28 July 2023 (Friday) - A Book on Morphology

 

I found this book of morphology on-line today. It’s rather useful…

16 September 2022 (Friday) - Another Source of CPD?

 

Here's a useful resource.... loads of case studies... and all free.
https://www.hematology.org/education/trainees/fellows/case-studies
 
And here's another
https://hematologyacademy.com/disease-state-anomaly/
 
There are rumours of me setting up a CPD scheme… if true I shall shamelessly blag these.

9 FEbruary 2021 (Tuesday) - Pro-COAG event

The nice people at Roche Diagnostics have made the video of their Pro-COAG scientific and educational event available to all. You can see it by clicking here.

I’ve often mentioned that this is the way forward. Rather than having meetings where people travel for miles (at someone else’s expense) just for a meet-up with their mates, or rather than having a webinar which is broadcast at a fixed time, videos which can be watched at the viewer’s leisure are clearly the way forward. I just wish more professional bodies would do this sort of thing. After all, Netflix have been doing this for years.

(Am I being picky by wishing that the speakers *didn’t*  look like they were reading from a script?)

26 November 2020 (Thursday) - Still Sulking

 I’m still bitter about the digital morphology exercise I ranted about a couple of days ago – I again tried to access the CPD certificate to list my side of the story. Again the website wasn’t having it, but I did find this link (click here)

Whilst there is nothing new, a refresher is always useful…

12 October 2020 (Monday) - On-Line Parasitology Course

I got to spend the afternoon on a distance-based over-the-internet interactive teaching session today. It’s no secret that I’m not the world’s greatest parasitologist – I was hoping for so much…

The first session was utterly disjointed. There was no structure or plan to it. The speaker spent the first fifteen minutes saying a lot without actually saying anything, and then spent forty-five minutes jumping from one topic to another seemingly at random with absolutely no connection between one sentence and the next. Occasionally the presenter would write on the screen… I say “write” – my six-year-old grandson could scribble neater.

There was then a quiz. We were presented with various pictures. First of all we had to identify the parasite, and then we had to select up to four reasons to support our reasoning. Identifying the parasite was easy - we just had to find the right picture in the accompanying pdf file (!), but justifying our answers wasn't so simple as the questions weren't well worded.

We had a tea break, then the presenter went through the answers. It was rather frustrating to score zero on one answer when having been told to select two of four answers we then found that all four were correct (as we'd thought). We scored eighty-nine per cent on the qiz as a whole (having only lost marks on the arguable reasoning), but I thought it very unfair that the speaker wasn't very constructive in telling people who'd made mistakes that they should not guess if they don't know, and implied that people were stupid for doing so.

And the answer session could have been prepared far better on the software - jumping from screen to screen did not work when we could only see the bottom tenth of the picture to which the speaker was referring.

Having done a post-graduate certificate in distance-based learning a few years ago it struck me that the speaker did pretty much everything I'd been told not to do.

 Mind you it is easy to be negative... and experts in any field are rarely good teachers. In the past I've done sessions like this which have involved taking a day off work, leaving home at silly o'clock, travelling to London at great expense and inconvenience and not getting home till late (having spent much of the day cooped up like a sardine). Distance-based training over thin Internet really is the way forward.

And as an added bonus, doing something like this was one of this year’s appraisal objectives…

20 August 2018 (Monday) - Podcasts

Here’s something which could potentially be useful – a site of podcasts about things haematological.

I’ve not watched any yet but intend to soon…

16 June 2018 (Saturday) - On-Line Atlas

One of my (many) on-line projects is an unashamed attempt to create the ultimate and definitive on-line Atlas of Haematology; an atlas so immensely impressive that all others will pale into insignificance when compared with it…

Is that *such* an ambition?

About eight years ago I made a start on one, and rather forgot all about it. You can see it by clicking here. There’s no denying that it has still got a little way to go before being heralded as the ultimate and definitive on-line Atlas of Haematology, but it is a start…

This week we had two interesting cases in work; a new case of AML, and a hypochromic microcytic anaemia with basophilic stippling.

I’ve added those two cases onto this atlas.

Seriously though… is this atlas worth continuing?

On the one hand there are endless case studies on-line which are presented far better.

On the other hand these are cases that *I*  have personally experienced.

I’ll look to beefing the atlas up a little…

26 January 2018 (Friday) - Red Cell Inclusions

Here’s an interesting little You-tube video…