Anatomy

The Departmental Credo

Department of Anatomy

The ambience of the G.M. Kurulkar museum at once suggests to even a freshman that here is where he could, if he so wished, study 'Anatomy for Anatomy's sake' and do away with the aphorism - 'Anatomy must always serve as a hand maid of clinical Medicine'. We see student interest spanning a wide range, between these two extreme points of view. At the undergraduate level, however, students are encouraged to focus on the application to which their knowledge of Anatomy is going to be put in clinical medicine. But, for the teenage student who first enters Medical College, the pursuit of 'Anatomy for Anatomy's sake' is no easy task, particularly in the presence of strong peer pressure, to take the straight and easy course, to cram the facts and get past the examiners. Indeed, the average student distinguishes two distinct types of 'study' - Study for exams, and study for its own sake, always feeling torn between, & never quite able to reconcile the two. Indeed, the average student distinguishes two distinct types of 'study' - Study for exams, and study for its own sake, always feeling torn between, & never quite able to reconcile the two.

What we are deeply aware of is, we have tender, bright minds to nurture and help grow and all our efforts are directed towards carrying through this great responsibility. It is our privilege to oversee our teenage students living through perhaps the most trying time of their lives.

It is our endeavour to make each student feel a sense of intellectual comfort in these halls, where the mind is free, to roam at will, explore, and yet come home to find solace in values and principles that are timeless & unchanging. One of the modes of achieving this is active participation in a seminar or case discussion by a team of students under the stewardship of a teacher. The seminar topics deal with some very comprehensive subject, which allows students to do lateral thinking. The case discussion are based on clinical cases seen by the students in Medical, Surgical, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Orthopedics, Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics, Urology, ENT, Ophthalmology ward / OPD. The anatomical basis for each are highlighted by the students. The case discussion buttresses the applied anatomy learning. Besides learning about the subject, these activities give a boost to students in their ability to speak, face audience, creativity, art, use of audio-visual aids and most important the art of experiencing of joy in working as a group.

It is a very simple philosophy that directs our efforts - that we must catalyze the development of each of our students, that s/he may attain his/her potential to the fullest - as a student, a physician and a human being.