Viva

(Email communications between our chairman's secretary and myself.)

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Dear Professors,

The final MB Viva examination will be held on May 19, 2011 afternoon. The chairman would like to enlist your inputs for questions (and answers) to be used in the Viva examination. Please kindly provide 1-2 questions each for distinction viva and pull up viva.

With best regards, et cetera.

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Dear XX,

Please be reminded that it is the tradition to let external examiners ask whatever they like in the distinction viva. Local examiner in the viva (usually the chairman) does not ask any question.

Sincerely,

Szeto

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A few emails followed, and, at the end, being an invertebrate (probably a mollusk), I conceded. I did not put up any question - but I suggested one for the distinction viva.

Here you go:

In your opinion, what is the most important advance in internal medicine over the past 10 years?

No model answer would be provided.