Anatomy
Faculties
Overview
- Malabar Medical College, Department of Anatomy was established in 2009
- Primarily a teaching department and responsible for teaching anatomy and guiding 250 Medical, 100 Dental and many BSc Nursing and Paramedical students.
- The department try to inculcate a love for the subject by using different modalities of teaching and interactive sessions and make their tenure in the department informative, enjoyable and a memorable one
- Anatomy taught in three ways : Gross anatomy by cadaver dissection, Microanatomy by projection of histology slides and Embryology & Medical Genetics using charts,
models and specimens of fetuses.
Teaching Program
Academics
- To provide the basic knowledge of Anatomy for building a strong foundation for a clinical career.
- To imbibe professionalism into the budding doctors.
- To instill a research oriented approach at the undergraduate level
- To improve continually the efficiency of learning for our students
- To strive for excellence in the Anatomy Teaching Programmes
Facilities
- Dissection Lab – Department consists of an excellent, spacious and well ventilated dissection hall with an attached cadaver storage and specimen handling room. Seperate locker rooms are provided for girls and boys to keep their belongings. LCD projector with big screen is being provided in the dissection hall for giving a preview on dissection.
- Dissection Hall 2 with 100 seating facility.
- A well equipped Histology lab with around 90 microscopes and good quality sections of all tissues. Two preparation rooms with all the equipments required for preparation of slides and its staining.
- A well spacious Lecture hall with LCD projector.
- 2 Demo rooms with LCD projectors.
- Museum with about 250 specimens including soft tissues, bones & models.
- Department library with good collection of reference books.
- Neuro Anatomy Research Lab.
- Department Library with good collection of reference books and Journals (National & Inter National).
Activities
Involved in teaching of MBBS, BDS, BScNursing, Bsc Optometry, BSc MLT,BPT,DRTcourses
Teaching Learning Methods have been updated in accordance with the new Competency Based Medical Education.
Seminar presentations for students are done regularly after which an interactive session is conducted between faculties & students for clarifying the doubts & understanding concepts
Small group discussions are being conducted frequently from dissection hall and active participation of each & every student is ensured
Clinical Oriented questions are given related to each topic and doubts regarding it are clarified
Vertical integration for clinically relevant topics are conducted monthly where clinicians from various specialities give interesting talks on the subject including the videos of various clinical cases & procedures .Students were also taken to wards to observe the Bedside clinical evaluation by clinicians and understand the rapport between doctor & patient.
Periodic feedback are collected from table representatives from each dissection table where they can address the difficulties faced by them and appropriate rectifying measures are taken accordingly.
SLOs & relevant diagrams for each topic is given.
After each internal exams students are categorized according marks.Intensive training , great attention& care are given for weak performers
Table wise mentoring is done regularly by table teachers where mentees are being monitored continuously.Students are free to communicate academic, personal, financial, social or any problems with the mentors which will be held highly confidential and solutions are sorted out .Feedback of each mentee is given to parents periodically. Parents are also free to contact mentors if they have any queries.
Model making contest for embryology topics was conducted to make the students study the topics in a more interesting& simplified way Students were divided in to groups and each group was asked to select a particular topic.They were given 1 hour time to make the model. Representatives from each group was asked to present the topic.All the groups came out with wonderful models which helped them a lot in stretching their imaginations and clarifying the doubts.
X-Hebacon 23-CME on 12th August, 2023.
Anatomy Kaicon- Anatomy State conference on May 4th, 2024 of ASI Kerala Chapter.
Mednova II- Medical Conference on 26th April, 2025.
Manniquins- Made for the purpose of training in surface marking for UG & PG.
Add On Course as directed by NMC.