Nevertheless, this remains a good option for the textbook-oriented students who want to incorporate anki. Furthermore, many medical school students are turned off by the fact they are committing so much time to learn facts some may deem to be lower yield for USMLE or COMLEX board exams. Of course, the similar issue of card count is created with a deck this large. While less popular than Zanki, it has quickly earned itself a reputation of being a powerhouse of preclinical content that can help you prepare for difficult inhouse exams, while also helping you prepare for boards. Notable examples include Ganong’s Physiology, BRS Biochemistry and Genetics, and Nolte’s Neuroanatomy. However, this medical school student wanted a deck that would include both the high yield information found in First Aid and Pathoma, as well as content from other popular preclinical textbooks. It also toutes a card count of over 25,000. To fill in the lack of in-dept medical content left out by other decks, the reddit user u/Dope_MS created his Dope 1: Medical school Science deck. An example of the tagging system is shown below. What resulted was a near comprehensive deck for Step 1 that will undoubtedly also help prepare you for class. While the reddit user u/Lightyear2k is the original creator of this deck, u/Cheesy_Doritos revamped it to include tags for every video module, screenshots, and even additions from the Zanki deck to improve or cover missing topics. The card count is necessarily on the higher end at more than 25,000 cards, but can seem shorter when done in chunks after every video and over the span of your preclinical years. This streamlined workflow has garnered wide popularity among students and attracts many would-be Zanki users. For example, you can simply watch a Boards and Beyond lecture and unsuspend the corresponding cards. It is a deck that closely follows this resource video by video and is extensively tagged to enable ease of use.
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Jason Ryan’s video lecture series Boards and Beyond. This deck has a very clear target audience: Users of Dr. It also adopts a cloze-style format, in which a sentence will be shown with a key word missing. It is meticulously tagged, making it easy to search topics in the sidebar of Anki’s browser. Lastly, it is worth noting the format of this deck. If your medical school exams require you to know detailed information not found in First Aid, you may find insufficient detail in this deck to carry you to an A. Furthermore, the focus on high yield information mostly stems from the source material.
However, for the uninitiated, medical school can be very demanding, and keeping up with daily reviews can easily see you exceeding a thousand cards a day. Don’t get me wrong these “drawbacks” can very easily be perceived as strengths. There are two main drawbacks you should know before jumping on this deck – its card count and its focus on high yield information. As far as preclinical decks go, this is very clearly the most popular one you can choose from. It has been meticulously revamped several times to include missing high yield information from all medical school subjects.
It toutes a card count of over 25,000 and attempts to comprehensively cover most facts found in First Aid for the USMLE Step 1, Costanzo Physiology, Pathoma, and Sketchy Pharmacology/Microbiology. It was created by a medical student with the reddit username, u/ZankiStep1, and later expanded upon by many more medical students.
This deck has quickly become one of the most popular among which to choose. Zanki (Anking’s updated version) – Step 1.Let’s start off by describing what the differences in decks are, and then lets discuss how you can go about choosing the right deck. With all this said, have you chosen a deck to start using? Whether you are in your first week of medical school or entering your dedicated board exam study period, there are decks that will be right for you. The powerful spaced repetition algorithm offers students a means to both learn and retain information like never before. Anki is quickly becoming a mainstay learning tool in medical school.
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