This was done during cram modes. Studying premade cards may be ideal for board exams but you will need to create your own cards from lecture material or other resources in order to do well on your school exams. This is about to drop though as I’ve got tests next week and will stop doing new cards for a while so that I can focus on class ppts. PPTs for class are the very bottom of my priority list. You should be able to do ~ 3 rounds of this without tiring too much out if you're used to studying long hours. Unlike studying an entire lecture, Anki cards are self-contained, meaning reviewing even 5 cards in the course of one or two minutes is a good use of your time. 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. There is a good reason: spaced repetition helps you remember anything, forever. Apr 12 How I Use ANKI in Medical School . Creating Anki cards and optimizing your learning in medical school is no easy task. (But that was back when I used Anki 2.0.) I haven't had above 120 cards a day. Any special methods? I have a total of 6-7 decks with some shorter and no new cards so I do about 20 new cards daily and 60-80 reviews. So those didn't take long. I review anki daily. When I first started using anki, I would tag all cards based on the lecture they came from and what block they were from. But I’ve seen other people doing wayyyy more, Max I've done was about 400 but I've reviewed the cards before. Now that I am more than halfway done with my first year of medical school, I’ve finally gotten a han d le on my learning style. 2. Stopped for now to read first aid again. How the fuck do you guys do 1000+ reviews plus Qbank questions plus research stuff plus staying on top of class? Out of the many card types, I have found that the “Cloze” card type was the most flexible one—also the easiest to create. Lol unlike the maniacs here, I do like 150-200 reviews a day, 40-60 news. I’ve been using Anki since day one of medical school with great success. Some of you might … Back in M2 i did 60-70 newsa day at tops and definitely not everyday all year, reviews topped out around 300-400 i think. This makes for some huge spikes in reviews, Try load balancer add-on, it’s a life savior. They pray for high scores that will lead them to the residency of their dreams. I use Speed focus to put a timer on my cards to help me stay focused and get through a lot of cards in one day. Used to take me 2-3 hours split throughout the day, Oh sweet, yeah I tend to do like 300-400 reviews and a 100 new cards and that took me a while, can't imagine what it's like doing nearly 1000 reviews and 200 news... Would take me all day. If you're not zipping through the questions with that many scheduled cards I find I don't retain much after about 100 of cards when reviewing them the first time. How many reviews do you tend to do? Sometimes I skip a day. I have done 500 max for one day. My 2c (just hypothetical) I'm not sure how useful it would be depending on what your exam date was. In Med school, if you have long term board study stuff, just do less cards per day over a longer period. An Image Occlusion flashcard using Anki. 1x Pathoma and 0.5x FA throughout the school year. If I can't I'll go through BRS for the corresponding card/google/BnB. Week of Medical School Exam: I would tend to go through 4-5 lectures in the first few days of studying. I try to do some flash card a day ~50-100 to try to stay on top of it. Learn more What was once 20 minutes a day is now 30 minutes or more, albeit I am studying more words each session. Maximum of 50 new cards per day, on average 30 cards added per day. Most students will have tried Anki in med school. Don’t bring your morale down for a bad day of Anki, it happens. 800 new cards or 800 news+reviews in one day? Completing your daily quota of multiple choice questions is more important than completing every single Anki review, however. If you're doing new cards, you can probably plow through ~100 new/hour of studying. I figure that if the Anki cards are piling up so much, I … ... Find many pre made decks in the Medical School Anki Subreddit sidebar or google search, AnKing deck is … Lay the Foundations First. Short Answer: Do your cards every day! This tip is based on the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, … I need to weed out the old decks that I no longer need. Well, if you are talking about new cards, it can be tough depending on how comfortable with the material you are. It's a commitment (I have around 12000 cards total now, and review anywhere from 200-400 old cards per day while making an additional 50-200 cards per day on most days - most of which is probably a bit excessive), but it's also my primary method of study, and no one ever said medical school …