Use of streamed internet video for cytology training and education: www.PathLab.org.
An Internet-based method is described for submission of video clips to a website editor to be reviewed, edited, and then uploaded onto a video server, with a hypertext link to a website. The information on the webpages is searchable via the website sitemap on Internet search engines. A survey of video users who accessed a single 59-minute FNA cytology training cytology video via the website showed a mean score for usefulness for specialists/consultants of 3.75, range 1-5, n = 16, usefulness for trainees mean score was 4.4, range 3-5, n = 12, with a mean score for visual and sound quality of 3.9, range 2-5, n = 16. Fifteen out of 17 respondents thought that posting video training material on the Internet was a good idea, and 9 of 17 respondents would also consider submitting training videos to a similar website. This brief exercise has shown that there is value in posting educational or training video content on the Internet and that the use of streamed video accessed via the Internet will be of increasing importance.
Poller
David
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Department of Pathology, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. david.poller@porthosp.nhs.uk
Ljung
Britt-Marie
BM
Gonda
Peter
P
D003585:Cell Biology / Q000193:education*; D003625:Data Collection; D020407:Internet; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014741:Video Recording