190REINFORCING THE TRADITIONAL DIDACTIC LECTURES WITH CLINICALLY ORIENTED AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS: AN EFFECTIVE AND FEASABLE APPROACH TO TEACH PHARMACOTHERAPY OF EPILEPSY IN MEDICAL UNDER GRADUATESBackground: Audio-visual aids (A-V aids) are used to improve the effectiveness of lectures. Recently clinically oriented teaching-learning methods have gained importance and are preferred by the second year MBBS students. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of use of clinically oriented A-V-aids as part of didactic lectures (re-inforced didactic lectures) in teaching pharmacotherapy of epilepsy. Material and methods: Total of sixty-four students (N=64) from second year MBBS, from two different batches, batch A (N=37) and batch B (N=27) were included in the study. In re-inforced didactic lectures, video-animations involving different aspects of drug use in epilepsy were incorporated. A well-consolidated questionnaire containing fifteen multiple choice questions (MCQs) based on drug use in epilepsy was used to assess the effectiveness of the re-inforced didactic lectures. Data was collected and analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 23.0. Results: For batch A, mean pre-test score was 7.16±2.92 (out of total score 15) and the mean post-test score was 7.67±3.1 and was not statistically significant (p- value >0.01). For batch B, the mean pre-test score was 4.046±1.66 and post-test score was 7.0 ±2.72 and was statistically significant (p- value < 0.01). The number of students who scored ≥ 50% (score value ≥ 7.5) in the post-test was higher than that in pre-test in both the batches [Batch A: 22 (59%) versus 16 (43%); Batch B: 11(41%) versus 2 (7%)] Conclusion: The re-inforced didactic lectures showed good results in this group of students. This method can be a feasible and effective teaching method to encourage clinical oriented learning and can be extended to other topics like asthma, hypertension etc.pallavid30th@gmail.comResearch822018Audio-visual aids,Didactic lectures,EpilepsyPallavi Kulkarni,Vidhiyasagaran J,Deepashri Sukumaran,Alice kuruvilla,Regina RoyMD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Karuna Medical College, Vilayodi, Chittur, Palakkad, Kerala, India.,MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India.,MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Believers Church Medical College, Thiruvalla, Kerala, India.,MD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Karuna Medical College, Vilayodi, Chittur, Palakkad, Kerala, India.,MD, Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology, Karuna Medical College, Vilayodi Chittur, Palakkad, Kerala, India.