The Patient Under the Microscope
This unique educational program allows you to direct your own journey of discovery as you explore the relationship between cells, tissues and disease.
The Patient Under the Microscope is a multimedia resource that fully integrates the basic principles of cell biology, histology and pathology with clinical problems. Because of the central role of the cell in determining how disease is expressed, the program is ideally placed to demonstrate how changes at the cellular level give rise to symptoms and signs in the patient and how advances in our understanding of disease at this level impact on diagnosis and management, i.e. the cell is the ultimate patient.
The aim of the program is to encourage student-centred learning, based on discovering principles rather than rote-learning content. Interactive images, diagrams and animations are interspersed with challenges and opportunities for self-testing, creating an exciting program that student feedback has shown is "engaging", "clear", "succinct" and "provides the glue that holds the curriculum together".
The Patient Under the Microscope is currently used in medical, dental, physiotherapy, cell biology and biomedical science courses by students from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Curriculum Usage
The Patient Under the Microscope is used in medical and science curricula.
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Credits
Created by Howard and Virginia Grossman, the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne.
Developed by the Biomedical Multimedia Unit in association with the Departments of Pathology and Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Melbourne.