ANATOMY CURRICULUM DELIVERY TRADITIONAL VS MODULAR (INTEGRATED) BASIS

Background:The main objective to introduce the anatomy in the medical profession is aims at providing com-prehensive knowledge of the gross and microscopic structure and development of human body and to providea basis for understanding the clinical correlation of organs or structures involved and the anatomical basis forthe disease presentations. Since the decades right from the birth of medicine to till now anatomyis consid-ered as a core subject and its knowledge is very essential to get into the medical profession.As perthe veryrecent updates in medical curriculum, tremendous changes were taken place in the delivery of anatomycur-riculum especially to the undergraduate students, curriculum delivery gradually changing towards thetradi-tional (Regional) to the modular basis (Integrated).This paper aims to differentiate the various fitfalls in thetraditional and modular delivery of the curriculum especially in relation to anatomy.