What Will You Learn?

• On completion of the course, the student should be able to: - describe and explain the formation and function of blood cells. - give examples of anaemia, infections and hematologic malignancies with an emphasis on diagnostics. - demonstrate the importance of hematologic analyses and examinations to determine diagnoses. independent apply skills in light microscopic analysis to distinguish normal blood cells, as well as different blood cells, in macrocytic and microcytic anaemia, hematologic malignancies, and in bacterial infections/viral infections.