• Extensive revision of each chapter as per the basis on scientific advancement and subject requirement.
• Revised as per the Competency Based Undergraduate Medical Curriculum and ensured coverage of all the competencies.
• Enriched text with additional new line diagrams, clinical photographs, ultrasonographs, flowcharts, and tables to facilitate greater
retention of knowledge.
• Clinical correlations integrated in the text, highlighting practical application of embryological facts have been modified extensively.
• Additional information of higher academic value presented in a simplified manner in N.B. to make it more interesting for readers.
• Embryological events relevant to prenatal diagnostic and surgical procedures are clinically correlated throughout the text.
• Patient-oriented case studies/problems, and their embryological and genetic basis are presented at the end of each chapter for
problem-based learning in clinical situations.
• Golden facts to remember are useful for the candidates appearing in various entrance examinations like PGME, USMLE, PLAB, etc.
• Addition of new chapters on Basic Processes of Development and Their Molecular Regulation; Teratology/Birth Defects; Prenatal Diagnosis, and Fetal Therapy.
• Weekely organization of developmental events up to 8th week of development.
