ABSTRACT
Background: Teaching medical students the subject of Anatomy has always been a challenging task. This studywas conducted to understand the student’s perspective of the various methodologies of teaching and learning inAnatomy.Materials and methods: This study was done in Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai. In this studya questionnaire was prepared, where in there were 12 questions, which was circulated to the MBBS students of1st year and second year. The questionnaire had questions as to which modality of teaching gives betterunderstanding of Anatomy. The results obtained were tabulated.Results: The results showed that cadaveric dissection gave better understanding. A power point presentation ona topic followed by dissection of same topic was well appreciated. Students preferred small group teaching withwet and dry specimens to didactic lectures using power point. A good feedback was obtained for problem basedlearning also.Conclusion/ Implication: After analyzing the observations it can be concluded that small group teaching in theform of cadaveric dissection or demonstration is the method which the students feel is best to understandAnatomy. Problem based learning also has conferred a lot of advantages in making the students analyze andcorrelate Anatomy with its clinical implications. The modern methods of teaching anatomy in lecture hall withpower point presentation or virtual anatomy is only a supportive method to understand anatomy.