Case 1.
Diagnosis: NEGATIVE FOR INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION OR MALIGNANCY.CANDIDA SPECIES PRESENT. MILD REACTIVE CHANGE.
https://www.rcpa.edu.au/Library/eCases/Anatomical-Pathology/19TP/19TP080
Case 2
Diagnosis: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
https://www.rcpa.edu.au/Library/eCases/Anatomical-Pathology/17CYT/17CYT0101
Case 3
Diagnosis: Metastatic ovarian carcinoma
https://www.rcpa.edu.au/Library/eCases/Anatomical-Pathology/17CYT/17CYT0066
Screening and reaching a diagnosis using digital cytology is slower than glass slides.1 Proficiency and speed comes with practice.1
Practice tests, spaced recall and teaching others are three highly effective learning strategies.2 Practice with identical software.
Supervisors need to know how to make and share practice sets of digital cytology slides for trainees.
In this series of short videos, we show you where to find Sectra cytology slides, keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation, and how to make and share practice slide sets.
To open the table of contents for each video, click to open the video, then watch on YouTube by clicking the ‘YouTube’ icon on the bottom right menu bar of the video. In YouTube, the table of contents is in the description section below the video. Click ‘show more’ to view the entire table of contents with clickable timestamps.
References
Resources
Sectra shortcuts printable cheat sheet pdf
Charlton van Es. Practice for speed and proficiency using Sectra Poster .pdf
‘How to’ video guides, links and resources for creating your own e-learning content.
Created by 3 anatomical pathologists involved in medical education.
Dr Amanda Charlton LabPLUS Auckland Hospital, and University of Auckland, NZ.
Dr Min En Nga, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Dr Diane Kenwright University of Otago, Wellington, NZ.
Most of us know how to use PowerPoint shapes to draw block diagrams with circles and rectangles, or add an arrow or text box, but what about drawing the free form shapes we encounter in Pathology?
Min En Nga shows us how to draw and colour free form solid shapes using the curve tool in PowerPoint.
You can trace over a specimen to get a diagram that matches a photo of a specimen.
Pictures drawn in PowerPoint are vector graphics, this means they are based on mathematical equations and are infinitely scale-able without loss of resolution.This means your diagram can be scaled to an A0 poster or larger without loss of resolution.
Using PowerPoint to draw diagrams is easier to learn than using the similar vector graphics software such as Adobe Illustrator.
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https://www.rcpa.edu.au/Education/Research-and-Scholarship/Educating-Others/Virtual-Pathology-Pots |
| Link to recorded presentation by Dr Nga Min En, National University of Singapore. You will need to log in as a member on the RCPA website to view. Below is a short demonstration of using a screen recording of a virtual pathology pot for teaching. https://vimeo.com/152866022 |
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| Link to open access online gallery of 360 degree Virtual Pathology pots by Dr Diane Kenwright, University of Otago, Wellington http://pathmuseum.otago.ac.nz/ |
These videos demonstrate a virtual slide set created in Excel using RCPA QAP ecases as an example. You can use online virtual slides from any source, not just ecases. We have collated some of our favourite pathology image libraries below. In this example of a placenta workshop, split over 3 videos, I use excel to collate the cases, but you can use any software you like that supports text, images and hyperlinks, including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Google Doc, Google forms etc.
Learner experience of the online virtual slide seminar
How to create a virtual slide seminar, part 1 [using excel, RCPA ecases, make thumbnail]
How to create a virtual slide seminar, part 2 [hyperlink thumbnail, hyperlink case discussion]
1, email the spreadsheet/document as an attachment to participants.
Placenta workshop 5 cases with answers
2. upload the spreadsheet/document into a cloud server such as google drive, dropbox etc and email the link to participants. Good for large file sizes. Here is a link to the placenta workshop created in the videos.
3. post the seminar to a shared site such as a Facebook page, website, wiki or blog. In this example Diane collated slides from a virtual slide library on a Google Doc and posted it to Facebook.
Explore thousands of indexed images:
RCPA ecases, you need to log in as an RCPA member
University of Leeds virtual slide library
Biomedical Education Skills Training network Slice Library.
Collated digital slides libraries from Digital Pathology Associates
University of Otago, Wellington, Pathology Museum 360o rotating macroscopic specimens
University of Western Australia, Pathology Museum macroscopic specimens
We have explained how do do screen recording on a PC or Mac computer , but what about touch screen tablets ?
Touch screen mobile devices have the advantage of easy pinch and reverse pinch for zooming in and out, and easy intuitive annotation with lines, arrows or handwritten text using a stylus or fingertip.
There are two different approaches to recording the tablet screen, it depends which approach suits your workflow.
There are many screen mirroring apps, here is a review and comparison table
The following two examples use Airserver $12 for educational licence. This works with Android and iOS mobile devices
| In this example Amanda records an ipad screen on a PC via screen mirroring with Airserver |
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| Amanda records an iphone 6 screen using screen mirroring to a PC with Airserver. Portrait orientation is not the best for video, landscape orientation is preferable, See the next video. |
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The following example uses free Lonely Screen AirPlay receiver installed on PC. AirPlay is only available on iOS devices.
| Amanda uses a free AirPlay receiver app installed on the PC called Lonely Screen to mirror the iphone screen to the PC via Airplay on the phone. As with Airserver, both devices are connected to the same wireless network. Lonely Screen has a simple built in screen recorder, however, this recording was done with Screencast-o-matic which has more options and controls such as choosing microphone input and drawing tools. |
| Diane streamed video from her iphone 6 via AirPlay to her Mac laptop, and used Quicktime to screen record. Here Diane explains nutmeg liver in “The Pathology cooking show”. |
There are several interactive whiteboard apps with screen recording function. Examples are Explain Everything and Show Me. Both cost < $10 for a one off purchase.
Min En Nga uses Explain Everything app on an ipad to demonstrate macroscopic pathology of lung abscess
Part 1 demonstrates uploading a pdf to a cloud server, copying the URL, using Google URL shortener to create a QR code, then view the analytics.
Part 2 demonstrates uploading a video to YouTube, copying the url link, using a QR code generator to create a QR code, and shows application of QR codes to bring print documents alive.
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