It is now poised to serve as a unique textbook after the inclusion of competencies in human osteology. The book has been thoroughly revised as per the latest CBME Guidelines | Competency Based Undergraduate Curriculum for the Indian Medical Graduate.
Addition of chapter entitled `Bony Landmarks in Human Body` makes this book further useful. Competency based literature has been captioned properly for an in-depth perusal by the students. This edition of the book now fully meets the academic requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate students of medical sciences.
Nafis Ahmad Faruqi MBBS, MS is former Professor, Department of Anatomy, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He completed his MBBS (1976) and MS in Anatomy (1981) from the same college. He has 40 years experience of teaching anatomy. His special areas of research are neuroanatomy, microanatomy, morphometry, histomorphometry and fetal anatomy. He has to his credit more the 110 papers published in both national and international journals. He has supervised many postgraduate candidates in anatomy and participated in several conferences and research courses, and delivered a large number of invited lectures. Owing to his exceptionally bright academic career he was offered membership of New York Academy of Sciences in 1997 and awarded Man of the Year in 2002 by American Biological Institute. Besides this, he is author of four other textbooks dedicated to medical and dental students. Manual of Practical Anatomy,2/edn (in 3 vols) Handbook of Osteology, 3/edn Osteology for Dental Students, 3/edn Self Assessment in Human Anatomy
