1 July 2025 (Tuesday) - Competency Assessment

I was asked if I might produce a series of slides for competency assessments. I was rather happy to do so… it’s easier said than done though.
How many slides do we need? I went for twenty, but at five minutes per slide that’s going to take two hours per assessment.
What cases should we cover? What cases have we got in the teaching slides… Has anyone sorted the teaching slides for a while?
Back in the day I compiled a series of teaching slides by sticking what I considered to be an interesting case into a slide tray with a plan to sort it later… and I would forget about it. So consequently when I came to sort the myriad of slides I’d piled up I had a few dozen cases of iron deficient anaemia, a few dozen cases of CLL, and a few dozen slides with frankly horrific looking blast cells. All of which were rather faded.
Fortunately we had quite a variety of cases in the teaching slides. I’ve managed to get eight different slides which are predominantly red cell issues, eight which are predominantly white cell issues, one thrombocytosis, one thrombocytopenia, one with clumps, and one unremarkable one.
Getting a selection was tricky. Now I’ve got to come up with standard (correct) answers…
I quite like making myself useful like this…

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