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Background: Academic achievement is considered as a key to judge one’s potentialities and capacities. Lowachievement may be related to poor self concept, lack of family involvement, damaging peer pressure, culturaldeprivation, study skill deficiency, emotional problems, physical illness, lack of academic motivation. Anatomyhas been considered a key element of medical education for centuries and has survived current challengingpedagogic test of time. The teaching hours of anatomy have been reduced but the traditional teaching predominatesand lacks integration and clinical correlate. As living and surface anatomy forms the bridge between clinicalpractice and gross anatomy; the reduced course hours compelled many medical institutes to upgrade thedevelopment of anatomical resources via new technological advancements and by inculcating living anatomysessions by peer examination, life models and imaging. Further evidence is needed to define which method ofanatomy teaching leads to the most effective clinicians and if the choice of method affects students. Peerphysical examination (PPE) was considered as one of the important and widely accepted teaching tool inconducting living and surface anatomy sessions. In the present study, PPE is used as a teaching tool to help lowachiever students to escalate their academic performance.Results: Two groups A and B are made of 25 each from 50 low achiever students. Five topics of living anatomywere taught with traditional method in group A and with PPE in group B. Then students were assessed byobjectively structured practical examination (OSPE) of both groups. There was statistically significant differencein scores of students in group A and group B.Conclusions: So we concluded that there is definitely an academic improvement in the low achiever students withthe use of PPE. But future studies are required to compare the findings presented here with those of other medicalcolleges. So that PPE can be included as a regular teaching tool to facilitate not only low achievers but all of thestudents for their academic enhancement and future goal of becoming competent and ideal clinician.