The excellent museum spread over 235 sq.mt., exhibits more than 100 dissected cadaveric and foetal specimens. The museum also displays sections of human body, radiographs, human skeletons, radiographs and developmental anatomy models. The museum collection is presented in several sections, e.g. Head and Neck, Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis, Limbs, Sectional anatomy, Nervous system and Embryology. New specimens and models are continuously added to the collection. Presently, genuine efforts are being made to promote the museum as a lively source of interaction for health science students and also the public.
The 345 sq mt. clean and brightly-lit, hall ensures adequate space for more than 150students at a time. The excellent cadaver preservation facilities include cold cabinets which can accommodate 8 cadavers. Formalin tanks for cadaver preservation and wash area is also available. Moreover, well preserved specimens of all parts of the human body are easily available to the students. The teaching-learning process is enhanced by normal X-ray, MRI, CT scan images and embryology models. The individual bones and articulated skeletons are also made accessible to the students during working hours. The dissection hall is well equipped with anthropometric instruments, X-ray view boxes and instruments essential for preparation of anatomical specimens, e.g. band saw, circular saw, brain knife etc.
Two demonstration rooms, each of 60 sq. mts.,accommodating 75 students and equipped with appropriate audio visual aids, add to the teaching ambience of the department.
The department has a fully equipped histology unit spread over an area of 225 sq.mt. which can accommodate 90 students at a time. Students are provided with individual microscopes and slides during routine practical classes and a binocular microscope with CCTV attachment for the projection of slides for teaching. Colored charts of labelled microanatomy sections of all tissues are displayed for students for reference during the routine practical sessions. The lab is also well equipped with tissue processing instruments, e.g. paraffin embedding bath, incubator, microtome etc. to make slides for teaching purposes.
Bodies received from appropriate sources after due processes are embalmed in this 17 sq. mts. room equipped with two embalming machines before being transferred to the storage tanks.
Three storage tanks of 3, 3 and 2 sq. mts. respectively are used for the storage of the embalmed bodies, namely, the cadavers. The number of cadavers will be proportionate to the number of students.150 lockers for storing student belongings during dissection hours are provided in the Anatomy Dissection Hall corridor. Research Lab is equipped with the instruments needed for the research activity in various fields of Anatomy like Gross anatomy , embryology, histology, genetics, etc..
The departmental library consists of an excellent collection of books on life sciences. In addition to a series of basic and standard reference books in gross anatomy, histology, embryology, neuroanatomy, it also has vast collection of books from physiology, biochemistry, medicine, surgery, paediatrics, radiology, gynaecology etc. This facilitates the learning of clinical anatomy correlation with other clinical areas.
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