Anatomy

Department of Anatomy

Location: Ground floor of the academic building

Basic information of Anatomy Course

•Total duration of Phase I (Anatomy course) is 18 months including First professional MBBS examination.

•The course is divided into 3 terms. Duration: 1^st Term: 14 working weeks; 2^ndTerm: 15 working weeks; & 3rdTerm: 14 working weeks

•First professional examination to be started on first working day of May and November

•Time for integrated teaching, examination, and preparatory leave of formative and summative assessment is common for all subjects of the Phase I

Assessment:

a) There will be in-course (item/card/term) and end-course (professional) assessment for the students according to the current BM&DC curriculum

b) Formative assessment is done according to results of term final examination and class attendance as per instructions of current BM&DC curriculum.

Departmental Objectives:

At the end of the Anatomy course, the students should be able to:

mention, identify, show, draw and describe the structural components of the body responsible for carrying out normal body functions;
use the above knowledge to understand, correlate and appreciate the other pre-clinical, paraclinical and clinical medical subjects;
apply the knowledge of Anatomy with the knowledge of other medical subjects to provide optimum health services in the country and abroad.

Distribution of teaching – learning hours

Lecture	Tutorial	Practical (Histology)	Demonstration + dissection +Card exam	Total Teaching hours	Integrated teaching for phase I	Formative Exam		Summative exam
						Preparatory leave	Exam time	Preparatory leave	Exam time
115hrs	53 hrs	52 hrs	307 hrs	527hrs	30 hrs	21+14= 35 days	42 days	30days	30 days
(Time for exam, preparatory leave and formative & summative assessment is common for all subjects of the phase )

Faculties:

Teaching tools:

Well equipped Class room, Tutorial room, Dissection room, Lecture gallery, Histology room, & museum.
Study materials: Skeletons, Bones, cadaver, preserved specimen, models, light microscopes, flip charts, photographs, View boxes, X-ray films, CT scan and other imaging films, Laptop, Multimedia, projector, white board.

Teaching Methods

Large Group	Small Group	Self Learning
Lecture Integrated Teaching Seminar	Tutorial Practical Demonstration Dissection Problem solving	Assignment Self-Assessment Self-Study

Academic Calendar according to BM&DC MBBS Curriculum 2021

Academic Calendar For Session: 2023-2024