Anatomy Education in MBBS: Nepal’s Perspective and Challenges

Abstract

Although it is agreed that anatomy is the language of medicine, the 21st century medical curriculum has often shown to reduce the hours dedicated towards anatomy education. A medical school therefore should reevaluate its own curriculum what the students need to learn. Since anatomy is exposed to the students at the outset of a curriculum [1], medical schools, therefore, should be careful in planning students-directed anatomy objectives and how they are going to be delivered. This is important as the current pressure to reduce the hours devoted to learning anatomy may even complicate the entire planning [2,3].