157: Tech Tools for Vets 2: AI-Powered Learning with StudyAnything. With Hasitha Jayatilake

About this episode

This episode discusses the AI-powered study tool StudyAnything and its benefits for veterinary students.

You know that feeling: exam time is looming. You've spent three days making flashcards and highlighting your notes, but you haven't even started actually studying yet... Whether you're a vet student drowning in slide decks, a membership candidate juggling articles and notes, or a resident trying to jam an impossible volume of clinical knowledge into your skull - the way most of us study is, frankly, not backed by the science. Which is why you might need a little help from technology: In part two of our Tech Tools for Vets series, software engineer Hasitha Jayatilake joins me to walk you through StudyAnything - an AI-powered study tool that generates quizzes from your notes, tracks your weak spots over time, and builds guided learning pathways based on Bloom's hierarchy of learning. (By the way - he built this tool because he couldn’t bare watching his vet student partner making Anki cards at 2am!) What you'll learn: How active recall and spaced repetition actually work - and why highlighting your notes is basically doing nothing What Bloom's hierarchy means for your study plan - and how Study Anything uses it to move you from rote recall to clinical application StudyAnything’s…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Hubert Hiemstra

Guest: Hasitha Jayatilake

Topics covered

• AI in veterinary education
• study tools for vets
• active recall
• spaced repetition
• Bloom's hierarchy of learning

Keywords

• veterinary science
• study tools
• AI learning
• active recall
• spaced repetition

Mentioned in this episode

Products: StudyAnything

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