Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Human Blood and Blood Functions
This short online course on the human blood covered aspects related to blood components, their functions and factors determining blood group type. The course has also covered important, commonly found diseases related to blood and discussed the side effects of a mismatched blood group transfusion. The contents of this course provided a beginner’s level of understanding of the basic functions of the human blood.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr. Maziah Mat Rosly
Medical Lecturer
Universiti Malaya
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Justify the impacts of learning about blood and what it can bring for the future.
- Describe the various functions of the blood components.
- Explain issues that can arise from diseases related to the blood.
- Classify the available blood groups in humans and the importance of each blood group.
Syllabus
- Blood and the different components of blood
- Functions of blood and its different constituents
- The roles of erythrocytes, leucocytes and platelet
- The main events in haemostasis
- ABO and rhesus blood groups including universal donor and recipient
- Compatibility between blood types during transfusion
Issued on 2nd March 2026
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