From 2002 to 2015

A small amount of online teaching materials existed in the Department of Pathology before 2002. The current extensive program was started by one of our faculties, Dr. Kar-Ming Fung, on October 2002. At the very beginning, it contained two major arms- NeuroLearn which was a neuropathology online self-learning program and OU Pathology Case of the Month which was used to show the interesting teaching cases. Online whole slide images (digital slides) became available in 2008 and the OU Pathology Online Slides, Atlas, & Quizzes was later created in order to use whole slide images in regular teaching. In between, there were also CytoLearn and HemeLearn which were two programs that focused on hematopathology and cytoplathology as well as a separate quiz program- OU Anatomic Pathology Quiz Collection.

During these years, Dr. Fung was the soul of the program but many other faculties and trainees inside and outside our department contributed their help and provided teaching materials. Out of this long list of contributors, Dr. Richard Leech, Dr. Ravi Sawh, and Dr. Stanley Light foot made significant contribution to the materials being used in this program. Dr. Lewis Hassell contributed a lot of ideas and critiques. Dr. Michael Talbert, our current chairman of the department, was the key person in the purchase of equipment that allowed the use of online whole slide images.

From 2016

Just like any programs that had been used for a long time, the materials in this program started to get out dated and too diversified. This program was shut down for renovation in the spring of 2016 and restructured. The entire program was condensed into three major arms and re-launched in March, 2017.

• OU Pathology Online Slides, Atlas, & Quizzes: This program contains online digital slides in the case of unknown slides with quizzes attached to some of the cases. OU Case of the Month and OU Anatomic Pathology Quiz Collection will be integrated into this program but these two are still ongoing project as of this date. It is our hope that this integration will be finished by the end of 2017.

• NeuroLearn: This program contains normal neuroanatomy slides and neuropathology online digital slides and quizzes. We are planning to add the didactic materials form the original NeurolLearn back to this program in future.

Up Coming Plan for 2017-2019

• CytoLearn: This program focuses on cytology self-learning materials. This program is still undergoing reconstruction and will be up and running by the end of 2017.

• OU Pathology Case of the Month: This program is essentially a show case for our residents and our interesting cases. Our plan is to resurrect this program but the details are still under discussion. The goal is to resurrect this program by the end of 2017.

• OU Anatomic Pathology Quiz: There is a plan to resurrect this program but it will be 2018 the earliest.

Editorial Board from 2017

• Dr. Kar-Ming Fung is the webmaster and editor-in-chief of this program.

• Dr. Rachel Conrad is the editor of the upcoming CytoLearn.

• Dr. Jo Elle Peterson is the editor of NeuroLearn.

• Dr. Teresa Scordino is the editor of cases and quizzes with hematopathology content.

• Drs. Ngoc Tran and Kowk Ling Kam are the trainee editors (Academic Year 2016-2018) whose main job is to proof read the materials.

Please contact Dr. Kar-Ming Fung (karming-fung@ouhsc.edu)  if you have any questions, comment, or suggestions regarding this program.

This webpage is last updated on April 15, 2017.

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