National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Anal Cell Pathol (Amst). 2012;35(1):31-6. doi: 10.3233/ACP-2011-0024.
Medical education in pathology and histology in low-resource countries face many obstacles because of equipment cost and telecommunication deficiencies. Digital Pathology may provide solutions. We report student experience to virtual slides on a local network and a remote image server.
Using an iPad tablet device, fifty 3rd and 4th year medical students viewed digital pathology slides from a Web server at the National Library of Medicine and a mirror server on the local network.
The quality of images from both servers was found to be satisfactory, but the local server was deemed faster and preferred by the participants in this study (p < 0.005).
Virtual slides on a local network server may provide solutions to equipment and technical obstacles and could enhance student learning in developing countries.
由于设备成本和通信缺陷，资源匮乏国家的病理学和组织学医学教育面临诸多挑战。数字病理学可能提供了解决方案。我们报告了学生在本地网络和远程图像服务器上使用虚拟幻灯片的体验。
使用 iPad 平板电脑，五十名三、四年级医学生从国家医学图书馆的 Web 服务器和本地网络上的镜像服务器查看数字病理学幻灯片。
来自两个服务器的图像质量都令人满意，但本地服务器的速度更快，被参与本研究的人员认为更优（p < 0.005）。
本地网络服务器上的虚拟幻灯片可能为解决设备和技术障碍提供了方案，并能加强发展中国家学生的学习。
