I spent a little while reviewing the
morphology abilities of one of the trainees today. The chap did rather well (I
thought) but…
Back in the day analysers didn’t do
white cell differential counts. We did them. And so we looked at hundreds of
blood films that today we wouldn’t look at, and consequently we soon built up a
mental image of what “normal” looked like. Automation means we look at
far fewer blood films these days and so it takes a lot longer to build up experience.
I always tell every trainee that they
need to make a point of looking at a dozen blood films every day… but I’m not
the boss (any more… which I see as a result) and the real boss has other
tasks that they want the trainees to be doing.
But back in the day wasn’t half-way
through the third decade of the twenty-first century. If they haven’t got time
to look down the microscope at work they can find ten minutes a day to peer
into the Internet (if I can, anyone can) and look at some films on-line.
Here’s a few useful websites I found today whilst I was waiting for my trainee
to decide what he thought about the films I’d given him.
I’ve added this list on the right hand
side of this blog together with other useful links. It might not be the same as
peering down a microscope but it’s better than nothing…
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