Atlas de hematologia virtual: um guia prático

Abstract

The current study models have used several technologies in the process of learning and technical development, including the multimedia tools and active methodologies that make these activities more dynamic and attractive. This dynamism of technologies applied to the study, especially in the health area, contributes to professional improvement and to increase the quality of services provided to the population. The new information and communication technologies (TIC) expanded the online teaching and provided a greater access to education, especially in special situations like the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was a great acceleration of development of these tools, popularizing and promoting distance learning (EAD) globally. This digital teaching environment, also known as u-learning (ubiquitous learning) or “omnipresent learning”, is developed for mobile device applications, which provides easy access and flexibility of time and place for its use. The elaboration of the application “Atlas em Hematologia, um guia prático” aimed to provide the technical improvement in hematological cytology, considering the difficulty of students and professionals in the clinical analysis area, especially those who work in hematology laboratories, in the practice of laboratory identification, description and correlation of cellular elements that are evaluated in the blood count, one of the most important and requested laboratory tests in clinical practice. As a result, an application was developed in the format of a digital atlas with free access through electronic devices via the internet, and constituted of a large collection of images of the main morphological alterations of leukocytes, red blood cells and platelets, in addition to the descriptions of the main cellular morphological characteristics, such as size, color, shape, inclusions, clinical and laboratory correlations. It is hoped that this work will be seen as an incentive and reference for the construction of new applications, not only in the area of hematology, but in all areas of medicine.