Stereology and Electron Microscopy Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Anat Sci Educ. 2013 May-Jun;6(3):182-90. doi: 10.1002/ase.1336. Epub 2012 Nov 26.
Understanding tissue architecture and the morphological characteristics of cells is a central prerequisite to comprehending the basis of physiological tissue function in healthy individuals and relating this to disease states. Traditionally, medical curricula include courses where students examine glass slides of cytological or tissue samples under a light microscope. However, it is challenging to implement group and peer group learning in these courses and to give students sufficient time to study specimens. An increasing number of medical schools have thus started to implement digital slide viewers, so-called virtual microscopes, in histology and histopathology. These websites are mostly based on standard commercial software and offer limited adaptation to the special needs of first-year students. An e-learning platform has therefore been developed for use in cytology and histology courses. This virtual microscopy tool is coupled to a central database in which students can label and store the positions of individual structures for later repetition. As learning in pairs and peer groups has been shown to provide a high learning outcome, identified structures can be shared and discussed with students' peers or faculty via a built-in communication module. This website has the possibility of opening an arbitrary number of frames which all can actively be moved and changed in magnification to enable the comparison of specimens and thus encourage a more global understanding of related tissues. HistoViewer is thus suggested as an e-learning tool combining several modern teaching concepts.
了解组织架构和细胞的形态特征是理解健康个体生理组织功能基础并将其与疾病状态相关联的核心前提。传统上，医学课程包括学生在光学显微镜下检查细胞学或组织样本的载玻片的课程。然而，在这些课程中实施小组和同伴小组学习并为学生提供足够的时间来研究标本具有挑战性。因此，越来越多的医学院开始在组织学和组织病理学中实施数字幻灯片查看器，即所谓的虚拟显微镜。这些网站大多基于标准商业软件，并且对一年级学生的特殊需求的适应性有限。因此，已经开发了一个用于细胞学和组织学课程的电子学习平台。这种虚拟显微镜工具与一个中央数据库耦合，学生可以在其中标记和存储单个结构的位置，以便以后重复使用。由于已经证明成对学习和同伴学习可以提供更高的学习成果，因此可以通过内置的通信模块共享和讨论学生的同伴或教师识别出的结构。该网站可以打开任意数量的框架，所有框架都可以主动移动和改变放大倍数，以比较标本，从而鼓励对相关组织有更全面的了解。因此，HistoViewer 被建议作为一种电子学习工具，结合了几种现代教学理念。
