Book Descriptions:

The First South Asian adaptation builds on the past and looks to the future. There is an emphasis on active learning by making the clinical relevance of anatomy explicit. Learning anatomy in context has been fostered by the association between anatomists and clinicians in keeping with the emerging integrated curriculum of the 21 st century. The language has been simplifi ed to aid students who have studied in the vernacular. The original illustrations have been retained and few illustrations have been added. There are more fi gure numbers mentioned in the text to encourage students to refer to the illustrations while learning. The text has been made more studentfriendly by adding generalizations, classifi cations and summaries. There are useful review materials at the beginning of the chapters which include digital resources for self-study. There are updates on imaging techniques to encourage students to appreciate the importance of an essential knowledge of the relevant anatomy to interpret images. Due emphasis has been laid on dissection. Several illustrations and fl owcharts have been added in order to simplify the anatomy of the cranial nerves. This new edition includes innovative features such as set inductions, outlines for subchapters and fl owcharts to facilitate learning. Set inductions are mostly clinical scenarios to create interest and emphasize the need to study anatomy for healthcare professions. The outlines are a modern multimodal facilitating approach to various topics. They empower students to be focussed and self directed while they explore the content. They include learning objectives and materials for review. The components of the outline encourage the student to be aware of the need to create solutions to clinical problems. The outlines help students direct their learning to recall facts, demonstrate and analyze relationships, use reason to explain concepts, appreciate the signifi cance of structures and their relationships and apply anatomical knowledge. The “structures to be identifi ed in a dissection are given as Level I, II and III which represent the “must know, desirable to know and nice to know content respectively. The fl owcharts have been added to get an overview of the course of a structure, recapitulate important details about structures, and as an aid to recall.




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