Brueggeman Mauri S, Swinehart Cheryl, Yue Mary Jane, Conway-Klaassen Janice M, Wiesner Stephen M
Center for Allied Health Programs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Clin Lab Sci. 2012 Summer;25(3):149-55.
In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of virtual microscopy as the primary mode of laboratory instruction in undergraduate level clinical hematology teaching. Distance education (DE) has become a popular option for expanding education and optimizing expenses but continues to be controversial. The challenge of delivering an equitable curriculum to distant locations along with the need to preserve our slide collection directed our effort to digitize the slide sets used in our teaching laboratories. Students enrolled at two performance sites were randomly assigned to either traditional microscopy (TM) or virtual microscopy (VM) instruction. The VM group performed significantly better than the TM group. We anticipate that this approach will play a central role in the distributed delivery of hematology through distance education as new programs are initiated to address workforce shortage needs.
在本研究中，我们评估了虚拟显微镜作为本科临床血液学教学中实验室教学主要模式的效果。远程教育已成为扩大教育范围和优化成本的一种流行选择，但仍存在争议。向偏远地区提供公平课程的挑战，以及保护我们的玻片收藏的需求，促使我们努力将教学实验室中使用的玻片集数字化。在两个教学点注册的学生被随机分配接受传统显微镜（TM）或虚拟显微镜（VM）教学。VM组的表现明显优于TM组。我们预计，随着新的项目启动以满足劳动力短缺需求，这种方法将在通过远程教育进行血液学的分布式教学中发挥核心作用。
