Department of Anatomy
Building a strong foundation in structural sciences — equipping medical students with deep, applicable knowledge of the human body.
Anatomy is the first of PESIMSR’s three Pre-Clinical departments, teaching students to identify, locate and correlate every structure in the human body — the base every later clinical correlation is built on.
Vision
Ready for global competition
To excel in providing quality medical education and conducting quality research, enabling students to face global competition.
Mission
How we get there
- Provide high quality teaching to medical and paramedical students.
- Provide an intellectually rich environment that facilitates research activities.
Department Goal
“Mould students into competent, confident and enthusiastic doctors who can maintain successful careers.”
Teaching Objectives
What students are expected to master at each stage of training in this department.
Knowledge
- Distinguish themselves in dissection consistency, theoretical knowledge and knowledge application, undertaking research training in gross, microscopic, developmental and comparative anatomy.
- Use acquired knowledge for periodical assessments and terminal examinations.
- Correlate and apply knowledge in para-clinical and clinical courses.
- Conduct basic research and contribute to the advancement of medicine.
- Train for OSPE, OSCE and problem-based questionnaires.
- Adapt to efficient teaching methodology encouraging self-directed learning using departmental facilities.
Skills
- Identify, locate and correlate body structures, and mark topography via surface anatomy.
- Identify normal tissues under the microscope; differentiate and discuss them.
- Understand the anatomical basis of imaging (MRI, CT scan, ultrasonography) and interpret normal radiological images.
- Learn basic clinical procedures using the skills lab — triangle of auscultation, McBurney’s point, resonance/dullness differentiation.
Knowledge
- Teach UG students the divisions of Anatomy — Gross, Embryology, Histology, Comparative, Osteology, Genetics, Anthropometry, Clinical, Radiological and Surgical Anatomy.
- Assess student understanding of anatomical sciences.
- Plan and initiate research methodology, and undertake independent research.
- Undertake histomorphometric and anthropometric studies.
Skills
- Effectively teach undergraduate medical students the anatomical mechanisms of the human body.
- Conduct clinical and experimental research impacting human health and patient care.
- Embalm cadavers, and prepare histological slides for microscopic study.
- Identify age and sex of the deceased via bone observation, and provide court testimony.
- Train in genetic counselling.
- Participate in workshops, seminars and journal clubs — presenting and publishing models, posters and papers.
Other Pre-Clinical Departments
Anatomy is one of three departments forming the foundation year of the MBBS program.
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