A Review of Presentations in the National Conferences of the Anatomical Society of India in the Last Twenty Five Years from 1984 to 2008

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to analyze the presentations in the National Conferences of the Anatomical Society of India over a period of twenty five years. These paper presentations in the conferences were obtained from the proceedings of the conferences published in Journal of Anatomical Society of India for a period of 25 years from 1983 to 2008. The presentations were categorized using various criteria. Nearly four thousand papers have been presented in various national conferences during the study duration. A remarkable increase was observed in average number of presentations per year. The number of interdepartmental and inter-institutional projects have also steadily increased. The average number of case reports presented has escalated from 17/year in the first decade of study period to 96/year in the last five years. This has occurred at the expense of the original studies of all subject categories. This fact along with predominance of certain states/institutes into the research arena and reduction in proportion of animal and experimental studies needs urgent attention of our scientific community.The present attempt is expected to bring forth the strengths and deficiencies of our scientific endeavor and provide directions for the future.