CellAtlas 4+

Was a wonderful app until recently. Now all I have are RBCs. What happened to all of the WBCs????

Whoever programmed the timer for the CellQuiz needs to be fired from future study guides. It is not helpful whatsoever to give people less than two seconds to look at up to 9 images and rapid fire a correct choice. 90-95% of the time I am making mistakes because I’m in a rush to beat the timer so I can unlock the cells I ACTUALLY want to practice (hematopoietic cell lineages, for example). What’s worse, these immature and abnormal cell types require close inspection for the presence of things like nucleoli or Dolhe bodies that are not readily apparent in certain cell pictures. There is NO need to be rushing students and penalizing them with time. It would be one thing if we were able to quiz ourselves on specific cell types, but we are not. You end up repeating the same basic cells over and over and wasting a lot of time. This would have been such an easy option to implement but the app designers were too busy building a hazing program to care. This isn’t Elden Ring, you’re teaching current and future healthcare workers.

This is a helpful study tool, I really like the quiz function. But I wish there was more options for that. For instance, it would be nice to have an untimed mode, so you could just practice the morphology. Additionally, it would be nice if there could be a few types of tests, like the basic WBC/RBC morphology currently available, and another one for cell types seen in malignancies, featuring Blasts and what not. Currently, one of my biggest struggles is just correctly ID’ing the maturation stages of the RBCs and WBCs, so being able to work on that would be helpful.