There aren't pretty graphics and fonts but have you looked at the MLS Quick Review Cards? There are customer pictures in the review section that show the cards. I found them incredibly helpful in school and still have mine.
CellaVision makes a free app called CellAtlas along with the cell booklet that hopefully came with your Hematology text book that have great pictures and the app has a cell quiz that is fun and somewhat useful. Make an index card with RBC indices and the normal ranges to help you with differentials until you memorize them. Pictures and experience through repetition of actual differential will be your best friend. Make sure you study pictures/characteristics until you can tell the difference between the granulocytes and mono vs reactive lymphs is critical. I recommend the card with indices and cell counts be placed in your atlas for use when doing practice/assigned differentials.
Here’s a link for the atlas if you don’t already have one: Clinical Hematology Atlas https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323322492/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_rw1MFbQMW0W07
I did the labce adaptive learning exams. They mimicked the boc pretty well. Just don't get discouraged when you score a 40 or 50% on it. They give you really tough questions. Learn from them. For study guides I really liked the lsu book. It's usually cheaper on the school's website than Amazon.
Clinical Laboratory Science Review: A Bottom Line Approach https://www.amazon.com/dp/0967043425/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fRMWAbK16XCT1
My molecular biology lab in 2013 had us buy this book
At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator, Updated Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0879697083/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IRZpFbQ8N2XZE
It has diagrams and a lot of helpful stuff for this :)
I'm sorry your first job ended up like this. Things like this early in your career can really shake you for awhile, so I urge you to be gentle with yourself. There's no justifiable reason for speaking to you like you say she did. Yes, micropipetting is key, but just doing a few exercises isn't going to teach you muscle memory for it. That just takes time.
Since it sounds like you don't have as much bench experience as you'd like, I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/At-Bench-Laboratory-Navigator-Updated/dp/0879697083/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=at+the+bench&qid=1596046269&sr=8-2
It really helped me with some of my molecular work and how to operate in a wet lab.
This Clinical Hematology Atlas has been our bible all the way from being a student to the real world. It has reference photos of abnormal cells/morphologies, the diseases they’re associated with, other relevant findings (such as other abnormal morphologies or chemistries etc). Very useful for odd rare cases that we don’t quite see too often in the real world anymore
I’m a med tech that reads smears
Congrats!
I LOVE the Polansky quick review cards. They were great for school and the board exam.
So it looks like the cards have been updated. https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Review-Medical-Laboratory-Science/dp/0803629567/ref=pd_aw_sbs_1/139-5732499-2052466?pd_rd_w=D9Crm&pf_rd_p=ced68ad8-bc34-4785-bbee-0583081705be&pf_rd_r=7JMDQPPE146Z8G5FZV6X&pd_rd_r=33ebb1d9-76ae-45e4-b127-59...
And the book, I'm not sure which you're referring to, but I'll see if I can find which it is on the ASCP recommendations.
I bought some super helpful flash cards, I didn’t really use the book much because my ADHD won’t allow it lol, but the cards helped me SO much
I like At the Bench, A Laboratory Navigator by Kathy Barker and had a copy for years.
It will be missing some if the newer techniques, obviously, but has a lot of mol bio basics and great 'be a good scientist' advice.
For the lab sciences, I recommend At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator. It's good good sections on everything from how an academic lab works to planning out your path through grad school to interpersonal issues and then some short summaries of (mostly biological) techniques you might encounter.
https://www.amazon.com/At-Bench-Laboratory-Navigator-Updated/dp/0879697083#reader_0879697083
It's a bit outdated at this point (2012) but still very valid. I tend to gift copies to students when they graduate and are going off to grad school, and they've mostly all said they found it really useful.
There are. I used labce and these review cards. They're a bit bulky, but I tended to do them by subject until I could vomit them out in my sleep and then just put them to the side. And don't freak out when the labce tests go sideways, take the time to review the right answers as well as the wrong ones.
I felt like I was failing the whole time, and it took a bathroom break to settle down enough to pound out the rest. Definitely take a break if you find yourself having that moment. And if you can eliminate at least one or two answers as certainly wrong, you up your chances from a 25% guess to a 50% 'educated' guess.
Good luck when you take it!
Thanks for your input!
Yeah I totally understand about medical moving slowly, the regulatory process surrounding it seems like a science in and of itself.
Apparently engineering in the medical industry also pays the best on average than most conventional engineering industries? It could be because they tend to work in capital cities, or maybe because medical professions are generally pretty highly paid, and some of that recognition rubs off onto the engineers (I’d take advantage of that gravy train for as much as I could!)
Thats interesting regarding low disruption, but understandable when looking at barriers to entry. I just started reading this book Biodesign , a massive book but lays out literally everything about the medical device industry and how to innovate within it. Thoroughly recommended.
There isn't a lot that I would "print out". I would rather have well organized and comprehensive books on topics that I don't know much about. For me, it is going to be emergency medical info like the The Survival Medicine Handbook and the Adventure Medical Kits Marine Medicine, plant and animal field guides for your region (particularly ones that cover medicinal and edible plants), and things like Farmer's Almanacs. My bug out option is by boat, so having not horribly out of date marine charts and this years tide tables is important also.
I haven't read any of those authors' books but I only read books that describes processes or books that have actions items to apply to your life. I used to read books that only made me feel good and I wouldn't learn or improve on anything.
For example, I have a book that details a process to innovate the healthcare field. This process has been developed by Stanford for 13+ years through research and consultation of high-level executives, physicians, other healthcare professionals, large companies, small companies across the world. Stanford has been teaching this process for almost 13 years as well. This book is my bible. I'm going to use this process for developing my own startup.
My point is, this kind of book is much more valuable to me than the ones that make you feel good or just motivate you.
Very nice. Each of these is good in its own way but in my eyes the last one kind of stands out because:
I think I'll end up getting her this one and recommending the others.
I can't thank you enough.
<em>Clinical Laboratory Science Review: A Bottom Line Approach</em> is a good review book with a lot of helpful tips on remembering difficult-to-memorize facts that you'll need to know.
> They taste good. They are cheap or convenient. If you think that these are reasons to eat certain foods
No. I'm mostly looking at diet as a means to optimize the functioning of this biochemical engine. Health, fitness and overall well-being are both the purpose and the status indicators for the process.
I regard Ray Kurzweil's Transcend book as state-of-the-art info in the field of diet and healthy living, although I'm far from following it to the letter. Unsurprisingly, I follow research in these fields pretty closely.
I also think the following article is a pretty good large-scale guide for health & fitness (apparently stemming from a different mindset from Kurzweil's, but in practice fairly similar if you're an average person - as opposed to an obsessed gym rat):
http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html
Look, we could argue till the cows come home, but I can't quite shake the feeling that veganism is just dry logic taken way too far - the all too familiar smell of dogma. You could wash your hands three times a day, or thirty times a day - and somewhere in between there's the fine line between cleanliness and OCD. You guys are crossing it.
> Perhaps you think that the human body was designed by god, and its functions were determined by his design.
ROTFL