Education
Digital pathology in education can be used to create a more interactive teaching approach for students and educators. A digitized glass slide can be used to enhance teaching, educational conferences, sharing of cases, and efficiency of student learning. Enabling digital pathology in an educational environment allows students and educators to have access to the same image anywhere, anytime.
For teaching, a professor can use digital pathology as an aid to traditional journals and textbooks. A professor can share whole slide images of interesting cases, objects, etc. without using a multi-headed microscope. For conferences, images can be viewed among attendees without the physical glass slide. Cases can be shared virtually, eliminating the need to re-cut slides. To support student learning, digital pathology can allow students to have access to whole slide images outside the lab, and without the need for a microscope. A digital image can be viewed by the student anytime and anywhere.
