Download or read book Grays Anatomy For Students: First South Asia Edition-Ebook written by Raveendranath Veeramani and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.The language has been simplified to aid students who have studied in the vernacular. The original illustrations have been retained and few illustrations have been added. There are more figure numbers mentioned in the text to encourage students to refer to the illustrations while learning. The text has been made more student friendly by adding generalizations, classifications and summaries. There are useful review materials at the beginning of the chapters which include digital resources for self-study. This new edition includes innovative features such as set inductions, outlines for subchapters and flowcharts 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 IIwhich represent the “must know, desirable to know and nice to know content respectively.