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BACKGROUND: In the past, textbook or printed material was the only source of information formedical students or post-graduate students. After the introduction of internet, knowledge can beaccessed easily which is updated with various aids such as animation, videos which improve thelearning efficiency. This study was conducted to compare the learning efficiency between textbookbased seminar to that of internet-based seminar in postgraduate students of the department ofdermatology.MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a non-randamized controlled study. The postgraduate studentsin the department of dermatology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical college, DMIMS(DU),Sawangi (Meghe),Wardha, Maharashtra, India were divided into two equal groups by simple randomization methodby flipping the coin. Totally 20 seminar topics were divided into two groups (A and B) consistingof 10 seminars in each group. Postgraduate students assigned in group A were asked to prepareseminar solely from textbooks while in group B, students were asked to prepare seminar by referringinternet. Feedback form which consists of 7 points, i.e. appearance, completeness of preparation,clarity of presentation, appropriate use of audio visual aids, understanding of subject, ability toanswer questions, and overall performance were filled up from faculties and postgraduate studentsafter completion of each seminar. Pretest and post-test were filled up from postgraduate studentsbefore and after each seminar respectively. Learning gain was calculated by comparing the scoresof pretest and posttest. Paired t-test was used to compare results in the group and unpaired t-testwas used to compare results between the two groups.RESULTS: Faculties’ feedback on overall performance was higher (4.59 ± 0.15) in web-basedseminars as compared to in textbook-based seminars (3.85 ± 0.1) with significant P = 0.008.Furthermore, postgraduate students’ feedback showed statistical significant value of 0.02 in webbased seminars (4.65 ± 0.06) compared to textbook-based seminars (3.2 ± 0.06). Learning gainwas significantly higher in web-based seminar compared to textbook-based seminar with P = 0.02.CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that web-based learning can improve the learning efficiency inpostgraduate medical students.