ABSTRACT Background: Remedial intervention or re teaching and repeat examination of the difficult chapters in Biochemistry can be one way to overcome weak performance by the phase 1 students in Biochemistry. The under performances by the medical students especially in Biochemistry may be because of inadequate guidance or lack of interest in a pre-clinical subject. Methodology: The present study was a Quasi experimental study conducted among the under performers in biochemistry. In the second sessional examination results in Biochemistry, those students who got less than 50% marks and who were willing to participate in the study were enrolled for remedial intervention. After a pretest, the participants were divided into small groups. Later on, 4 core biochemistry topics were discussed as small group discussion for 20 minutes with these participants. Four separate topics were covered using the same methodology which was followed by a post test.The pretest and posttest scores were analysed statistically. Results: In the present study a total of 54 students of first year MBBS (2018 batch) participated. The mean and standard deviation of the pre-test and post-test score was analysed statistically. P value was statistically significant. Conclusion: In the present study the performance of the students after remedial intervention was good. So introduction of remedial intervention for re- teaching as part of medical curriculum by adjusting the teaching hours will help the medical students to handle their performance. The present study proves that targeted remedial intervention to the underperforming medical students after assessing their deficiencies can substantially improve their academic performance. Also we can conclude from the study the importance of early remedial intervention to these students. The success of remedial intervention can be augmented if the sessions are small group discussions. ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Biochemistry A STUDY DONE IN PHASE 1 MBBS STUDENTS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF REMEDIAL INTERVENTION IN UNDERPERFORMING STUDENTS OF BIOCHEMISTRY. KEY WORDS: Remedial teaching, poor performers, medical education INTRODUCTION: Remediation or remedial intervention in medical education is 'the act of facilitating a correction for trainees who started out on the journey toward becoming a physician but have moved off 1 course'. It can be defined as “additional teaching above and beyond the standard curriculum, individualized to the learner who without the additional teaching would not achieve the 2 necessary skills for the profession”. One of the necessary component of medical education is remediation which can ensure the performance as well as quality of the struggling learners. Remedial measures and follow up is still an inadequately addressed grey area in the field of medical education. Repeated poor performance always makes the 3 students to be a burden to the medical school. To address the learning difficulties, the remediation has been divided of different stages: 1) detecting problems, based on a subjective impression 2) gathering and documenting objective data, according to diagnostic hypotheses 3) making a pedagogical diagnosis based on this assessment and 4) planning a targeted remediation. In today's world, where failure in examination can drive a student to depression or to commit suicide, it is imperative that we take measures to prevent failures. Every effort can be made by the faculty of the department to analyse the difficulties faced by the students and provide necessary remedial measures. It is important that the medical educators intervene by identifying the under performance by the students as at times the phase 1 students find it difficult to identify the must learn areas of Biochemistry. The present study is conducted as there are limited studies undertaken to analyze the effect of remedial teaching on underperforming students or poor performing students. Research Question: Is remedial intervention effective for underperformers in Biochemistry, Phase 1 MBBS students? Hypothesis “Remedial intervention is an effective teaching method for underperformers in Biochemistry, Phase 1 MBBS students” OBJECTIVES: -To assess the effectiveness of remedial intervention on under performers in Biochemistry, Phase 1 MBBS students. METHODOLOGY: The present study was a Quasi-experimental (which is an interventional study that is used to estimate the impact of an intervention on a target population) study which was conducted in Amrita School of Medicine, AIMS, Kochi. 2018 batch MBBS students who got less than 50% marks for their second sessional assessment participated in the study. A total of 54 phase1 undergraduate students were included. The confidentiality of the students was maintained. The study duration was 2months (July- August 2019). Ashika. M.S. Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India. Col. (Dr) Vishal Marwaha* Principal, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India. *Corresponding Author Sumithra. N. Unni Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India. PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL F RESEARCH | O September - 2020 Volume - 9 | Issue - 9 | | PRINT ISSN No. 2250 - 1991 | DOI : 10.36106/paripex Sajitha. Krishnan. P. P Professor& HOD, Dept of Biochemistry, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India. Mrudula. E. V Lecturer, Dept of Biochemistry, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India. Sumitha Prabhu Lecturer, Dept of Biochemistry, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India. Reshmi. G. S. Lecturer, Dept of Biochemistry, Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India. 52 www.worldwidejournals.com