Teaching medical subject and making the students understand it’s quite challenging.

Though the students were aware of the subjects from schooling they find difficult to  remember or tend confuse in the similar topics such as the functions of sympathetic and  parasympathetic systems in the neuroanatomy. When I ask the students what’s the function of  sympathetic nervous system few were correct, few were wrong and majority of them are not  sure.

So I got an idea how to make them certain about the functions of sympathetic and

parasympathetic nervous system. During my next class I gave them white paper and told  them you have surprise test today and the marks you obtain from this test will be added to  your internal marks which gave them a panic and after few minutes I explained them "this is  how sympathetic nervous system will work and when I say no test, you feel relaxed there  comes the action of parasympathetic system". Literally I could see that they understood  clearly, few started clapping out of excitement.

