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course, each taking a full semester. The Advanced class covers confocal and
related techniques. We have had very good outcomes with graduate students
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:34 PM Phillips, Thomas E. <
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> Does anybody offer their confocal training as an official grad-level
> class? In the past, offering a hands-on class was problematic for us since
> (i) no tuition dollars flow back to the core and (ii) PI's wanted their
> students using their own samples so "free class time" meant no income for
> us when those projects would normally have been done outside of class. Our
> campus is moving to a new budget model and tuition dollars may flow more
> directly back to us. We are considering combining training and supervised
> independent use as part of the class design and allow student efforts to be
> credentialed. I would be interested to know if anyone else is taking this
> approach and how many credit hours you offer and what you cover as part of
> the course.
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> I have never met a PI who would have paid for Sylvie's design and
> impressed her clients do so.
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> Thank you Neftali, Kathy, Sylvie, and Steffen for the suggestions and
> excellent training resources to go through! Much appreciated 😊
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> Hi Niyanta,
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> I have collected a few resources on our website, so that I can refer our
> users to it more easily. This is at
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https://www.bioimaging.bmc.med.uni-muenchen.de/learn/> Have a look at "Educational Websites" and "Materials for teaching".
> Maybe you find something helpful. The listed page from Australia (was
> mentioned by others too) contains a quiz that you can take, and you can
> print out a certificate if you answer 8+ of 10 questions correct.
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> As in terms of hands on training, we start with a 3 h introduction session
> for up to 3 people. Usually with our samples, for two reasons.
> First, we want the user to pay attention to the microscope and software,
> not on the biological content of the images we make. Second, this way we
> can be sure that the sample is all right and we don't have users with
> crappy samples blaming it on the microscope. I agree with others that after
> 3 hours it makes no more sense, brains are full.
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> Next we do a 'guided session' with the user's sample that we accompany
> until the user is getting good results. This is 1:1. Depending on sample
> difficulty, prior knowledge and user talent we sometimes have a third
> session.
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> I am impressed by Sylvie's approach, but I doubt our group leaders would
> be willing to come up with so much money for training. Some think what we
> do now is already too time consuming (but most are happy about it).
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> Steffen
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> Am 11.10.2019 um 21:59 schrieb Niyanta Kumar:
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> > Hi all,
> > Can someone suggest any existing resources and formats to pull from
> > for designing new and advanced user trainings for confocal and
> > widefield microscopy? I need to design trainings for a Zeiss LSM 980
> > Airyscan 2 confocal and an Axio Obsever widefield scope. Interactive
> > resources or existing quizzes that can ensure users know what they
> > need to would also be helpful.
> > Thanks,
> > Niyanta
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