Turning Microscopy in the Medical Curriculum Digital: Experiences from The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen

TY - JOUR

T1 - Turning Microscopy in the Medical Curriculum Digital

T2 - Experiences from The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen

AU - Vainer, Ben

AU - Mortensen, Niels Werner

AU - Poulsen, Steen Seier

AU - Sørensen, Allan Have

AU - Olsen, Jørgen

AU - Saxild, Hans Henrik

AU - Johansen, Flemming Fryd

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Familiarity with the structure and composition of normal tissue and an understanding of the changes that occur during disease is pivotal to the study of the human body. For decades, microscope slides have been central to teaching pathology in medical courses and related subjects at the University of Copenhagen. Students had to learn how to use a microscope and envisage three-dimensional processes that occur in the body from two-dimensional glass slides. Here, we describe how a PathXL virtual microscopy system for teaching pathology and histology at the Faculty has recently been implemented, from an administrative, an economic, and a teaching perspective. This fully automatic digital microscopy system has been received positively by both teachers and students, and a decision was made to convert all courses involving microscopy to the virtual microscopy format. As a result, conventional analog microscopy will be phased out from the fall of 2016.

AB - Familiarity with the structure and composition of normal tissue and an understanding of the changes that occur during disease is pivotal to the study of the human body. For decades, microscope slides have been central to teaching pathology in medical courses and related subjects at the University of Copenhagen. Students had to learn how to use a microscope and envisage three-dimensional processes that occur in the body from two-dimensional glass slides. Here, we describe how a PathXL virtual microscopy system for teaching pathology and histology at the Faculty has recently been implemented, from an administrative, an economic, and a teaching perspective. This fully automatic digital microscopy system has been received positively by both teachers and students, and a decision was made to convert all courses involving microscopy to the virtual microscopy format. As a result, conventional analog microscopy will be phased out from the fall of 2016.

KW - Journal Article

U2 - 10.4103/2153-3539.201919

DO - 10.4103/2153-3539.201919

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 28382225

SN - 2229-5089

VL - 8

JO - Journal of Pathology Informatics

JF - Journal of Pathology Informatics

M1 - 11

ER -