Department of Anatomy:

The department of Anatomy of Chittagong  Medical College is one of the oldest department  which started its activity since 1957 when the college was established. It is a center of excellence for learning anatomy, histology and embryology. In this department there is one professor, two assistant professors, one curator, twelve lecturers. It is one of the most spacious and well-equipped department. There are both under-graduate like MBBS and BDS and postgraduate MD, MS, M. Phil and diploma courses. Post graduate courses has been started since July-2002. Anatomy is an essential basic subject for all of these courses. BDS course has been started since January, 2012. Academic service includes teaching MBBS students in 1st and 2nd year and BDS 1st year & paper-I of part-I of all disciplines of MD, MS, Diploma courses. Every year five students are admitted in the M.Phil Anatomy course. The department has carried out thesis works in collabation with Forensic Medicine & Gynaecology department of Chittagong Medical College and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. Well-equipped museum, histology laboratory is available in this department. Computer loaded with digital atlas of histology software is used for large scale teaching.

The Anatomy museum contains various teaching collections like original skeleton and models of different organs. It exhibits different preserved organs (normal & anomalous) & dead body with various human body systems and helps them to cerrelate with their learning. Histology laboratory provides all facilities for microscopic tissue preparation. It is equipped with 80 different types (monocular & binocular) of light microscopes. Multiheaded microscope is also available for teaching post graduate students. The laboratory is decorated with large number of microscopic figures.