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Learn haematology at your own level.

Short videos, interactive courses and case modules in benign haematology, from first principles to FRCPath level. Free, with no registration.

Where should I start?

Quick videos

Short animated explainers

One topic in a couple of minutes. A good place to start if a subject is new to you.

  • Introductory
  • 1 min 17 s

How does blood clot after an injury?

For: students, nurses, paramedics, laboratory staff

Vessel narrowing, the platelet plug, the clotting cascade and the fibrin net.

  • Introductory
  • 1 min 46 s

Von Willebrand disease

For: students, nurses, paramedics, laboratory staff

The most common inherited bleeding disorder: why small cuts bleed longer, the three types, and how it is treated.

  • Introductory

More videos on the way

Short explainers on platelets and immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) are in preparation.

Courses

Interactive courses

A series of short animations, with questions after each part and a certificate at the end. Your progress is saved on your device, so you can stop and come back.

  • Advanced
  • Clinical
  • About 39 min
  • Certificate

Direct oral anticoagulants

For: GPs, hospital doctors, pharmacists and haematology trainees

  1. What a DOAC is, and who it is for
  2. Getting the dose right
  3. Kidneys and body weight
  4. Interactions, switching and the practical traps
  5. Talking to the patient
  6. Major bleeding on a DOAC
  7. Surgery and procedures
  • Advanced
  • Laboratory
  • About 18 min
  • Certificate

Quality assurance in the haemostasis laboratory

For: biomedical and clinical scientists, haematology trainees

  1. IQC vs EQA
  2. Accuracy, precision and error
  3. Standards, calibrators and traceability
  4. When QC fails
  5. Method dependency and reagent sensitivity
  6. Pre-analytical variables
  7. Reading and acting on an EQA report
Case modules

Learn from cases

Each case has single-best-answer questions, a worked model answer and links to the primary guidance, and is mapped to the DM curriculum. Every module mixes Core and Advanced cases.

  • Core & Advanced
  • 8 cases · 24 questions

Anaemias

For: haematology trainees (DM/DrNB, FRCPath)

Iron deficiency, B12 and folate, thalassaemia, haemolysis, marrow failure and the anaemia of chronic kidney disease.

  • Core & Advanced
  • 9 cases

Thrombocytopenia

For: haematology trainees (DM/DrNB, FRCPath)

From the platelet count that is not real to the one that is an emergency: ITP, TTP, HIT, pregnancy, dengue, cirrhosis and APL.

  • Core & Advanced

Haemostasis & thrombosis

Bleeding disorders, venous thromboembolism, when thrombophilia testing changes management, and anticoagulation decisions.

In preparation

Live teaching

Mentoring, exam preparation and study days

All live teaching is online and free of charge, with no obligation.

For individuals

  • DM & postgraduate mentoring. One-to-one, case-based teaching built around your curriculum.
  • FRCPath exam preparation. Practice cases, viva-style questioning, morphology and data interpretation.

For departments & programmes

  • Complimentary half-day study day. Recent topics: haemostasis and thrombosis, complex ITP.
  • Virtual mock MDT. Real cases worked through in a multidisciplinary format, with UK colleagues.