Overwhelmed with Anki? Watch This
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- Overwhelmed with Anki? Watch This
Feeling overwhelmed with Anki while prepping for USMLE Step 1 or Step 2? In this video, we explore the top mistakes med students make with Anki and how to fix them. Discover how to manage your Anki cards effectively, avoid overload, and optimize your USMLE preparation for both Step 1 and Step 2.
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New to anki and was going way overboard with my info on each card. This helps a lot. Cheers
Glad to hear it!!
Excellent video Alec, I was recently wondering what kind of pace I needed to add cards every day, I'm gonna try this and see how it works for me
Glad it helped! The most important thing in the beginning is to just establish the habit of making and doing cards every single day. Even if itâs only a fraction of what you learn, never forgetting it is a remarkably powerful tool, especially when compounded over months and even years.
@@alec.palmerton_md Youâre right, and Iâm probably gonna do what you said because I have been doing nonsense cards really haha, I use premade decks because of the time, but I will suspend some questions that really donât give anything
Sounds like a good plan!
FSRS is a perfect solution to get the same retention with a far reduced overload /day.
Try to make a video about it
50 new cards per day is way too low for medical school (especially anking). The only way i see that working is if you made your own cards but even then with 10-15 lectures per week idk if 50 is realistic. I've found that my week of lectures with new cards in decreasing fashion starting over the weekend and ending by Tuesday helps keep the overall cards down because as the load for new cards decreases the learning and reviews increase nicely and by the end of the week I have no more new cards to do so my overall average remains descent. Since starting first year I've never had *no more than 350 reviews* in one day and I've done about ~4000 cards.
For sure, if you use premade decks like Anking there is a 0% chance that 50 new cards per day will be enough. Thatâs because youâd be trying to get through tens of thousands of cards in a year or two. FWIW I limited myself to 50 new cards per day, and by the end of my second year, I was doing about 350 to 400-ish old reviews per day. By the end of med school, I was doing maybe 100 old reviews per day, since I accumulated so much knowledge that I didnât really need to add nearly as many cards. That number has held throughout residency and afterwards.
@@alec.palmerton_md That is so facts. Looking into the future I will definitely try to make higher ordered learning cards so that i use anki to remember only relevant & important info and not just every piece of material. Especially w P/F step 1. Great video!
Sounds like a great plan!! Itâs amazing how many fewer cards you have to make if you focus on higher order concepts as opposed to just memorizing everything like a fact. I made cards on everything through medical school and residency, and still ended up with fewer than 20,000 cards. Thatâs crazy when you consider that even one of the Anking decks for Step 1 or Step 2 is tens of thousands of cards more than thatâĶ
Can you please talk about the settings and fsrs?
How do i know which information or concept is important to make anki cards on?
Great question, it often times pays to use something like First Aid (if studying for USMLEs) or other sort of high level overview-type book as a âfilterâ so you can focus your cards on the highest yield information. I would highly recommend this video for more: th-cam.com/video/itJJpOWY9Aw/w-d-xo.html