Revitalizing Anatomy teaching

Abstract

Anatomy is one of the important cornerstones of medicine. Traditional way of anatomy teaching using cadavers is
universally practiced and has been considered as essential to medical learning (1). In recent time the subject of
anatomy occupies a less prominent place within the overcrowded undergraduate medical curriculum paradoxically
over the same period the need for detailed anatomical knowledge at postgraduate level has increased dramatically
particularly by the developments in imaging and computer assisted three dimensional reconstructions. Anesthetists,
surgeons and clinicians have learned to look at familiar structures revealed in new ways such as laparoscopic and
endoscopic appearances (2). Failure of adapting other methods in mode of teaching by anatomists might have led the
Medical Council of India to reduce period of teaching from one and half to one year.