ANATOMY

ANATOMY

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Various sub-section in the Department: Gross Anatomy & Histology

(teaching staff rotated in these sections in all levels)

 

INFRASTRUCTURE:

  • Demonstration Rooms : 4
  • Accommodation (of each demonstration room)
  • Size – 6 x 6.2 = 37.2 m2, 6.2 x 12.5 = 77.5 m2, 6 x 12.5 = 75 m2, 12 x 6 = 72 m2
  • Sitting capacity – 75 each
  • Audio-visual equipment – available
  • Departmental Library-cum-Seminar Room – available
  • Separate departmental library: available

Accommodation

  • Size:   5.5 x 5.9 = 32.45 m2
  • Capacity:   20
  • Number of books in Anatomy and allied subjects: 539
  • List of Journals:   Available from Central Library

Dissection Hall            :
Accommodation :

  • Size: (12.5 x 33.5) m2   = 418.75m2
  • Capacity: 200 students
  • Number and arrangement of tables
  • Big: 25 tables in two rows
  • Small: 250 nos.
  • Hygiene and drainage facilities for disposal of discarded parts – available
  • Washing arrangement -available. No. of wash basins provided- 07
  • No. of lockers provided for students – 150
  • Light and exhaust arrangements – Adequate
  • Special Instruments other than routine Dissection sets, such as Electric saw, Meat cutting saw etc. – available
  • Extra Learning Aids provided in the Dissection Hall like Skeleton, Charts, Black Board etc.) –  available

Cadaver Preservation Facilities

  • Embalming room – Size: 12 x 6m2  located adjacent to dissection hall
  • Storage Tanks: 12, Size – 6’x 3’ x 3’ each
  • Cold room/cooling cabinets – 3 mortuary coolers in the embalming room
  • Size: 2’ x 4’ x 6’ each with a capacity of two bodies each
  • No. of Cadavers available – 6
  • No. of students allotted per cadaver – 28

Histology Laboratory

  • Size:  12 x18 m2 = 216 m2, Capacity – 40
  • Working arrangement-
  • Seats available – 2 long tables with revolving stools
  • Cupboard for storage of microscope slides: Available
  • Number of Microscopes with 1/3, 1/6, & 1/12 objectives: 230
  • (Mono-occular-224, binocular-3, Pentahead-3)
  • Number of students to each Microscope:  One
  • Preparation room
  • Size:  6 x12 m2 = 72 m2, located adjacent histology room
  • Laboratory Manuals – kept by students
  • Close circuit TV/Demonstration Microscope/any other teaching aids :
  • LCD/OHP-Slide projectors and Charts – available

 

Research Laboratory – One

  • Size – 6 x12 = 72 m2
  • Equipment: Microtome, Microscope , dehydration & staining equipments & associated instruments are available
  • Students taken for Post Graduation – Yes
  • Undergraduate students’ participation in research work – Under ICMR short term project

Museum:

  • Size:  (12 x12) m2 =144 m2
  • Specimens arranged region wise covering various fields in Anatomy
  • (140 Anatomy specimens in the Museum & 18 Embryology specimens in the model –cum- Anthropology Museum)
  • Catalogues of the specimens are available to the students
  • Gross Anatomy – adequate
  • Display of microscopic sections of developing tissues system wise are available
  • Microscopic sections of the specimens are available for study  to the students
  • Microscope & X-ray views boxes available to students in the Museum
  • (One binocular microscope, Four X- ray view box)
  • Bone, models, charts etc (Anthropology) – available
  • Radiological & specialized imaging exhibits – available
  • Number: 100
  • Type: Plain X-Ray, CT &M.RI plates
  • Charts, Skeletons: available
  • Seating arrangement for students Number : 30
  • Preparation, storage rooms, X-Ray room and dark room: available

Office accommodation

  • Professor and HOD – 1 room,
  • Associate Professors/Readers:  4 rooms
  • Asst. Professors/Lecturers – 3 rooms, Tutors/Demonstrators – 1 room
  • Non-teaching and clerical staff : Office room,
  • Technician room,
  • Artist cum modeller room

TEACHING PROGRAMME:

  • Curriculum of studies: as prescribed by MCI
  • Methodology
  • Duration of the entire course: One year
  • Didactics Lectures: Embryology- 50, Histology – 50,General Anatomy – 20,
  • Genetics- 10, CNS – 20, Cranial nerves – 20, Special.Senses – 20 = Total 190 Classes
  • Demonstrations: 40 hrs for each batch of 28 students
  • Tutorials: 40 hrs for each batch of 28 students
  • Seminars conducted during the year – 6 Seminars for each batch
  • Number of students attending each – 28 students
  • Practical- Dissection – 300 hrs, Histology – 50 hrs
  • Inter departmental Symposium and seminars are arranged
  • Integrated teaching done among three Pre-clinical Departments

Methods  of Assessment:

  • 6 PCT on practical and Theory
  • Semester ending  Examinations (Theory and Practical)
  • University examinations – 2 Theory papers 50 mark each,
  • Oral –20marks, Practical –40marks,
  • Internal assessments – 40 marks calculated from 6 PCT & 2 Semester ending examinations
  • (20 mark each both theory and practical),    Total – 200 marks

List of publications by the members of the staff during the last 3 years:

0th NATCON – ASI, 2012 Histological study of Adrenal gland in case of suicidal deaths

S.Patra, S.Rath, B.K.Dutta, Mishra.

G, Sahu R.K., Panda R.L., Prusti J.S.
60th NATCON – ASI, 2012 Sirenomelia : A rare case report

B.N.Roul, S.Rath, B.K.Dutta, J.S.Prusti
60th NATCON – ASI, 2012 Bilateral variation in the branching pattern of axillary artery

Patro S, Rath S, Mishra G, Sahu R.K., Panda R, Prusti S, Baa J., Patro S., Kumari B.S.
60th NATCON – ASI, 2012 A sign of Evolution : Absent Palmaris Longus

Baa J., Rath S., Naik M., Patra M., Mahapatra C., Sarangi C.L.
 61st NATCON – ASI, 2013 Comparative study on Cephalic index of mentally retarded children with normal children in southern Odish

Patro S., Rath S., Rath B., Sahu R.K.
61st NATCON – ASI, 2013 Tale of a missing tunnel – Congenital absence of carotid canal: a rare case report

Baa J., Rath S., Prusti J.S.
61st NATCON – ASI, 2013 Corelation between Annulo-Papillary distance and the Coronary Sulcus circumference

Patnaik M., Maharana P.C., Sahu R.K.
61st NATCON – ASI, 2013 A study of Neural tube defect spectrum – Iniencephaly, a case report

B.Shanta, Rath S., Panda R.L.
(IOSR – JDMS)  (2014) – Vol-13, PP 01-04 Neural Tube Defect: Epidemiologic and Demographic Implication

Dr. B.Shanta Kumari, Dr. Rajalaxmi Panda, Dr. Sadananda Rath
(IOSR – JDMS) (2014) – Vol-13 Study of cephalic index in southern Odisha population

Dr. Sunita Patro, Dr. RamaKristna Sahu, Dr. Sadananda Rath

Current problems on which research work is going on –

  • Effect of a food additive (Mentha piperita) on fertility in Wistar Albino rats – A Histo – morphological study- Dr. A. Soy, Prof. S. Rath
  • Barr body study: A diagnostic tool – Dr. J.S. Prusti
  • Femoral Tortion in cadaveric study – Dr. R. K. Sahu