Today I'm joined by a very special guest in Maddie. Maddie sat the 2025.1 exam and won the Renton! She has kindly given some of her time to share her tips leading into the last week before the vivas (02:20) and offered to give some examples opening viva stem answers (11:56). We go through more than 30 stems in total with the second half later in the episode (39:14). In between she gives some advice regarding how to transition from SAQ to Viva mode following the written (21:02). There are some amazing hidden gems she shares, and I want to thank her for taking the time to do this!! Hope you guys enjoy and thanks for watching! As always if you have any feedback let me know at anirudh@sweetdreamsanaesthesia.com

Today I'm back doing a 'Live Practice Viva'. Thanks to Derek for doing this and Celia for being a special guest examiner again!! I hope you get some technical and non-technical skills from the video. As per previous episodes we covered four topics which were: Isomers/Warfarin (04:08), Resipratory changes in Pregnancy (09:08), Nausea & Vomiting (14:08) and Atelectasis & Peep (19:08). We then go through some feedback. Hope you guys enjoy and thanks for watching! As always if you have any feedback let me know at anirudh@sweetdreamsanaesthesia.com

With the 2025.2 written now in the books I thought I would review this most recent paper. Harry and Robbie join me today to help with this and they will also be educating me on the use of AI. Today's episode has 2-parts, the first is a look at how AI can be used as an adjunct to study. The second (27:49), I will go through the 2025.2 exam paper blind in persual conditions while Harry and Robbie will do the same but using AI to generate a guide to what you should write in the perusal time to help better answer the question. This was an eye-opening episode for me and it showed that AI is used properly it can have a lot of credibility in the answers it's providing. It also not just an answering tool and if we can use it in the right way, it may very well change the way we teach in the future. Thanks for listening! As always if you have any feedback let me know @ anirudh@sweetdreamsanaesthesia.com