Assessment of Teaching Learning Methods and Different Preferences to Increase Quality and Attendance in Learning Among Undergraduate Medical Student - A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Introduction: The educators or the teachers are one of the vital parts of our community, but nowadays teaching the students is demanding and stressful job. Didactic lectures, the gold standard and the most preferred method of teaching where students exposed to large amounts of information making them difficult to retain, remember and interpret with one way communication. That’s why medical educators across the world and in India are reforming their student curriculum and use different teaching-learning strategies, to cope up and adopt with the present digital world students. Material and Methods: Present cross sectional analytical study was conducted in MBBS students by self administered pre designed questionnaire. Total 260 willing students who completely filled the self-administered questionnaire was included in the study. Results: 40.39% students were of age group 18-19 and 54.23% of 20-21 years age group. 56.92% were female and majority of students reside in Hostel (75.39%). While ask about most effective method, 77.69% preferred Power Point presentation. 78.46% admits that morning teaching session was best for concentration. 71.15% prefer problem-based teaching learning method and likes answering questions asked by teachers (69.23%). Conclusion: In today’s world, teaching and learning both are undergoing dynamic changes as paradigm is shifting from traditional teaching learning methods to more advanced interactive and problem-based approach of teaching. As uses of technology is increasing, institutes should also incorporate and updates the newer methods of teaching learning to increase interest and understanding of students. Key words: teaching learning, newer methods, problem-based teaching