NYU Virtual Microscope BETA 5

Sample slides from the collection (click to view):
Pig Head Colon Pacinian Corpuscle graafian_follicles

Get started by searching for a slide or using the Programs/Collections menus above.
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This application was created by the NYU School of Medicine Division of Educational Informatics. The Virtual Microscope uses the Google Maps API to display, annotate, and navigate digital slides.

Want to learn more? Read our article in BMC medical education: Enhanced virtual microscopy for collaborative education. Triola M, Holloway W. BMC Medical Education 2011, 11:4 (26 January 2011)

1,129 slides available. 527,685 views.

Features include:
  • Slide annotation by students and faculty with community peer-review
  • Practical Exam Mode: both a low-stakes self test mode and a high-stakes practical exam mode
  • Metadata from controlled vocabularies to classify and search for slides
  • Arbitrary tagging for folksonomies by any logged-in user
  • Slides can be grouped into programs and collections
  • Code is open source.
  • Most slides available to the world for viewing