Hypothetical question: If textbook publishers ever started releasing official Anki decks, which textbook would you choose first? 

For me, it'd be the Atlas of Anatomy. Having the authors curate the cards and use the original figures would be amazing.

Curious what everyone else would choose.

Came to this sub because I have a love hate relationship with anki. Used it throughout preclinical. Got the Step 1 P pretty early into dedicated because of it.

Starting third year I decided to drop anki and replace it with an absurd number of practice questions. Managed to score >270 on step 2 just this month. Just came here to say that anki is not “required” for those of you who despise it. Does it work? Yes. Does it make things easier? It can (be careful of anki brain, it can remove the critical thinking). Can you do well without it? Yes, 100%. Which is why I am posting.

New to the anki game... I barely used for MCAT apart from my own psych/soc deck on my phone, but now I fear it's time to bite the bullet and see if laptop anki will be my guide through M1. That being said, I've seen posts where people have a ridiculous amount of cards due in a month and its all doom 'n gloom for them. I would like to avoid this for step 1 anki... whens a good time to start? (fully aware it might be way way way too soon)

I start MS1 in a month, do I get a head start into Micro and start sketchy + anki or do I wait till first day of med?

I'm using anking deck for step1 and i've skipped my cards for 6 weeks and now I have ~900 overdue cards. What am I supposed to do regarding that i still have one year to take my exam.

Should I reset all my progress or flatten my future due cards?

And thanks in advance🙏

I’m planning on taking step as well, but is there another deck specifically geared for comlex or just use anking?

I suspended all the cards that were not tagged uword nbme or Highyiled (1-highyiled) that's still quite a lot of cards and. I don't know how to make it manageable to be honest with those filters I have about 15k cards .still seems quite impossible to me to be honest

I know alot of the sketchy cards aren't high yield and so often those go unrevised for me , and I have a short time like a month in which I wanna give exams . The sheer number of cards has been overwhelming not just going though but not getting around to review. I've been burying And suspend any that seems to easy or complicated

Those of you that did on the high yield tag ONLY for anking V12 STEP 1 how was your experience . Do you feel it would have made a difference for step 2 prepp to have done the whole deck or is the high yield with completing uworld enough ?

I'm a medical student in Australia so the US premade decks don't really apply well to me and it's just better to make my own flashcards for the content.

I am wanting to make cards for different diseases. One of the cards I want to ask is "What are the symptoms for [condition]?". I have realised that this question relies too much on rote memorisation rather than my own understanding so I have changed the question to "Use the pathophysiology of [condition] to explain its symptoms."

I am liking that question more as it lets me explain why each symptom presents but now I am worried the answer for each card will be too long if in an example answer I am listing 4-5 symptoms and then explaining why they each develop.

Does anyone have a good solution to this issue?

Hey everyone! Starting this fall and I’ve used Anki for my MCAT prep and loved it. I used premade decks and made my own cards and got the hang of it. But my question is how do I use anki in med school?

I’ve heard of AnKing- but I’m not sure what that is and if I can use it for in-house exams.

People say don’t make your own cards because the volume of info is too large- and to use premade decks and then supplement your own cards to focus on any content gaps.

The panic is starting to kick in and I’m looking for some advice! My usual pen and paper method for studying in school and for the MCAT won’t help me anymore I fear 😂

I'm Building a UWorld-Style MCQ Experience Inside Anki — Would You Use It?

A while ago I made a Reddit post, and the response was much bigger than I expected.

Since then, I've collected question banks from UWorld, AMBOSS, Mehlman, NBME, USMLERx, Amedex, CanadaQBank, MCC, eMedici, MPlusX, PassMedicine, AceQBank, BMJ OnExamination, PrometricMCQ, and BoardVitals, including images, question IDs, and tags.

I don't know much coding, but I know Anki well, and with AI coding tools I'm building an add-on that makes Anki feel like a real QBank,without touching FSRS or scheduling. It would have random exams, tutor/exam mode, timed sessions, review of incorrect questions, stats, bookmarks, and more.

Now I'm deciding what to focus on:

1. Package these question banks (with images, IDs, and tags) and sell them for a very low price compared to the official subscriptions. If someone buys them, they're free to share them with others—I don't mind that.

• know the Anki community generally dislikes paid decks, but these are some of the most important medical question banks in the world, so I'm curious what people actually think**

2. Forget selling the questionbanks and instead focus on building and monetizing the add-on, making it the best MCQ xperience possible inside Anki..

Which would you rather have? What features would make the add-on as useful as UWorld or AMBOSS?

Hello everyone - new MS1 here.

My medical school uses In house exams and isn't P/F. I went in thinking I would just make my own anki cards but the popular opinion seems to discourage this approach.

I just took a look at the Anking deck for Step 1 and it seems it wouldn't be the best for studying in house material. I'd prefer to do well with in house stuff but I'm also really wanting to do well on the Step exams and want to set myself up for success as soon as possible.

I believe this is a common problem but I'm kinda confused as to how I should go about this.

Perhaps I could make my own cards for in house material until I see more overlap between it and the Anking deck? Should I try a third party resource for in house material opposed to just making cards from lectures?

Any advice would be really appreciated.

I started preparing for Step 1 recently and solving uworld. I am doing a system wise study. While solving uworld after FA I noticed there are many many qs not mentioned in FA. I want something like an anki deck specifically for FA that can cover everything in FA. Do you guys know any such deck? Pls help

I’ve been thinking a bit about how people actually study with flashcards nowadays.

It kind of feels like there are three ways it usually happens: you build your own decks, you use shared/community decks, or you try to generate them with AI tools.

But honestly, all of them still feel a bit like workarounds.

You still end up spending a lot of time figuring out what’s actually worth using, checking if it’s correct, and then adapting it to your course or exam before you even start properly learning.

And I keep wondering if that’s just how it will always be, or if people would actually prefer something more structured—like a place where high-quality, already-reviewed flashcards exist and you just pick what matches your curriculum.

Curious how others who’ve used Anki for a long time in medicine or other heavy subjects see this.

So for some context i’ve just finished 2nd year of medicine in the UK and im starting my Step 1 studying, but my foundations are very very weak. A part of the reason I want to do step 1 is because I feel like UK medical schools don’t push you, I comfortably pass all my knowledge exams with 10-25% margins and I am by far not a smart student. It takes me maybe 4 weeks of lock-in to study for a semesters worth of content.

So I’m sitting the step 1 to force myself to learn medicine properly and I feel like my foundations are shaky. I’ve heard pathoma is a must at least Chapter 1-3, I plan on doing all of BNB but i’ve been told that it’s not the best idea to do all of pathology before physiology and maybe do Chapter 1-3 of pathoma, then do each system BNB first then pathoma? I’m a bit lost so would love some advice!

Very sorry if this has been asked before!

As the title says, I've stopped using Anki a month or so ago, after a personal record breaking 50 day streak. During which I fixed some issues with my old FSRS algorithm (I now have 2, one for my usually very easy vocabulary deck and another for my usually hard medicine decks). I've started my German reviews today, clearing over 150-ish cards without too much trouble.

However what should I do with the rest? Or should I just carry on as normal?