Abstract:
In the age of computer technology increasing significant role in human life. Computer technology is widely used
to encourage students in the learning. For medical education, pathology is the subjects that difficult to understand
and use as self-learning. Most medical students often lack the skills to diagnose by microscope. The objectives of
this research were to develop a training program for increasing diagnosis skill in interpreting histopathology images
on web for medical students called Histopathologic Diagnostic Skills Program (HDSP), and to evaluate the
medical faculties satisfaction of and medical students satisfaction after using the HDSP. This methodology in
research was divided into two phase. The first phase was developing HDSP based on Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC). SDLC had five steps: planning, analyzing, designing, testing and maintaining. The second phase
was evaluate medical faculties satisfaction in using HDSP. Ten medical faculties and thirty medical students was
selected based on purposive sampling. HDSP and five-level Likert scale questionnaire was used as tools in
evaluation. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze data. The results of this study consisted of two
parts. The first part was the HDSP program. The second part was the medical faculties satisfaction of and medical
students satisfaction in using the HDSP. For the first part, the HDSP program consisted of two user mode: medial
faculties and medical students. The medical faculties mode was divided into five functions: Pathologic components,
Pathologic features, Patient cases, examination setup, and examination results. The medical students mode had
two functions: exercise and statistic after doing exercise. For the second part, the level of medical faculties
satisfaction was high (𝑥̅
= 4.50, S. D.= 0.34). The highest score of medical faculties satisfaction was the
usefulness of HDSP. The level of medical students satisfaction was high (𝑥̅
= 4.41, S. D.= 0.30). The highest
score of medical students satisfaction was the function of the HDSP program."