The long-term vision is that you walk into a clinic, hit record at the beginning of the day - you walk out at the end of the day, and you never put your hands in a computer. You just did medicine, and everything went into the right place.’

Sound too good to be true? Maybe. But it's closer than you think.

If you've already adopted a veterinary AI scribe, you'll know it's transformed your day. But scribes are just the gateway drug. The really interesting question is what your scribe connects to next - and the answer, for a growing number of vets, is the brain of the clinic itself: your practice management software.

This conversation brings together Dr Caleb Frankel, ER vet and founder of Instinct - the PIMS used by many of the world's largest specialty and emergency hospitals, and now built out for general practice too, and Rohan Relan, founder of Scribble Vet. Earlier this year, Instinct acquired Scribble - and what they're building together is a glimpse of where veterinary software could be heading.

You'll hear:

• Why up to 80% of your veterinary work day is swallowed by a keyboard
• What "beyond scribing" looks like - from infographics, to embedded drug references that update in real time as you talk, to anaesthesia records that fill themselves in from across the room.
• The "easy to verify, hard to generate" principle - why the best AI tools in clinic don't try to replace you, they let you stay in the loop without doing the grunt work.
• What it means when your scribe and your PIMS talk to each other.
• Why an "open API" matters more than you think when individual vets can magically build for their own tools.
• The tech patient safety layer that can catch your mistakes before you make them
• Where this all goes next - and why both guests believe we're still only seeing the beginning of what AI in clinical practice can do.

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We recorded this as a video with screen sharing, so if you want to follow along and see what these tools actually look like in action, watch it on Spotify.

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Topics and Timestamps

Why Instinct Acquired Scribble 2:08

Beyond Scribes: The Bigger Vision 7:48

Demo: Scribble + Instinct Integration 10:06

Plums Drug Reference Integration 11:30

Mid-Roll: Events & Announcements 14:49

Pushing Notes to Instinct 16:27

Scribble Features: Translations, Care Cards & More 19:29

Record Review & AI Verifiability 21:28

Instinct PIMS Overview 24:17

Instinct Expands to General Practice 24:51

Instinct Features: Estimates, Safety Warnings & Clinical Tools 32:03

Embedded Scribble: Voice-Controlled Anesthesia Records 38:07

AI Safety: Human in the Loop 38:46

APIs, MCP Servers & Vibe Coding for Vets 45:02

Open vs Closed PIMS Philosophy 50:39

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 guided learning pathway feature (just gone live) - that turns your uploaded notes into a structured lesson plan with concept maps, assumed knowledge, and motivational context
• How the community feature works - study groups, shared question banks, and what this means for educators (or podcast hosts!) who want to create resources
• How to generate harder questions on demand - using learning outcomes and difficulty levels to get yourself on the honours roll
• What makes this different from Notebook LM or other AI tools

This episode includes screen sharing, so if you want to follow along, watch the video on Spotify. If you prefer audio only, you'll still get 99% of the value.

The team at StudyAnything are giving Vet Vault listeners the opportunity to try out their top tier subscription (LOTS of quizzes!) with code VETVAULT at studyanything.academy for 50% off your first month on the paid plan. That's about $3.50 to give it a proper test run.

Note: This episode isn't a promotion, endorsement or an ad - it's part of our ongoing series exploring the tools you might be considering. If you have a software you'd like us to look at, let me know at info@thevetvault.com

Go to ⁠⁠⁠thevetvault.com⁠⁠ for show notes, access to our clinical continuing education content and to sign up for our weekly 'best of the Vet Vault' ⁠newsletter,⁠ or join us in person at one of our phenomenal ⁠Vets On Tour conferences. ⁠ (Look out for our upcoming New Zealand, Italy and Africa conferences.)

Topics and Timestamps

3:26 Active Recall & The Science of Studying

4:06 How StudyAnything Works - Uploading & Courses

7:57 Bloom's Hierarchy & Learning Outcomes

9:53 Ad Break - Vets on Tour

11:24 Quiz Demo

19:28 Guided Learning Pathway

20:15 File Summary, Concept Maps & Key Terms

29:10 Study Groups & Communities

31:02 Comparison with Notebook LM & Competitors

32:32 Spaced Repetition & Future Features

37:29 Pricing

39:48 Deep Dive: Navigating the Dashboard

41:00 Deep Dive: Creating & Customising Quizzes