Vision and Mission of Department of Anatomy 

Mission of the Department of Anatomy

The Department of Anatomy will provide high quality teaching of anatomical sciences to medical students and other students as needed.  The Department will conduct basic research and will foster an intellectual environment that encourages a sense of inquiry.  The Department will carry out its service responsibilities to the university and the southern Illinois region.  To help achieve these goals, the Department will maintain a working environment conducive to the professional and personal well-being of every member of the Department, and it will promote academic relationships with other colleges and departments that will help achieve the goals of teaching and research excellence.

Teaching: 
The Faculty in Anatomy support the Education Mission of the School of Medicine.  The Faculty will maintain expertise and provide instruction of Human Anatomy in the Problem Based Learning curriculum for first year medical students and other students as is appropriate.  The faculty will provide didactic teaching, lab apprenticeship, development and review of resource materials, curricular evaluation, small-group tutoring and other duties ancillary to curricular needs.  The human anatomy curriculum will include basic, applied, and clinical anatomy as well as introductions to diagnostic imaging, differential diagnosis, physical exam, surgery, and other components.  Faculty will provide impetus, instruction, challenge, and guidance regarding knowledge of the human body and its tissues both conceptually and through cadaveric and microscopic study.  Anatomy in the medical school curriculum offers a broad base of sub-disciplines comprised of practical and clinical gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, embryology, histology and cell biology across four curricular units that span the first year of medical school:  a Cardiovascular-Respiratory-Renal Unit (CRR); a Sensorimotor Systems and Behavior Unit (SSB); an Endocrine-Reproductive-Gastrointestinal Unit (ERG); and a Doctoring Unit (DU) 

Required Texts and Resources:

ANATOMY:

1. Richard: Grays Anatomy for students. Churchill livingstone, Philadelphia.
2. Snell, Richard: Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students. Little Brown and Co., Baltimore.
3. Romanes, G.J.: Cunningham’s Manual of Practical Anatomy, Vol. 1, 2 and 3. Oxford Medical Publications.

EMBRYOLOGY:

Sadler, T.W.: Langman’s, Medical Embryology Willliams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore.

Branches of the Department

– Human Anatomy

– Human Embryology

– Human Histology

– Human Biology

KEY FEATURES:

• Trains undergraduate Medical students
• Air-conditioned lecture theatres with full-fledged audio-visual units
• Integrated both horizontal and vertical teaching with other basic science and clinical disciplines
• Air-conditioned cadaveric dissection hall with LCD's for regular video demonstration of dissection classes
• Cadavers regularly stored in the especial storage with uninterrupted power supply
• Histology lab has the TV monitor connected to the microscope for demonstration of the microscopic slides
• Every student provided with a microscope and Histology slides for study during the practical classes
• Department equipped with research facilities for tissue culture and cytogenetics
• Anatomy Museum houses the best dissected specimens numbering more than 50 for students to revise on all days. 

Staff list

1. prof. nameer fadhel
2. Prof. shuker mohmmod
3. Lec. Durid hammid
4. lec. Hala yasin
5.   lec mostafa karim
6. lec zainab jasim