I’ve got exams in a month, so I'd like to get through these cards as quickly as possible so I have time to mature them
They’re AnKing-style cards like in the screenshot. I usually do 100 new cards in 1-1.5 hours, but I’ve never tried doing 300-500 new cards in a day.
Hi guys,
I’ve been a lurker here for 6+ years - Anki is basically the reason I made it through med school. Now that I’m a registrar back in the trenches studying for the RACP writtens (the Austrialian physician exams), I realized the "AI revolution" hadn't actually fixed the worst part of studying: workflow friction
I tried the web apps and manual ChatGPT prompts, but downloading .apkg files or creating cards one by one after a 12-hour shift? No thanks.
So, I spent the last year coding ClozeMD. It’s a desktop app (Windows/macOS) designed to do one thing: turn your notes into cloze deletions and shoot them directly into Anki via AnkiConnect.
The Workflow:
Key Features:
The Link: https://clozemd.com/
Free trial: 20 generations, no credit card. After that it's $9 /month to keep the AI running.
I’m looking for some honest feedback from this sub:
Note: PDF/image import is on the roadmap if there’s interest, and a mobile app is coming soon so you can jot down facts during rounds and sync them to Anki when you get home.
(mods please delete post if against the rules, I've messaged for permission x2 but no reply)
Happy to answer any questions about the tech or the RACP grind in the comments!
Hi,
I’m trying to use the AnKing deck and I’m trying to study only the High Yield (HY) tagged cards for Step 1.
This is what I’ve done:
1- I went into Browse
2- I selected HY tags
3- I suspended everything else (so only HY cards are unsuspended)
4- I also flagged cards with different colours (HY, relatively HY, etc.)
The problem is this:
What I tried:
I would like to study only HY cards, but filtered by system (e.g., Cardio HY only, then GI HY only, etc.)
Is there a way to do this?
Thank you
I'm currently 27 days (4 weeks) from my exam, completed 43% of uworld
(42% correct) and recently scored 49% on NBME 27. There's still a lot of content I haven't gone through (sketchy micro, pharm, biochemistry).
I mostly learn from uworld as there's a lot of things i forgot, but not sure what to do as I would have to do 160 qs per day + NBME forms + missing content. Does anyone have any advice on passing/any hope for me? I unfortunately can't push my exam date further unless I take a year off - was planning on taking a research year and may need to take 2 years off then. plz help
I'm a med student and I've got an exam in 2 weeks. But it's not the main exam, that is 4 months later.
Currently I am getting 1400-1500 pending reviews daily, due to a recent grind on a lot of new cards.. This is overwhelming as I can't do more than 1300 a day and also cause I got sick, giving rise to a pending load of over 700.
I already have 3 different decks based on importance..Now the least important deck has about 480-520 cards daily for the next 2 weeks which I definitely know I wouldn't be able to complete, so will it be wiser for me to flatten them to say 300 or 350?
I saw the load, it averaged out the load to around 1300-1350 which seems manageable to me, I can't think of other methods as postponing is for too short a term and if I make another deck for the pending cards, I may have an even larger pile than this scenario..
I’m a non-US medical student, so I’m not preparing specifically for USMLE, but I still use the AnKing deck because many of the premade cards are helpful for my syllabus.
My current workflow is:
I take the cards that are relevant to my syllabus from the AnKing deck and export/move them into a separate deck of my own. In that same separate deck, I also create my own handmade cards from scratch.
So my personal deck contains a mix of:
The issue is that when I sync/download updates from AnkiHub for the AnKing deck, some of my handmade cards seem to get deleted or disappear.Why does this happen? Is AnkiHub treating my separate deck as part of the synced AnKing deck because it contains AnKing cards? Or could it be because of note types, note IDs, tags, or protected fields?
How can I prevent this from happening?
Ideally, I want to keep updating the AnKing cards through AnkiHub, but I also want to safely keep my own handmade cards in the same study deck or at least in my own collection without them being affected.What is the safest setup for someone like me who is not using AnKing exactly as intended for USMLE, but is selectively using relevant cards for my own medical syllabus?
Thanks!
Anki and the med school anki community has been a tremendous help and support for me throughout med school and even before. I’ve been a long time anki user and have finally made it to the other side.
With this, it’s thankfully given me more time on my hands. I’ve had some ideas of what I wish existed as a medical student and was wondering to hear from others what they wish existed but currently does not. Would love to hear ideas of how I/we could improve anki for the future. I think this is especially relevant today with all the ongoing change in technology, which has given us the opportunity to make it happen
Hey guys! I am looking for pepper style cards for sketchy clinicals. Can anybody share them pretty please!
This add-on is 100% free ($0).
As a med student, I needed a way to stop losing focus and breaking my streaks, so I used Claude to help me build this. It has a few main features:
I put the download file on my Reddit profile if you want to try it out. Happy studying and good luck with your reviews! 🩺
I used Anking but it is the longest and most draining decks it doesn't give me any insight to the uworld questions and i feel like i just waste my time with 40.000 cards the janki deck for step 2 was perfect when i used it short and sweet to the point. but i want an equivalent for step 1
MS1 here. Anki works well for me but I’m struggling with keeping up with reviews.
My school does a 3-week block system, and I can barely keep up within a block. I usually have ~500 (+/- 100) reviews each day to slog through before news. I’m scoring well on in-house exams ( ~85–92%), so the content is sticking when I take MC exams.
my card count is ~1200–1400 / day, averaging about 10s / card. I add about 250 new cards/day (using HY / relatively HY / temp tags from B&B + FA -- we have a doc correlating them to lectures) to keep up with content. my again count is ~55% learning, ~29% young.
Now I’ve got a ~7k review backlog from MS1 that I want to clean up over the summer and actually stay on top of moving forward for MS2.
With anki being my main study method I'm really questioning why I cant keep up but so many people can -- making me think I'm being inefficient somewhere. do I just need more AIS time with cards to power through or am I using again too often, or spending more time on cards? figured if I can find where I am lagging it may be easier to target.
I do know a handful of people at my school are keeping up with past blocks. they weren't able to offer me much besides "its tough but I prioritize it and do it" -- but I really feel like I am running out of hours in the day to keep up. thanks.
Did not maintain reviews between preclinical blocks, and stopped anki since passing step 1, now starting MS3 next week and realizing a lot of my intervals are way too long for the clerkship timeline. So I'm feeling like the best move is to reset all the step 2 tagged anki cards to new, and start fresh. I also feel like I know nothing and forgot a lot of content as I'm assuming I will need to do extra work for my clinical knowledge. I either do that or I just chugg reviews and constantly hit again to keep the intervals within a reasonable timeframe. I don't like that because it feels non-productive for FSRS to work its magic. So not sure what to do and looking for advice from people who were in similar situations. Thanks.
ive had the anking deck for months and i cant get all the images to show up, can anyone explain what i need to do to get them to show up? ive tried syncing and its not doing anything.
As the title states, I'm making a deck based on the Mass General Hospital intern handbook (the whitebook). There are only like 55 notes covering 20 topics in there so far, but it is growing each week.
These are difficult cards that are topic-encompassing, with 4 to 7 click-to-review one-by-one answers. They are hard and meant for those already introduced to the topics! 4th year or graduated MD. Under each card in the lecture notes is a screenshot from the current MGH manual
https://app.ankihub.net/decks/b98718f7-9bcd-40a5-a1f1-3a4739173fdf
Give me feedback if you like! Examples shown below.
is the stouchi ring remote any good? i’ve seen mixed reviews and it looks different on their site compared to in reviews. amazon doesn’t ship it to australia.
Thanks to Anking, which I've been keeping up with all my cards religiously from M1 onwards, I was able to take Step 1 in early March. If I really wanted to I could have done it earlier as well, all thanks to Anki. For the videos I watched, I did BnB and Pathoma cards, along with sketchy and pixorize whenever relevant. Keeping up with cards gave me a massive advantage before dedicated began, and it stopped me from having to do a massive content review phase. I did my cards everyday, with a few exceptions and day offs. Rarely suspended cards and did not bother with high yield vs low yield tags. I also did not use FSRS which might be controversial, and didn't feel a deficit by not using it compared to my peers. Clinical start late may, so I have gotten these last 1.5 months to relax and I still have a month left. ✌️
As I'm sure many non-american and non-european med students can relate, I'm spending most of my time crafting my decks than actually doing them. The problem to this is that I need to use anki waaaay before the topic in question is discussed and "tested".
Evidently, I need to be ahead of time. Question is, how much? A month? It's a huge PITA. It's hard to see how anki could work like this.
Then there's also my approach. I start reading my textbook and write basic cards, cloze cards and image occlusion cards. I stop each 10 cards as to keep up with what I'm actually learning... kind of like an active recall. How could I improve this?
I'm open to suggestions and experiences of those who use this wonderful tool without pre-made decks.
Hello, when I was studying for STEP 1 I found premade STEP1 tags for each of the NBMEs already made within AN_KING,
Is anyone aware of any decks like this for STEP 2 N_BME exams? It really helps to solidify and reinforce common concepts across forms.
