The document summarizes a presentation about a placement year working in the haematology and coagulation departments at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The goals of the placement were to learn the skills of a biomedical scientist, complete an IBMS registration portfolio, and gain experience. The roles included booking specimens, quality control tests, manual testing, cleaning, and completing a literature review and synoptic portfolio. The placement provided experience in both routine and specialized testing in haematology and coagulation departments across two hospital sites.

1. Placement Year Presentation

2. What did i expect?
 Was unsure what to expect
 Apprehensive due to Covid

3. Goals
 Learn the skills of a BMS
 Complete my IBMS registration portfolio
 Complete PSP3 work
 Gain invaluable experience to bolster my graduate
CV

4. Placement location
 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Haematology and Coagulation
 Royal Hallamshire Hospital & Northern General Hospital

5. My Role
 Booking in Specimens
 QC’s / Reagents
 Manual Testing
 Thorough cleaning
 COSHH/ Risk Assessments

6. Royal Hallamshire – More specialised site
 Haematology- Generic FBC, Morpholgy, Malarial testing, Glandular fever
 Specialised - Haemolysis, HODS
 Coagulation - Generic CCS, INR’s
 Specialised – Factor assays, XA assays, Platelets, Thrombophilia, Lupus, VIIT’s

7. Haematology- Day to day jobs
 Maintaining the track
 Manual testing
 Running QC’s
 Changing reagents
 Phoning results
 Manual blood films

8. Haemolysis & HODS
 Maintain analysers
 Run QC’s etc
 Haemaglobinopathy investigations & white cell investigations

9. Coagulation – Day to Day
 Maintaining analysers
 Separating and freezing samples
 Phoning results
 Adding tests to samples
 Running QC’s
 Changing reagents
 Move and learn about each section

10. Work alongside day to day
 Completion of IBMS portfolio
 Creating a literature review
 Synoptic Portfolio
 Completing areas of PSP3 portfolio

11. IBMS Registration
Portfolio
 Gaining evidence that met the 15 SOP’s of
the HCPC
 30 in total
 1-15 on professional Conduct
 16-30 Professional Practice

12. Literature Review
 Picking a topic that I covered during my placement
 Chose to write about a new revolutionary drug called emicicuzamab.

13. Questions?