📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand vascular and appendicular anatomy by integrating Anatomy and Clinical concepts.
🔹 Anatomy
- Gross features of appendix
• Blood supply of appendix
• Mesentery of appendix
• Clinical correlates of appendix - Branches of abdominal aorta
• Course of celiac trunk
• Distribution of celiac trunk
• Course of superior mesenteric artery
• Distribution of superior mesenteric artery
• Course of inferior mesenteric artery
• Distribution of inferior mesenteric artery - Origin of inferior vena cava
• Course of inferior vena cava
• Tributaries of inferior vena cava
• Relations of inferior vena cava - Cisterna chyli
• Lymphatic drainage of abdominal organs.
