The
IBMS e-newsletter came today… in the past I’ve been rather scathing about the IBMS
e-newsletters. This one (I’m afraid) did
nothing to change my opinion of the publication. With articles on HCPC
renewals, IBMS congress, IBMS degrees and IBMS training courses, IBMS courses
for support staff… there wasn’t actually anything of note for me personally.
This is (supposed to be) a reflective diary by a (not very) anonymous biomedical scientist who works somewhere in the south of England. One day this diary may well be submitted to the Health and Care Professions Council as evidence of ongoing continual professional development....
3 September 2015 (Wednesday) - Food for Thought
http://laboratory-manager.advanceweb.com/Features/Articles/Beyond-the-Biohazard-Door.aspx
Here’s
food for thought….. so often I sit in the lab seething about what I see as the
failings of the ward staff, the porters, the drivers, and everyone else. It is
very easy to get blinkered and forget we’re all on the same side; just with
different priorities
28 August 2015 (Friday) - IBMS Newsletter
https://www.ibms.org/go/nm/issues,45
The
IBMS on-line newsletter came out today. In the past I’ve been less than
enthusiastic about the thing.
This one started off well with an interesting article about on-line morphology training. However it did gloss over the cost. When I looked into this four years ago it wasn’t cheap.
There
were then reminders about HCPC registration and IBMS Congress which really didn’t
grip my attention.
It
ended with a summary of the most popular posts on the IBMS’s Facebook page. I
follow the IBMS on Facebook…. I suppose there were one or two snippets over the
last month. None really come to mind. If they had I would have posted them here
already.
27 August 2015 (Thursday) - Digital Morphology
The NEQAS digital morphology
scheme answers became available today….
My answers
|
Rank
|
Morphological Feature
|
Participants who
selected this feature
|
|
1
|
Blast cells
|
0.5%
|
|
2
|
Nucleated RBCs
|
88.5%
|
|
3
|
Howell Jolly Bodies
|
59.4%
|
|
4
|
Target cells
|
73.7%
|
|
5
|
Smear/smudge cells
|
3.3%
|
Everyone else said:
|
Rank
|
Morphological Feature
|
Participants who
selected this feature
|
|
1
|
Nucleated RBCs
|
88.5%
|
|
2
|
Target cells
|
73.7%
|
|
3
|
Howell Jolly Bodies
|
59.4%
|
|
4
|
RBC
Fragments/Schistocyte..
|
47.8%
|
|
5
|
Polychromatic RBC
|
32.7%
|
Could
do better…. I’m intrigued by the software that said I didn’t actually participate
yet it gave me what it said I reported. Having reviewed the film I’m more in
agreement with the consensus than with what I supposedly said. I say “supposedly”…. I can’t remember what I
put in the first place as it was so long ago, and as the software’s clearly
made an error in say ing I didn’t take part and yet it assigned answers to me,
I wonder if it recorded what I said correctly
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