Posted by dapo on Jul 28, 2009 in
CPD,
Good sites,
Medical I am currently working on a series of lectures for the Medical Laboratory Assistants in our laboratory. The lecture series is designed to provide some background for the MLA on the various tests we perform and hopefully help them to understand some the clinical details they might see to help them in test requesting.
Xanthochromia is one of the lectures I am currently working on. Whilst performing some research, I found a Youtube clip on performing a Lumbar puncture which I thought might be useful for other people to use. It did make think that this is a really good way of using Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_0gOI8uV0
Posted by dapo on Jul 16, 2009 in
ACB,
CPD ANOTHER date for your diary.
This is for Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine, or FILM. You can register your interest at:
http://www.acb.org.uk/site/film.asp
Tags: ACB, CPD, FILM
Posted by dapo on Jul 16, 2009 in
ACB,
CPD Another date for your diary. This one is a bit more short notice though. It is a joint AACC/ACB meeting. Details can be found here or :
http://www.acb.org.uk/docs/AACC-ACB%20Programme.pdf
Tags: AACC, ACB
Posted by dapo on Jul 16, 2009 in
ACB,
CPD Date for your diary, 10th-13th May, Glasgow. This is the dates for the next Focus meeting.
Posted by dapo on Jun 28, 2009 in
CPD,
Chemistry,
Good sites I have finally got some time to write a review for the Vitamin D podcast from Clinical Chemistry.
The interview isn’t too long and does not go into great technical depth but is a great listen and I certainly learned a few things from listening to it. I knew that there are two different sources of vitamin D, diet and production by the body due to exposure to sunlight. I didn’t realise that animal and sunlight derived vitamin D is Vitamin D3 and invertebrate and plant derived vitamin d is Vitamin D2.
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Tags: Clinical Chemistry, Graham Beastall, Podcast, Vitamin D
Posted by dapo on Jun 27, 2009 in
CPD,
Chemistry I have been given some dedicated time at work to work as a Training Officer. I am really looking forward to seeing what I can do with the time and how I can shape the training of people within the laboratory. Watch this space for developments…..
Tags: CPD, training
Posted by dapo on Jun 12, 2009 in
CPD,
Good sites,
Journals,
Talking point I have been looking at my training site and updating a few things and in the process I have found several sources of podcasts! The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has an audio podcast as well as some vidoes.
Also, I found the the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, the people behind the Clinical Chemistry journal, provide a podcast.
I think its great that these heavy journals are providing this kind of content. I have download a few episodes and will aim to listen whilst going to and from work next week. Hope to provide some feedback soon.
Tags: AACC, BMJ, Clinical Chemistry, moodle, mp3, Podcast
Posted by dapo on Apr 27, 2008 in
CPD,
Good sites Whilst playing around with Google Ads for the site, it came up with a CPD site from the BMJ which I thought I would have a look at. It can be found here if you want a look too.
Tags: BMJ, CPD
Posted by dapo on Jun 2, 2007 in
CPD,
Chemistry,
Medical,
Talking point The laboratory I work in has recently seen a very unusual potassium result. During the afternoon, one of our consultants came across a high potassium result, 13.4, that he suspected might be an EDTA contaminated sample.
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Tags: potassium, Talking point
Posted by dapo on Jun 2, 2007 in
Abbott,
CPD A while ago, I attended an Abbott Learn and Earn day on Cardiac Markers. The day was very well organized and contained some very useful information. The highlight of day was a talk from a cardiologist about the use of cardiac markers etc from a medical point of view. It was a surprise to learn that shared a common view that doctors are requesting tests without any need, that a proper clinical history is taking second place to a comprehensive set of blood tests.
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Tags: Abbott, cardiac markers, CPD, learn and earn