As a Medical Laboratory Technology Student from GITAM University, I enjoyed and understood fully Blood Film Morphology-A practical guide. It boosts my skills in Hematology
I just completed the course and wanted to give feedback to others thinking about enrolling. I work in a teaching hospital and rotate through the hematology section of the core laboratory at least weekly. Our hospital’s Cancer Care program treats both pediatric and adult hematology/oncology patients. Consequently, the laboratory technologist working on the hematology differential bench see many abnormal blood smears daily. I took the class to improve my knowledge in reading abnormal blood smears. I accomplished that goal and will cycle back through the course as time permits to to continue to improve my knowledge.
The course content is very comprehensive in and the video presentations are very well done. The instructor, DR Matthew Wright, is very passionate and enthusiastic about the topic. It was both a challenge and a pleasure to sit in his virtual class.
The only aspect of the course that I didn’t enjoy was the Peer Graded Assignments. I often felt that a number of the peer assignments I was asked to grade indicated to me that the person submitting the assignment either didn’t read or didn’t understand the instructions based on their answers. And, these same individuals were grading my assignments. Peer grading is an interesting concept but makes sense only if the participants are truly peers.
