GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE, TIRUPPUR
DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Anatomy is concerned with one of the preclinical subjects – HUMAN ANATOMY which forms the cornerstone of medicine. Anatomy is inherently tied to embryology, comparative anatomy, evolutionary biology, and phylogeny, as these are the processes by which anatomy is generated over immediate (embryology) and long (evolution) timescales.
The aim is to prepare outstanding Health care professionals having Academic brilliance and practical understanding to provide excellent patient care. The Dissection Hall in our Institute perfectly fulfills the caption i.e., ‘Dead Teach the Living’.
The teaching faculties are not only efficient in teaching, but they are also equally good in research activities. Teaching is mainly student-centric and uses a mix of various methodologies for ensuring the achievement of the objectives in the knowledge, problem-solving, psychomotor and attitudinal domains.
All teaching faculty have regularly attended national and state level conferences, CMEs, symposiums, workshops and webinars from time to time with the purpose of upgrading and updating levels of academic awareness and excellence.
FACULTY
Professor and Head of the department: Dr. K. Rajeswari M S.,
Associate Professor: Dr. A. Thenmozhi MD.,
Assistant Professor: Dr. A. Subbulakshmi MD.,
Assistant Professor: Dr. N. Mythily MD.,
Tutor: Dr. K. Sangeetha MD.,
Tutor: Dr. J. Shanmugapriya Sindhuja MD.,
Tutor: Dr. S. Madhumalar MD.,
DISSECTION HALL
The department boasts of an impressive dissection hall .The Department has a large well-illuminated & cross-ventilated spacious dissection hall to accommodate 100 students. It has an attached cold storage room and embalming room. Ample cadavers are available for the students to dissect and have a real time experience. Other learning aids like dissected specimens, skeletons and bone sets are available in the lab. Instruments like drilling machine, meat cutting machine, embalming machines are available in the lab. It is neatly setup, clean and has a very hygienic dissection environment. The department takes great care in meticulously embalming and storing the cadavers. The cadavers are stored in tanks containing preservative fluids. An articulated skeleton is always present during dissection classes.
HISTOLOGY LAB:
Histology or microscopic anatomy is taught through lectures and practicals . The department has a well equipped histology lab with good quality microscopes. The lab has a seating capacity of 80 students. Separate cupboards are available for storing each microscope. Slides of various tissues and organs are available for study.
ANATOMY MUSEUM
The department takes immense pride and pleasure in possessing an extremely impressive museum. The museum contains articulated human skeletons, anatomical specimens and models and above all a fine collection of embryological specimens with birth defects. Different types of mounted wet specimens, dry specimens, Plaster of Paris, fiber 3D models, charts and radiological images are also available in the museum. Seating arrangements are made for 60 students. It is impressive that majority of models and specimens displayed in the museum are made by the staff and undergraduate students. MBBS students are permitted to avail the facilities of the museum during working hours. On request, facilities in the Anatomy Museum are made available for academic visits of students from schools and colleges around.
LIBRARY
There are 100+books with the latest edition on the subject along with National and International Journals.
Embalming is the process of chemically treating
the dead human body to reduce the presence
and growth of the microorganisms, to retard
organic decomposition and to restore acceptable
EMBALMING
Embalming is the process of chemically treating the dead human body to reduce the presence and growth of the microorganisms, to retard organic decomposition.
Here we preserve the dead bodies for the purpose of dissection.
Many types are available in embalming. We commonly follow arterial embalming.
Arterial embalming involves the injection of embalming chemicals into the blood vessels usually via the right femoral artery. The embalming solution is injected using an embalming machine and the embalmer massages the cadaver to ensure a proper distribution of the embalming fluid. In case of poor circulation , multiple injection points ( subcutaneous embalming ) is also performed.
Embalming is done for anatomical research and study purposes. The cadavers are always very well fixed so that they can be used for not only anatomical dissection but also research purposes.
VOLUNTARY BODY DONATION
Registration of the wish to be a body donor after death is possible at the anatomy department.
Voluntary body donation is the act of giving one body after demise for academic and research purposes.
Any adult can become a whole body donor. There is no upper age limit. Here we receive voluntary body donation as well as unclaimed bodies from the police personnel.
There is a constant need for whole bodies for teaching the healthcare professionals.
Voluntary body donation forms the back bone of cadaveric teaching and learning.
Body donation provides the students and medical researchers with un-paralleled opportunities to study the human body. Computers or books cannot totally replace body dissection in learning the anatomy.
WORLD ANATOMY DAY:
The world anatomy day was celebrated as ANAT ARTISANZZ 2022 on October 15th, 2022.
Budding doctors expressed their Embryological and Anatomical talents in magnificent manner.
MODEL MAKING COMPETITION
CHART MAKING COMPETITION
Anatomy is the foundation in integrating basic and clinical scientific knowledge. It emphasizes in introducing a greater clinical focus in basic science. This teaching may help to bridge the gap between basic science and clinical practice. Hence ANATOMY plays a pivot role for the upliftment of the career of the future budding doctors.
