Objective: COVID-19 pandemic pushed unprepared educational institutes towards online sessions. Though equivalence of online sessions proved already in many studies before pandemic, unplanned sessions and inexperienced teachers with networking issues and novice software for online sessions could not meet the standard of teaching that was expected or experienced during these sessions. We planned this study to know perspective of learners to measure quality of online sessions and to find out factors which could improve these sessions in future. Design: Prospective questionnaire based study Place & duration of study: Hitec IMS Dental College, from 10th Feb 2022 to 10th March 2022 Methodology: Questionnaire was distributed to 150 students of BDS who has attended online session during COVID-19 pandemic. Results: 85% of the responders appreciated online sessions happening during pandemic to avoid wastage of time but as high as 50% students were of the opinion that teachers could not maintain standard of teaching as in on campus session. Factors for this dis-satisfaction of students included issues like connectivity issues, gadgets of students as well as teachers, novelty to softwares to attend online class, and psychological issues like depression. So at the end 83% of students preferred on-campus sessions on on-line sessions. Conclusion: On the basis of findings of this study, it is recommended that we should continue activity of online teaching with improvement in resources and train our staff and students even in the absence of such emergency. Keywords: E-learning, Online learning, COVID pandemic, Learner’s perspective, Developing country, Medical education, Educational preparedness, satisfaction of learner,

With recent advancement in medical education importance is given to evaluation, which has been included as a part of curriculum planning and implementation. By finding out the factors that inhibit the successful implementation of curriculum better outcomes can be achieved. A mixed method study was carried out at Dental college HITEC IMS. The study was conducted in two phases. In the 1st phase the quantitative assessment was carried out to find out the success of curriculum and identifying the factors that hindered in its success. In the second phase group discussion for amending the inhibitors was carried out. this study on a validated questionnaire that was prepared on scoping review and Delphi study. Under six themes inhibitors were found in five themes. No inhibitor was found under the theme of educational program. This study has helped us to pick up the inhibitors of curricular success so that we can look into possible solutions to improve the quality of curriculum of dental college. We look forward to help other institutes who are facing the same issues in their curriculum quality by suggesting solution options obtained from focused group discussion. Keywords: Curriculum viability, curriculum inhibitors, dental curriculum