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Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school
Objectives: Several medical and dental schools have described their experience in the transition from conventional to digital microscopy in the teaching of general pathology and histology disciplines; however, this transitional process has scarcely been reported in the teaching of oral pathology. Th...
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Medicina Oral S.L.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25129250 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.19863 |
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author | Fonseca, Felipe-Paiva Santos-Silva, Alan-Roger Lopes, Márcio-Ajudarte de Almeida, Oslei-Paes Vargas, Pablo- Agustin |
author_facet | Fonseca, Felipe-Paiva Santos-Silva, Alan-Roger Lopes, Márcio-Ajudarte de Almeida, Oslei-Paes Vargas, Pablo- Agustin |
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description | Objectives: Several medical and dental schools have described their experience in the transition from conventional to digital microscopy in the teaching of general pathology and histology disciplines; however, this transitional process has scarcely been reported in the teaching of oral pathology. Therefore, the objective of the current study is to report the transition from conventional glass slide to virtual microscopy in oral pathology teaching, a unique experience in Latin America. Study Design: An Aperio ScanScope® scanner was used to digitalize histological slides used in practical lectures of oral pathology. The challenges and benefits observed by the group of Professors from the Piracicaba Dental School (Brazil) are described and a questionnaire to evaluate the students’ compliance to this new methodology was applied. Results: An improvement in the classes was described by the Professors who mainly dealt with questions related to pathological changes instead of technical problems; also, a higher interaction with the students was described. The simplicity of the software used and the high quality of the virtual slides, requiring a smaller time to identify microscopic structures, were considered important for a better teaching process. Conclusions: Virtual microscopy used to teach oral pathology represents a useful educational methodology, with an excellent compliance of the dental students. Key words:Digital microscopy, virtual microscopy, dental education, virtual slides, oral pathology. |
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spelling | pubmed-43204162015-02-13 Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school Fonseca, Felipe-Paiva Santos-Silva, Alan-Roger Lopes, Márcio-Ajudarte de Almeida, Oslei-Paes Vargas, Pablo- Agustin Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal Research Objectives: Several medical and dental schools have described their experience in the transition from conventional to digital microscopy in the teaching of general pathology and histology disciplines; however, this transitional process has scarcely been reported in the teaching of oral pathology. Therefore, the objective of the current study is to report the transition from conventional glass slide to virtual microscopy in oral pathology teaching, a unique experience in Latin America. Study Design: An Aperio ScanScope® scanner was used to digitalize histological slides used in practical lectures of oral pathology. The challenges and benefits observed by the group of Professors from the Piracicaba Dental School (Brazil) are described and a questionnaire to evaluate the students’ compliance to this new methodology was applied. Results: An improvement in the classes was described by the Professors who mainly dealt with questions related to pathological changes instead of technical problems; also, a higher interaction with the students was described. The simplicity of the software used and the high quality of the virtual slides, requiring a smaller time to identify microscopic structures, were considered important for a better teaching process. Conclusions: Virtual microscopy used to teach oral pathology represents a useful educational methodology, with an excellent compliance of the dental students. Key words:Digital microscopy, virtual microscopy, dental education, virtual slides, oral pathology. Medicina Oral S.L. 2015-01 2014-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4320416/ /pubmed/25129250 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.19863 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Medicina Oral S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Fonseca, Felipe-Paiva Santos-Silva, Alan-Roger Lopes, Márcio-Ajudarte de Almeida, Oslei-Paes Vargas, Pablo- Agustin Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school |
title | Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the
teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school |
title_full | Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the
teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school |
title_fullStr | Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the
teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school |
title_full_unstemmed | Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the
teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school |
title_short | Transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the
teaching of oral pathology in a Brazilian dental school |
title_sort | transition from glass to digital slide microscopy in the
teaching of oral pathology in a brazilian dental school |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25129250 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.19863 |
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