Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

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 [...]

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

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

Date for your diary, 10th-13th May, Glasgow.  This is the dates for the next Focus meeting.

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 [...]

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…..

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, [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]