Career Timeline for Robert W. Ogilvie, Ph.D.
Emphasizing Education
• 1965 – 1967 Organized and directed the teaching of a new course in the newly established College of Dental Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
• 1967 – 1977 Course Director for the Medical Histology Course at the Medical University of South Carolina. Began with a loan collection of glass slides and microscopes. Each student purchased or rented a microscope.
• 1972 Organized a faculty team at the Medical University of South Carolina to created 35 mm slide/script self-instructional lessons in practical histology. Thirteen units were created, the majority by Dr. Ogilvie, for use in the histology lab where this mode was blended with microscopes and glass slides. Carousel Projectors were provided in the histology teaching lab, one for every group of five students. The impetus for creating the units was that the class size doubled from 85 to 170 in one year with no additional faculty. These units were used at MUSC for more than ten years.
• 1977 – 1988 Organized the first medical and dental histology course in the new medical school at Oral Roberts University that included the creation of loan collection of microscopic specimens for students in the laboratory. Also implemented a novel television microscopic system with a monitor for every two students at the benches in the histology teaching lab. The system included a high resolution TV camera on a research grade Leitz microscope. The specimen images could be projected throughout the lab with commentary.
• 1988 – 1993 Became course director of histology in rank as Professor at the University of the Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Anatomical Sciences. In that role, the glass slide sets for histology were revised down from 3 boxes to one box. For a two years the self-instructional 35 mm slide / script lessons created at the Medical University of South Carolina were used in blending this mode with the microscope and the set of histology teaching slides.
• 1990 A histology image resource on a video disc was implemented at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center. Eight video discs created by Dr. Steve Downing at the University of Minnesota, Department of Anatomy were purchased. Each disc came with a book of barcodes listed only by the name of the specimen. Eight video disc players were purchased with bar code readers. This resource replaced the 35 mm slide / script self-instructional lessons. The video disc resource was used in continuing the blending of a set of glass slides and the microscope.
• 1993 Returned to the Medical University of South Carolina in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy in charge of the Medical Histology Course. Under my leadership, five 200 square foot area modules were created to replace one large single histology teaching lab that had been in existence since 1972. The space allocated for the new modular teaching lab was about ½ of the original lab space. Each module was equipped with three stations housing a computer, a video disc player, a TV monitor. In addition, each module had two microscope stations that included a microscope with a digital camera connected to a large monitor on the wall to project the image through the microscope. The microscopes had two heads (dual-viewing) so that faculty could work with individual students, or project a slide onto the large wall mounted TV monitor to instruct the students in the module. The video disc used was still the one created by Dr. Steve Downing. Instead of the barcode manual that came with the disc, I used a word processor (Clarisworks) to create a customized lab manual for student to use with the videodisc. This manual included screenshot of specimens from the disc with minimal annotations. Barcodes were placed below each screenshot for accessing the specimen from the disc. In addition, text was created to guide the student in learning about the specimens.
• 1997 By this year, as medical histology course director, formative assessment computer administered quizzes were implemented in the histology teaching modules where students could take a quiz on the computer and receive immediate feedback of the correct answer with explanatory text. This innovation was reported in an interactive poster presented at the Third Biennial International Basic Science Educators Forum Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina, June 21 – 24, 1997. The International Basic Science Educators Forum Conference was the forerunner of the now International Association of Medical Science Educators.
• 1999 – 2000 A one year sabbatical leave from the Medical University of South Carolina was spent at the Anatomical Institute, College of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland working with Peter Groscurth, M.D. (at that time the head of the institute of Anatomy). During this year I worked with Dr. Groscurth to take a DVD named Virtual Microscope 1.0 to the next level, by the end of the year, to Virtual Microscope 2.0. The Virtual Microscope DVD contained histology specimens for the learning of Tissue and Organ Histology. Each specimen was fully labeled with two forms of self-assessment quizzing.
• 2002 Organized the Inaugural Symposium on Virtual Microscopy in Teaching, Research and Diagnosis held at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, November 21 – 23, 2002. Over 100 faculty and representatives of the five leading companies whose products included a virtual slide scanner were in attendance. Dr. Fred Dee, Pathologist at the University of Iowa presented the first Internet accessible collection of virtual slides, The Virtual Slide Box, at this symposium. The symposium web site is still available at: http://mmi.musc.edu/vslide/
• 2004 By this year, at my urging, Dr. Groscurth with a colleague in Basal, Switzerland, Dr. Hans-Peter Rohr (Pathologist), hired a programmer to convert Virtual Microscope 2.0 to a web based program that could be accessed over the Internet. The web based program was named WebMic. The WebMic program (Java is required) may be accessed at: http://cocascwebmic.cas.sc.edu/webmic/WebMic/allgspez/WebMicGenOrg.html I created a near a lab manual to guide the student in using this new Internet accessible collection of specimens using the program WebMic. WebMic and the companion manual were reported at the Experimental Biology Meetings, Washington, DC, 2004. The lab manual was renamed to WebMic Study Guide: Learning Histology Step by Step, by R. W. Ogilvie.
• 2004 (October) Invited Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins College of Medicine, University of Virginia and Harvard University. The title of the talks given was “Implementing Virtual Microscopy in Medical Education”
• 2005 A first of its kind book on Virtual Microscopy was co-edited by Dr. Ogilvie and Dr. Gu published by CRC Press: “Virtual Microscopy and Virtual Slides in Teaching, Diagnosis and Research” CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida, 2005. ISBN #10: 0-94932067-4. The book was inspired by the 2002 Symposium.
o July Presented a talk in the Graduate Pathology Education Session at the annual meeting of the Association of Pathology Chairs in Mont Temblant, Quebec Canada, July 27-30, 2005. Title of the talk was “Experience with Virtual Microscopy in Teaching Histology at the Medical University of South Carolina
o October Invited consultant at the Ohio State University College of Medicine where I provided advice on re-instituting a course in histology in the medical curriculum. I presented a talk titled: “WebMic and Manual: A Resource for Learning Basic Histology”
o August An invited speaker at The Fourth Asia-Pacific International Academy
of Pathology Congress, Chinese Division, Beijing, China, August 22-26, 2005. Also, a seminar by invitation was presented to the faculty at the Peking College of Medicine. The title of both talks was “Implementing Virtual Microscopy in Medical Education”.
• 2006 June 30 retired from full-time faculty position, Professor with Tenure at the Medical University of South Carolina. Became Professor Emeritus. July 3, 2006 was hired by the chair of pathology at MUSC to implement virtual microscopy in the sophomore medical pathology course. 2006 – 2009 I held a 0.50 FTE position in the Department of Pathology. During that time, I replaced all the static photomicrographs used in the tutorial group lab sessions to present the histology of the cases to virtual slides that were annotated with question prompts. The question prompts were leading questions posed on each specimen that took the tutorial leader to the magnification and region of the specimen to begin the discussion of the histopatholgy.
• 2006 Several invited talks and presentations
o May Invited speaker at the 2nd Inter-Congress of the European Society of Pathology, Ioannina, Greece. During that same time, I gave an invited talk to the faculty and students at the University of Ioannina, Greece Medical School The title of both talks was “Implementing Virtual Microscopy in Medical Education”
o May Invited WebCast (now called Webinar) for the International Association of Medical Science Educators “Implementing Virtual Microscopy in Medical Education”. The talk may still be accessed at:
http://www.iamse.org/development/2006/was_2006_spring.htm
• 2007 Several invited talks and presentation
o June Visiting Professor, Department of Pathology, Hershey Medical Center “Virtual Laboratory for Teaching and Learning Histology and Pathology”
o July Production of Screen Recorded Video Tutorials of Virtual Slides for Teaching Histology and Histopathology Using Camtasia Studio, talk given by invitation at the Slice of Life Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 29, 2007. Web site for the meeting: http://slice.utah.edu/2007/ Abstract published online at: http://slice.utah.edu/2007/schedule/documents/RobertOgilvie1_002.pdf The talk may be accessed at: http://services.tacc.utah.edu/m/show_grouping.php?g=25d115a9a8864e412
o September Production of Screen Recorded Video Tutorials of Virtual Slides for Teaching Histology and Histopathology Using Camtasia Studio, invited talk at the 21st European Congress of Pathology, September 8-13, 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. The talk is published as an article in the proceedings of the Congress, page 359. http://www.ecp2007istanbul.org/
• 2008
o Course Director: “Anatomy, Histology & Pathology of The Laboratory Mouse, MUSC Graduate School, 2008-2009 (Created the course and directed it for two years)
o July Organized and participated in a Workshop at the 12th Annual International Association for Medical Science Educators Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah. The workshop title was: “Virtual Microscopy across the Curriculum: A Flexible Tool for Anatomic Integration”. Participating were Robert Klein, Chrystal Adams, Michael Karr and James May.
o December Invited Talk: “Implementation of Virtual Microscopy in Medical Education”, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
o Hired as a Visiting Professor 0.25 FTE by the Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, to create a fully online course in histology, a position I currently hold in 2013.
• 2009 Invited Talk: “Implementation of Virtual Microscopy in Medical Education”, Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Pomerania, Szczecin, Poland
• 2011 Implemented a fully online histology course with virtual lectures and labs for University of South Carolina undergraduate and graduate students. This course is a 500 level course offered under the title: Histology: BIOLJ530. This course has been taught 6 semesters during which time over 700 students have completed the course successfully. The majority of enrollees in the course are pre-meds and pre-dents but there is also a wide representation of majors taking the course since it went online. These include majors in computer science and engineering, master’s candidates in the graduate school and the medical science curriculum at the University of South Carolina College of Medicine. Other majors represented are anthropology, exercise science, physical education, psychology and even hospitality majors. . I created and maintain the course web site using Blackboard. A copy of the Fall semester 2012 course may be accessed at http://blackboard.sc.edu . Log in with: Username, bb-ecp-rev and Password, gRaymOuse21 . This demonstration course was prepared as a part of an application to the Blackboard Exemplary Course Award Program. All aspects of the course are available to review including the narrated lectures.
• 2012 – 2013 With assistance of Dr. Robert S. McCuskey, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona a refresher course / symposium was organized and presented at the 125th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists in Boston, Massachusetts, April 22, 2013. The title of the symposium was: “Histology Teaching: Past, Present and Future”. Dr. McCuskey chaired the meeting. Dr. Robert Bloodgood gave the first talk which chronicled the teaching of Histology from 1888 until the present. Dr. Helen Amerongen presented the second talk which presented the challenges and opportunities of teaching histology in integrated medical curricula currently. I gave the last talk that presented the development of, the resources used and the activity / participation of students in a fully online histology course with virtual lectures and labs.