📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage

This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand the gross structure, microscopic organization and functional properties of the heart by integrating Anatomy, Histology and Physiology.

🔹 Anatomy

• Describe the surface marking of the heart
• Describe the surface marking of the heart valves
• Illustrate the surface marking of the aorta on models / X-rays
• Describe the surface marking of the superior vena cava
• Describe the surface marking of the inferior vena cava
• Describe the gross structure of the heart

🔹 Histology

• Explain the characteristics of cardiac muscle cell
• Explain the structure of intercalated disc
• Define the junctional specializations making up the intercalated disc
• Describe identification of different microscopic views of cardiac muscle and its ultra-structures
• Differentiate histologically between cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle
• Enumerate histological layers of heart wall

🔹 Physiology

• Explain the physiologic anatomy of the cardiac muscle
• Describe the properties of the cardiac muscle