Background: Didactic lecture is one of the most widely accepted methods among teaching and learning methodology. Because of time restriction and vast syllabus to be covered through lectures, feedback knowledge before and after the lectures to assess the extent knowledge of learners gained provides the platform for feedback method to improve the lectures to make it more receptive for students. Aims and Objectives: Aims and objectives were to evaluate the knowledge of didactic lecture among students by giving pre-and post-test questionnaire based evaluation technique. Material and Methods: 2 nd year MBBS students (4 th and 5 th term) after obtaining their consent for voluntary participation, asked to take the pretest containing 10 questions on antiamoebic drugs, and the same 10 questions were provided at the end of the lecture as a post-test questionnaire to assess the effectiveness of the teaching as well as the receptive power of students and their pre-and post-lecture knowledge. Papers were valued on score basis and improvement, data recorded, interpreted, and analyzed. Results: There was significant improvement in the recipient knowledge after post-lecture assessment when compared to pretest. Out of 156 students, only 56 (35.90%) obtained scores between 5 and 8 and 100 (64.10%) were below 5. These scores were improved in post-test by 78.21% (122) obtained scores between 5 and 8, while 21.79% (34) got scores more than 8 indicating the high recipient group reflecting good improvement in cognitive structure. Conclusion: Voluntary participation in such tests provides feedback on teachers teaching effectiveness and adequacy of knowledge gained by learners.

Background: Majority of the consumers remain unaware about the disposal of unused or expired medicines. The misuse and improper disposal of medications are a major safety and environmental concern, and therefore the proper disposal of these medications is critically important. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to know the behavior of individual's disposal practices of unused and expired medicines among the medical undergraduate in B G Nagar. Materials and Methods:This was a descriptive, cross-sectional questionnaire based study done on 2 nd year medical students of Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, B G Nagar. Returned questionnaires were double-checked for accuracy. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and Microsoft excel was used for statistical analysis. Results: Total of 128 valid questionnaires were returned with 38.28% male and 61.72% female student participation. About half of the respondents (50%) stored more than 5 medicines followed by 46.88% stored 1-5 medications at home. Majority of them disposed unused/expired drugs in municipality garbage. Majority of respondents held government responsible for creation of awareness for proper medicine disposal. 71.43% felt that drug leftover at home was in tablet form. 74.22% of them were aware of the environmental damage due to unscientific way of drug disposal methods. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that the awareness of proper and safe drug disposal among the medical students is quite fair. To make it more effective, the concerned authorities need to implement educational programs regularly.

INTRODUCTION WHO defines Pharmacovigilance as "the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem". 1 The world health organization (WHO) defines an ADR as "a response to a drug which is harmful and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man for the prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy of disease or for the modification of body functions". 2 Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have revealed that around 2.9-5.6% of all hospital admissions are due to ADRs and as many as 35% of hospitalized individuals experience an ADR during their period of hospitalization. 3

BACKGROUNDMedical education is highly stressful and higher stress has been documented in medical students. Stepping entirely into a new environment, huge medical course syllabus which has to be mastered in a short period of time, continuous internal assessments, examinations, being far from family and other social and personal issues are more prone to develop negative emotional symptoms to a newly joined student.

BACKGROUND Over-the-counter drugs (OTC) or non-prescriptive drugs are the drugs that are purchased without a prescription. Medical professionals have a common tendency to practice self-medication when they feel sick themselves. Self-medication practice in medical professionals gets incorporated right from their undergraduate days. As medical students are the future medical practitioners, it assumes a specific significance among them. AIMS & OBJECTIVES To analyze the use of over-the-counter drugs among medical students, to determine the type of OTC drugs commonly used and to determine the various factors responsible for the usage of OTC drugs. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted among 2 nd year medical students of AIMS, B. G. Nagar.