to undergraduate medical students.jamunadrrani@yahoo.comResearch722017 Conventional Animal Experiments,Computer Assisted learning (CAL),Experimental PharmacologyM. Jamuna Rani,Somnath,G. Motgi,Rohith Singh,NagakrishnaDepartment of Pharmacology, Malla Reddy Institute of Medical sciences, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.,Department of Pharmacology, Malla Reddy Institute of Medical sciences, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.,Department of Pharmacology, Malla Reddy Institute of Medical sciences, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.,Department of Pharmacology, Malla Reddy Institute of Medical sciences, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.,Department of Pharmacology, Malla Reddy Institute of Medical sciences, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.