Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang (Unimus) held an expert lecture on Sunday (19/12). The lecture entitled “Hematology Description to Support Diagnosys” invited Tonang Dwi Ardyanto dr SpPK PhD as resource person. He is a lecturer from Universitas Sebelas Maret. Moreover, Andri Sukesih SKM MSi led the lecture as a moderator on the agenda. The participants comprised the fifth semester to follow an internship in Hospital Laboratory in the following 2022. A hundred participants entered the Zoom Meeting and attended the lecture online.

The hematology examination as the health study which learns blood and disorder has several advantages, including the assessment in the general health condition, the indication of infection analysis, and helping doctors to diagnose the disease. Therefore, the lecture aimed to support the competence improvement in hematology. It became a supplementary material for Diploma-III Health Analyst, the Faculty of Nursery and Health Science.

As reported on the Unimus site, the hematology assessment helped to serve donor procedures and blood transfusion. Therefore, it is urgent for the medical laboratory staff and experts who have competence in hematology assessment. The hematology lecturer was the sixth lecture expert. Previously, the expert lectures of Diploma-III Health Analysts included cyto-histotechnology, parasitology, clinical chemistry, microbiology, and toxicology.

In the future plan, the lecture did not stop to discuss hematology. Afterwards, the following expert lecture discusses immune and tubex.