It may seem a difficult term to understand, but just as analog cameras required film and are now easily manipulated and embedded in cell phones, so digital microscopy, within the scope of clinical analysis, has become the very evolution in digitizing images obtained through from the optical microscope to images in digital format.Scanning is done with a sensor that converts the image into a computer file, with increased resolution, contrast and sharpness.Images can be stored, edited and shared.The possibility of seeing the invisible with the naked eye, through the microscope, allows knowing the characteristics of the microbiological world, cells, tissues and their correct functioning, through slides (glass material of specific dimension containing the material to be studied).And this also allows the analysis of organs suspected of having some pathology.Professor Magda Verçosa, coordinator of Labocien at the University Center of Brasília (Ceub), explains that working with a physical blade becomes more expensive due to its fragility and the need for a longer time to carry out the diagnosis.“On the other hand, digitized slides have a wider range of advantages (no risk of breakage, loss and misplacement) and means of analysis that can be performed such as automated cell counting, measurement of tissue area and length, sharing via the internet for a second opinion from experts”, he argues.The bank of digital slides enriches the practical classes by facilitating the reading and interpretation of tissue by allowing better quality photography for further studies, expanding knowledge in the use of technology in aspects of diagnostic analysis such as measuring cellular structures, performing a simultaneous comparative study with slides of healthy and diseased tissues.Since its implementation, the "virtual laboratory" has served all CEUB health courses: Biomedicine, Biological Sciences, Physical Education, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Nutrition, which have, in their Pedagogical Project, disciplines or modules of biological bases.Virtual microscopy, as a tool available to telehealth, was essential to provide support and flow to clinical cases amid the high demand caused by the covid-19 pandemic, especially for small cities in the interior of the states, which, for the most part, , are lacking qualified professionals in this area and need to turn to specialists in large urban centers.For teaching, virtual microscopy has brought new ways of learning by innovating teaching practices of microbiology and cytology, in addition to allowing the student to obtain commonly available learning content, in practical classroom classes, even when studying at a distance. .“We also reflected on the possibility that this instrument could be used in Realistic Simulation practices, thus cooperating with the acquisition of professional skills.One of the great challenges of theoretical-practical classes is the integration of learning with the world of work”, says the researcher.By Michel Lima Images: PublicitySupervised by Luiz Claudio FerreiraThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International License.You have the right to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercial.Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made.You must do so under any reasonable circumstances, but in no way that suggests that the licensor endorses you or your use.NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.Agência de Notícias is an extension project of the Journalism course with students working daily in the development of texts, photographs, audio and videos with the supervision of professors of communication courses.