Following the establishment of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal as a private enterprise in 1953, the department of Anatomy started functioning from the academic year 1953–54. Postgraduate training programme leading to MD in Anatomy was introduced in 1977.

The department is actively involved in training the undergraduate students during their early years of medicine and aids to establish a strong foundation.

The department is constantly involved in exploring and implementing newer teaching-learning pedagogies that enhances the process of learning. The department also focusses on conducting good quality research and has undertaken various projects funded by several national and International agencies such as the ICMR, DST, DBT to name a few.

The department is furnished with a team of dedicated and enthusiastic faculty who are constantly involved in honing their knowledge and skills related to Anatomy teaching and research.

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In addition to the constantly updated teaching-learning practices and good quality research, the department also offer the following:

·        State-of-the- art museum (MUSEUM of Anatomy and Pathology) open for the general public. Excellent learning materials to the aspiring postgraduates. (For more details, please click this link:

https://manipal.edu/kmc-manipal/kmc-experience/manipal-museum-of-anatomy-and-pathology.html

·        Histological slides preparation

·        Plastination of the specimens

·        3D printing

The department has handled various research projects funded by national and international agencies.

1.   Ashwija Shetty, Sushma Prabhath, Kurian Alappatt, Lalu Krishna KN, Nandini Bhat, Suhani Sumalatha. Lateral collateral ligament and anterolateral ligament of the knee – A morphological analysis with orthopedic significance. The Knee 2021;28:202-206.ISSN 0968-0160.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2020.12.002. (Q1)

2.   Arvind Kumar Pandey, Sushma Prabhath, Kirtana R. Nayak, Lydia Andrade, Krishnananda Prabhu, Veena Nayak, Sneha G. Kalthur. One-month long foundation course for newly joined Indian medical undergraduates: Faculty and students' perspective. Medical Journal Armed Forces India 2021;77(1):S146-S156. ISSN 0377-1237, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mjafi.2021.01.002. (Q2)

3.   Devaraja K, Punja R, Kalthur SG, Pujari K. Unmapped landmarks around branches of superior laryngeal nerve; an exploratory cadaveric study. J Taibah Univ Med Sci. Jan 2021

4.   LS Andrade, JJ Joseph, NP Bhat, A Shetty, SG Kaltur, LC Prasanna. A histological study on the tendons at chiasma plantare in pes cavus. Morphologie, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.morpho.2020.09.003 (Q2)

5.   D Souza A, Kotian SR, Pandey AK, Rao P, Kalthur SG. Cadaver as a first teacher: A module to learn the ethics and values of cadaveric dissection. Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences 202015(2), pp. 94-101 (Q2)

https://eprints.manipal.edu/view/subjects/ANAT.html

The centers affiliated to the Department of Anatomy:

Centre for Molecular Neurosciences

Coordinator: Dr. Dinesh Upadhyaya, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, KMC, Manipal

Center for Clinical Anthropometry

Coordinator: Dr. Chandni Gupta, Additional Professor, Department of Anatomy, KMC, Manipal

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Address: 

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email                : anatomy@manipal.edu

phone number  : +91- 820- 2922327