1. The department has fully functional subspecialities of Gross Anatomy, Imaging Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, Histology (Microanatomy), Reproductive Biology, Teratology, Cytogenetics and Tissue Culture and Embryology.
2. A lot of work on prenatal sex determination and chromosomal aberrations in various cases attending out patient and in patient departments of the university has been undertaken in the Cytogenetics and Tissue Culture Lab for over 25 years.
3. Over these years about 255 research papers have been published.
4. The Anatomical Society of the Department, founded in 1950, is an educational society engaged in a number of curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Students are engaged in its administration and activities. To encourage student participation several prizes are awarded. The Anatomical Society of CSMMU is affiliated to the Anatomical Society of India and its U. P. Chapter.

Addition of new facilities for teaching:
72 large normal CT images on plates, which are well labeled, are displayed in the Dissection Hall. Recently MRI Gallery has been established; in which about 100 enlarged MRI images of normal human anatomy are displayed. These images are very useful for teaching cross sectional anatomy to the undergraduate and postgraduate students. Histology and Radiological Anatomy teaching through CD on LCD projector.