History

The Anatomy, Histology and Embryology department  was established since 1967 AD, which coincides with the year of the inauguration of the Medical Authority, and was under the supervision of the Faculty of Science at that time, and after the college moved to its old headquarters in General Basra Hospital, the first nucleus of this department  was built in 1968, where a laboratory named at that time was built (Laboratory Multi-purpose) in which practical studies were carried out on anatomy, histology, physiology and biochemistry, and at the beginning of 1970 AD a special building was constructed for the anatomy, histology and embryology department and in 1979 AD The department  has moved to the Basra teaching hospital building. In the first years of its establishment, it was attached to the branch (the electron microscopy unit), which was subsequently dismantled from the department  in 1981 AD, to be supervised by Dr. (Abdul Razzaq Abboud Ali), a teacher in this branch. Now the department teaches the following subjects for students of the first and second years of the College of Medicine, University of Basra:
1) Human Anatomy 
2) Medical Biology
3) Embryology 
4) Histology