New Methods of Recording Attendance in Pharmacology: Comparative Study

To assess the advantages and disadvantages of the conventional method and group attendance method (new method) recording attendance and its comparison. The research conducted over the duration of 6 month in second year medical students. The attendance was recorded by conventional method and group attendance method in theory class as well as in practical class. In practical class batch was divided into batch-A 75 students, batch-B 75 students. Students will be given the pretest before class and posttest after the class to solve and feedback forms to fill. Data was tabulated and analyzed using unpaired't' test. Similarly the feedback forms were also analyzed for the responses. When the two methods - conventional method, group method are compared qualitatively and quantitatively it was proved that group method is the best method of taking the attendance due to its advantages.