UCI agrees to use MAggPI's web-based digital whole slide imaging to teach medical students

The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine has agreed to use web-based digital whole slide imaging developed by MAggPI in the teaching of medical students. In this collaboration, diagnostic-quality, expert-curated digital images of normal and diseased tissue will be incorporated in the teaching of histology and pathology to medical students at UCI.

MAggPI develops platform-independent, cloud-based methods of storing, easily viewing, and annotating digital whole slide images to improve healthcare and pathology education. MAggPI is building a "Massive Aggregation of Pathology Information" to expand access to pathology in underserved areas and improve/enhance primary and continuing medical education.

UCI School of Medicine created the iMedEd initiative, an innovative digital-based educational platform used in classroom and clinical training. The university's use of this technology is expected to facilitate student learning and collaboration and result in improved understanding of the pathologic diagnosis of disease.

"UCI School of Medicine has pioneered the use of new technologies in the classroom and clinical settings," said Anjen Chenn, MD, PhD, founder and CEO of MAggPI. "Their students and faculty have developed novel technologies to improve healthcare and medical education worldwide. We believe this arrangement is the first to utilize annotatable diagnostic-quality whole-slide digital images in medical school teaching of histology and pathology."

"The ability to view and annotate high-quality whole slide images of normal and abnormal tissues will greatly facilitate the interactive teaching of histology and pathology," said Robert Edwards, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology & Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, and Chairman, Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee at UCI School of Medicine. "The MAggPI platform will enable our students to access these resources 24/7 and get input from other students and faculty."

Source: University of California, Irvine