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Department of Anatomy

KMC , Mangalore
Health Sciences

The Department of Anatomy at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, under Manipal Academy of Higher Education, is a teaching and research department serving undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral learners. It provides foundational training in gross anatomy, osteology, histology, embryology, comparative anatomy, and radiographic anatomy to medical, dental, physiotherapy, audiology and speech-language pathology, and allied-health students. Student-centred teaching is supported by cadaveric dissection, microscopy, museum-based learning, audio-visual resources, self-learning modules, student mentoring, and supervised research. The department also conducts postgraduate training in Anatomy and supports doctoral research, voluntary body donation, and collaborative eye-donation activities.

Highlights

  • Provides anatomy teaching to first-year medical, dental, physiotherapy, audiology and speech-language pathology, and allied-health undergraduates.
  • Offers postgraduate programmes in MD Anatomy and MSc Anatomy and supports doctoral research leading to a PhD.
  • Maintains core academic strengths in gross anatomy, osteology, histology, embryology, comparative anatomy, and radiographic anatomy.
  • Uses student-centred teaching methods designed to develop anatomical knowledge, problem-solving ability, practical skills, and professional attitudes.
  • Operates a spacious dissection laboratory accommodating approximately 275 students, with an attached cold-storage room and embalming room.
  • Has an air-conditioned histology laboratory accommodating approximately 150 students and equipped with binocular, trinocular, and dissection microscopes.
  • Maintains an anatomy museum with wet and dry specimens, models, charts, and radiological images arranged for region-wise learning.
  • The department’s extended profile reports a collection of approximately 500 museum specimens, charts, and models and a departmental library with more than 500 reference books. These figures should be reconfirmed before publication because the page does not state when they were last updated.
  • Encourages undergraduate and postgraduate students to undertake short-term research projects, dissertations, conference presentations, and doctoral work.
  • Develops self-learning and e-learning modules in Anatomy for student use.
  • Faculty members participate in teaching-development and research-methodology programmes within and outside the university.
  • Runs a structured voluntary body-donation programme and collaborates with the Department of Ophthalmology in promoting eye donation.
  • Supports students through KMC Mangalore’s Teacher Guardian mentoring system, under which faculty members guide small groups in their academic and overall development.
  • The department reports consistently high university examination results and states that its faculty received the TMA Pai Gold Medal for Best Research on two occasions. These historical achievements should be dated or verified before publication.