Application and evaluation of teaching practical histology with the use of virtual microscopy

Dimitrolos Krajčí,Běla Erdösová,Eva Pospíšilová,Radka Lichnovská,Drahomíra Černochová

doi:10.1186/1746-1596-8-s1-s7

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Journal: Diagnostic Pathology	Publication Date: Sep 1, 2013
Citations: 8	License type: cc-by

Affiliation: Palacký University, Olomouc

Abstract

Virtual slides provide many benefits over observation of classical glass histology slides. We have developed an electronic teaching system of histology practical in a networked classroom of 30 student’s computers and one teacher's. The teacher's PC (personal computer) runs our own database of histology practical designed in MS Excel format that contains virtual slides organized into thematic sessions. The virtual slides are complemented with supporting documents and other explanatory visuals. A PC-based testing of identification of structures in histology slides has also been introduced.

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Emerging digital microscopy technology and newly developed scanning light microscopy systems enable histologists to transfer analog image data of entire slides into digital ones, and to provide them to students in the class with identical contents and quality [1,2]
Material and methods Glass histology slides have been scanned with Olympus dotSlide scanning system creating thousands of overlapping images saved in a proprietary file format
Evaluation of practical sessions with virtual slides Students of histology practical classes readily accepted the use of computers for observation of virtual slides

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Introduction

Emerging digital microscopy technology and newly developed scanning light microscopy systems enable histologists to transfer analog image data of entire slides into digital ones, and to provide them to students in the class with identical contents and quality [1,2]. We have recently started a major innovation of our system of practical teaching using e-learning methods of delivery of high quality histology virtual slides and supporting documents [3]. We have created our own teaching environment in a computer-equipped and networked classroom dedicated to histology practical sessions. This method of teaching has been complemented with electronic in-course and final assessments of student’s theoretical and practical knowledge and skills

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