AVMC – Aarupadai Veedu Medical College & Hospital

Department Of
Anatomy

DISSECTION HALL

  • Capacity of accommodation -250 students.
  • Provided with 30 large & 5 small cadaver tables.
  • Well-ventilated with exhaust fans.
  • There is an ante-room for students with lockers & adequate washbasins.
  • There are adequate teaching aids in the hall (blackboard, charts, skeleton and models).
  • Adequate audiovisual aids with battery backup support and movie camera are fitted with
  • LCD projector for demonstration of specimens.

HISTOLOGY LAB

  • Capacity of accommodation -75 students 
  • Provided with 6 cabinets for histology slides (each cabinet can accommodate 1000).
  • Adequate microscopes and stained histology slides are available for all students.
  • Each table is provided with wall-mounted television for demonstration of histology slides through computer-assisted microscope.

DEMONSTRATION ROOM

  • Total number of rooms -2 
  • Capacity of accommodation for each -75 students
  • Adequate audiovisual aid is also available.

MUSEUM

  • Provided with racks and shelves for storing and proper display of around 300 wet and dry specimens, embryological sections and models.
  • Revolving stands for skiagrams, CT scan, MRI 
  • 8 X-ray view boxes & 3 X-ray rotational view boxes with six faces of size 18x36inch are available (3 view boxes for 150 students). 
  • Adequate seating accommodation for 35 students to study in the museum is also available.

RESEARCH LAB

  • Well equipped with the microtome, hot bath, fridge, incubator and distilled water unit.
  • Necessary chemicals are available for staining
  • Plastination unit is started as a part of it

EMBALMING AND COLD STORAGE ROOM

  • Provided with 3 cadaver cement tanks of size 7ftx4ft and 2 fibre tanks of size 8.5ftx4.5ft.
  • 2 Embalming machines & the embalming stage are also available.

SPECIAL/ SERVICE LAB

  • Embryology lab
  • Anthropometric lab

LIBRARY

  • Number of books – 413
  • Number of journals- 80
  • Number of ejournals – Proquest medical database (E-Portal) link is provided for remote access
  • Educational videos – 8