Thank you for your video. What is the most effective way to use Anki to learn the Krebs cycle (in order and not in order--as if to know it cold, back and front, forwards and backwards)? The catch with Anki is that I would have to make 1 card with all of the cycle components, instead of 1 card with 1 cycle component. I wanted 1 card to test only 1 detail. However, Image Cloze deletion would give me the hint location for the answer I am looking for. How would you go about learning the Kreb Cycle or other complex cycle/pathway/or medical diagnostic pathway effectively?
you read my mind!!! I was going to ask you whether you still use it or not. I still use it (2nd year IM resident) but mostly as a second brain. It has saved me sooo many times when discussing things with my fellow residents especially when I have the reference mentioned. I will get back to the studying anki daily now that you motivated me. - It takes a lot of time to actually do notes ( I like to make notes of every single thing) I have one question for you: - How do you make cards in residency? what do you think is card worthy? MKSAP? stuff you read here and there?
Thank you for your comment M! Glad to motivate you to getting back into the Anki habit :D When I was doing UWorld and Step 3 review, I would make a card for almost every question I got wrong (which I plan to do once I get back into MKSAP as well). Otherwise, my main source of cards is definitely from little tidbits that I learn while in the hospital. I write down anything I learn onto the back of my patient list and usually once every week or so I will sit down and convert them into Anki cards. Usually when I do this I end up going on UpToDate or Google Images to look up other stuff and sometimes I'll find a few extra details to make cards on as well. All in all I probably only add like 10-30 cards every couple of weeks (during this time that I'm not doing UWorld) so it is extremely sustainable!
Hey Conan! Love your videos, keep up the great work! I'm a third year medical student and your videos are an amazing source of mentorship and advice for both medicine and life. I really like using Anki but I'm having trouble dealing with lists like a differential diagnosis for hyperkalemia or risk factors for coronary artery disease. I was wondering how you memorize long differentials that are so common in internal medicine? I have tried using frameworks but ultimately I forget these frameworks if I don't use them often. Would love to get your thoughts on how you approach Ddx or lists in general. Also, would you be able make a Guide to Internal Medicine rotation video? I have my core rotation coming up soon and getting your advice on what to expect with tips and tricks would be very helpful! Thanks so much!
Greta video! I am currently on a 600 day streak. What resonated with me in this video is you mentioning that often you can't access a certain fact on your own but then when it comes up in context you know it. This happens to me a lot aswell. After studying and doing anki cards I usually am not able to recall everything about a certain topic e.g. I couldn't give a presentation on the whole topic off the top of my head but then when it comes up in a multiple choice question I can recall what I learned. I was worried that that means I am not studying the topics well enough. What is your take on this?
Hi Jakob! Thanks for your kind comment and glad you liked the video :) I find that the biggest strength of Anki really gets unlocked after you encounter something in real life (whether its while you are working in the hospital or in a specific scenario when studying languages or on a multiple choice question). The Anki card that comes after just continually reinforces that fact over and over again and helps you remember that scenario so much better. Being able to present a topic off the top of your head comes with time and isn't really what Anki trains you for, but I do find that it helps a lot because it helps you remember key points. I think the "being able to recall what I learned" feeling you have is exactly a good place to be with your Anki reviews!
The downside of anki is that you realise how much you forget but honestly anything super really important will never be lost if you truly believe it's important. I don't think anki alters the way you learn but make your realise how you actually learn. Otherwise our brains would adapt to watching lectures once and we'd get 95% of the answers correct.
I'm in internal medicine! My Anki decks for Step 1 include SketchyMicro/Pharm/Path cards which can be found on reddit/r/medicalschoolanki and then cards I created by myself. I really think making your own cards is the best way to go because you can tailor your studying to your own exact needs!
Hey Conan! Greetings from Argentina! I subscribed to your channel almost 2 years ago! Today I'm going to ask you for advice / help if it's not a bother. Several years I have tried to use anki, but I never manage to last a whole year or at least six months using it, it is not due to lack of time or discipline. My problem is that I fail to handle the cards. Right now I am on vacation and I want to prepare for next year where I will see physiology (Guyton & Hall and Linda S Costanzo, these are 2 books that I will use) and also biochemistry. The teachers get very deep into the subjects. Using study material for step 1 is not convenient for me (apart from the fact that these materials are aimed at people who already know what it is about). Sorry for the long post (I wanted to give some context haha) I'm going to be adding probably 100-200 new cards weekly .. How can I retain the information without having 100,000 reviews a day after a few months of adding new cards? What do you recommend? Thanks in advance and your videos are very good!
Hey SnowFly! Thank you so much for your comment :) First of all, great work trying to make Anki work. It takes a bit of experimentation until you can create a system that works perfectly for you. It sounds like you are making your own cards which I think is great. If you've seen my Guide to Anki Intervals, I recommend two things: 1) make cards as simple and as easy as possible and 2) increase your learning steps so that you see cards less often. Both of those techniques should help a little with having too many reviews. My other advice for you is this: if you are struggling to keep up with a habit of using Anki because there are simply too many reviews - just try making less cards each week! Pick out only the most important things that you want to remember long-term and only do the amount of reviews that would be sustainable for you. I would much rather you add only 20-30 cards a week and continue a daily practice of Anki instead of going super intense with 200 new cards a week and then burning out after a couple weeks! Hope that helps! :)
@@ConanLiuMD Thanks for answering me! I'm going to try to reduce the total weekly cards a bit and maybe space the steps a little, although I am a little afraid that later it will be very difficult for me to remember, haha. I think that the first quarter of the year I will see at least 3 or 4 topics per week, I will try at least not to exceed 100 weekly cards at the most. Each topic has a lecture that can last 1 hour and a half or 2 hours, so I think creating 25-30 cards per lecture sounds fair! In case they end up being a lot of cards ... I will have to make even fewer cards and memorize the rest in another way haha
can you tell us while you are working in the hospital and something pop into your mind how u can reach the topic that you want between all cards it will be difficult, any tip or easy way regards this matter?!
Hey, are there any particular resources you use during residency to make cards from (MKSAP?) or are you mostly making them based off information you come across in the hospital?
Mainly all from things I learned in the hospital / on wards / during rounding! But while doing Step 3 and boards studying I definitely made cards on UWorld/MKSAP questions as well.
I like the way you described using 1 card for 1 discrete information to learn. However, I am not sure how to do this to put in flash card to test only 1 detail when trying to memorize ALL of the entire Kreb Cycle process from memory, since I would need a flash card of the prior information card along the Kreb Cycle, according to your method, but the card I am using at the moment is just 1 detail. How do I reconcile this? Thank you so much for your tips and advice!! Keep up the great work!
One of the things I like to do is test one aspect or detail of a complicated topic like the Kreb's cycle, but on the back or "Extra" portion of the Anki card - I put an image or overview of the whole topic itself so I can see how everything fits in to the big picture! To be honest maybe the Kreb's cycle wasn't the best example because even now I don't have it really completely memorized since it's kind of unnecessary . . . but I do have cards on a lot of the key, important points that we would be expected to know if we had to re-learn it again haha
Do you review all the decks you've made ever? Or do you limit yourself to a specific number of cards? If you do, about how many cards do you review a day?
I review about 20 cards a day in a deck of about 17,000 cards, since most of the intervals are multiple years at this point. I don't set a limit, that's just how many are due for the day. It's been very nice! I'll probably make a video detailing my Anki usage again soon. But yes I do try to review all the cards I've made starting since 2nd year of medical school essentially.
Hello dr conan! How did you use anki when studying for exams in medical school. Do you just make cards from the ppt and never visit the slides again? Was anki your only studying tool in medschool?
I don't think so! I often include extra information on the back of the card that appears after you get the answer correct. Also when I'm searching things up, it will pull up all cards that are related to that topic. For example if I search "bacteremia" it will find all the cards in my deck that I've ever used that term in - really helps me look at all the different cards I've made on the subject all at once and connect them together!
How do you suggest creating cards that can't be broken down into single, discrete pieces of information? For example, side effects or contraindications of drugs?
Hey Conan how long do you think it takes to see the effect of Anki ? We have weekly quizzes and then final at the end of the batch so my worry was that it’s just not enough time to make use of active recall or spaced repetition. What’s your opinion on this? I’ve been doing notes and questions on word but it’s really time consuming and for this week I’ve decided to take the plunge and try Anki. Still making the cards but at least I’m going through each slide in order to make the cards
When you were a medical student, have you ever suspended cards after each block exam or did you keep doing them on top of learning new material? I wonder if it's worth the time investment because learning new material takes up a lot of time especially when second year hits? Thank you!
I used my own cards! I can't recommend going through the process of making your own cards enough, though it's personal preference for sure. I never enjoyed the premade decks much
Start slowly. Make a flashcard for each day you don't have a review flashcard so you answer everyday one card. You can start even slower making a card per week
What is your experience using Anki long-term? Do you think you will incorporate a practice of daily Anki into your life? Let me know! :)
Thank you for your video. What is the most effective way to use Anki to learn the Krebs cycle (in order and not in order--as if to know it cold, back and front, forwards and backwards)? The catch with Anki is that I would have to make 1 card with all of the cycle components, instead of 1 card with 1 cycle component. I wanted 1 card to test only 1 detail. However, Image Cloze deletion would give me the hint location for the answer I am looking for. How would you go about learning the Kreb Cycle or other complex cycle/pathway/or medical diagnostic pathway effectively?
I have just started using ANKI, thanks for your videos especially the algorithm explanation one.
Started using for 1 week straight and YOU ARE 1000000% Accurate. Hoping it helps with my med school exams
Can you please do a video on your anki schedule? Like when you do your dues, new cards..etc
I'm about to start PA school and plan to use Anki for most of the studying.
You are King!
That’s incredible. Only 15 minutes a day to maintain 15 thousand cards worth of information! The brain is an amazing piece of machinery!
I absolutely agree!!
im inspired to do as well thank you for the video!
great video super insightful
you read my mind!!! I was going to ask you whether you still use it or not. I still use it (2nd year IM resident) but mostly as a second brain. It has saved me sooo many times when discussing things with my fellow residents especially when I have the reference mentioned. I will get back to the studying anki daily now that you motivated me.
- It takes a lot of time to actually do notes ( I like to make notes of every single thing)
I have one question for you:
- How do you make cards in residency? what do you think is card worthy? MKSAP? stuff you read here and there?
Thank you for your comment M! Glad to motivate you to getting back into the Anki habit :D When I was doing UWorld and Step 3 review, I would make a card for almost every question I got wrong (which I plan to do once I get back into MKSAP as well). Otherwise, my main source of cards is definitely from little tidbits that I learn while in the hospital. I write down anything I learn onto the back of my patient list and usually once every week or so I will sit down and convert them into Anki cards. Usually when I do this I end up going on UpToDate or Google Images to look up other stuff and sometimes I'll find a few extra details to make cards on as well. All in all I probably only add like 10-30 cards every couple of weeks (during this time that I'm not doing UWorld) so it is extremely sustainable!
Hey Conan!
Love your videos, keep up the great work! I'm a third year medical student and your videos are an amazing source of mentorship and advice for both medicine and life. I really like using Anki but I'm having trouble dealing with lists like a differential diagnosis for hyperkalemia or risk factors for coronary artery disease. I was wondering how you memorize long differentials that are so common in internal medicine? I have tried using frameworks but ultimately I forget these frameworks if I don't use them often. Would love to get your thoughts on how you approach Ddx or lists in general.
Also, would you be able make a Guide to Internal Medicine rotation video? I have my core rotation coming up soon and getting your advice on what to expect with tips and tricks would be very helpful!
Thanks so much!
Can you share your deck + settings?? 👀
Great video, thank you!
very inspiring, thank you
Thank you for your comment and good luck with your Anki journey :D
LOVE IT
Exactly, If you know you will use the information later, then make an anki card
Greta video! I am currently on a 600 day streak. What resonated with me in this video is you mentioning that often you can't access a certain fact on your own but then when it comes up in context you know it. This happens to me a lot aswell. After studying and doing anki cards I usually am not able to recall everything about a certain topic e.g. I couldn't give a presentation on the whole topic off the top of my head but then when it comes up in a multiple choice question I can recall what I learned. I was worried that that means I am not studying the topics well enough. What is your take on this?
Hi Jakob! Thanks for your kind comment and glad you liked the video :) I find that the biggest strength of Anki really gets unlocked after you encounter something in real life (whether its while you are working in the hospital or in a specific scenario when studying languages or on a multiple choice question). The Anki card that comes after just continually reinforces that fact over and over again and helps you remember that scenario so much better. Being able to present a topic off the top of your head comes with time and isn't really what Anki trains you for, but I do find that it helps a lot because it helps you remember key points. I think the "being able to recall what I learned" feeling you have is exactly a good place to be with your Anki reviews!
@@ConanLiuMD Great! Thanks so much for taking the time to answer. All the best.
Welcome to "Anki Encephalitis" club.
We're welcome everyone who forget their friends and hobbies
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The downside of anki is that you realise how much you forget but honestly anything super really important will never be lost if you truly believe it's important. I don't think anki alters the way you learn but make your realise how you actually learn. Otherwise our brains would adapt to watching lectures once and we'd get 95% of the answers correct.
Your cat is adorable
Dr. Liu, thank you for this video. What deck do you use?
Make my own cards!
can you please share some of your anki decks for step 1 and step 2 also mention your speciality?
I'm in internal medicine! My Anki decks for Step 1 include SketchyMicro/Pharm/Path cards which can be found on reddit/r/medicalschoolanki and then cards I created by myself. I really think making your own cards is the best way to go because you can tailor your studying to your own exact needs!
can you share your anki configuration please?
Hey Conan! Greetings from Argentina! I subscribed to your channel almost 2 years ago!
Today I'm going to ask you for advice / help if it's not a bother.
Several years I have tried to use anki, but I never manage to last a whole year or at least six months using it, it is not due to lack of time or discipline.
My problem is that I fail to handle the cards. Right now I am on vacation and I want to prepare for next year where I will see physiology (Guyton & Hall and Linda S Costanzo, these are 2 books that I will use) and also biochemistry. The teachers get very deep into the subjects. Using study material for step 1 is not convenient for me (apart from the fact that these materials are aimed at people who already know what it is about).
Sorry for the long post (I wanted to give some context haha) I'm going to be adding probably 100-200 new cards weekly .. How can I retain the information without having 100,000 reviews a day after a few months of adding new cards? What do you recommend?
Thanks in advance and your videos are very good!
Hey SnowFly! Thank you so much for your comment :) First of all, great work trying to make Anki work. It takes a bit of experimentation until you can create a system that works perfectly for you. It sounds like you are making your own cards which I think is great. If you've seen my Guide to Anki Intervals, I recommend two things: 1) make cards as simple and as easy as possible and 2) increase your learning steps so that you see cards less often. Both of those techniques should help a little with having too many reviews.
My other advice for you is this: if you are struggling to keep up with a habit of using Anki because there are simply too many reviews - just try making less cards each week! Pick out only the most important things that you want to remember long-term and only do the amount of reviews that would be sustainable for you. I would much rather you add only 20-30 cards a week and continue a daily practice of Anki instead of going super intense with 200 new cards a week and then burning out after a couple weeks!
Hope that helps! :)
@@ConanLiuMD
Thanks for answering me! I'm going to try to reduce the total weekly cards a bit and maybe space the steps a little, although I am a little afraid that later it will be very difficult for me to remember, haha.
I think that the first quarter of the year I will see at least 3 or 4 topics per week, I will try at least not to exceed 100 weekly cards at the most. Each topic has a lecture that can last 1 hour and a half or 2 hours, so I think creating 25-30 cards per lecture sounds fair! In case they end up being a lot of cards ... I will have to make even fewer cards and memorize the rest in another way haha
Hey, do you study medicine in buenos aires? I study at UAI
@@Icmviola Yup! I'm studying at Barcelo, quite close to UAI, haha.
@@SnowFlyGG yep haha thought about moving to barcelo, how are you liking it so far? I had some misunderstandings with my uni
can you tell us while you are working in the hospital and something pop into your mind how u can reach the topic that you want between all cards it will be difficult, any tip or easy way regards this matter?!
I just go to my Anki app and hit browse, then I search in the topic I'm looking for and a bunch of my cards will show up right away!
Hey, are there any particular resources you use during residency to make cards from (MKSAP?) or are you mostly making them based off information you come across in the hospital?
Mainly all from things I learned in the hospital / on wards / during rounding! But while doing Step 3 and boards studying I definitely made cards on UWorld/MKSAP questions as well.
I like the way you described using 1 card for 1 discrete information to learn. However, I am not sure how to do this to put in flash card to test only 1 detail when trying to memorize ALL of the entire Kreb Cycle process from memory, since I would need a flash card of the prior information card along the Kreb Cycle, according to your method, but the card I am using at the moment is just 1 detail. How do I reconcile this? Thank you so much for your tips and advice!! Keep up the great work!
One of the things I like to do is test one aspect or detail of a complicated topic like the Kreb's cycle, but on the back or "Extra" portion of the Anki card - I put an image or overview of the whole topic itself so I can see how everything fits in to the big picture! To be honest maybe the Kreb's cycle wasn't the best example because even now I don't have it really completely memorized since it's kind of unnecessary . . . but I do have cards on a lot of the key, important points that we would be expected to know if we had to re-learn it again haha
Do you review all the decks you've made ever? Or do you limit yourself to a specific number of cards? If you do, about how many cards do you review a day?
I review about 20 cards a day in a deck of about 17,000 cards, since most of the intervals are multiple years at this point. I don't set a limit, that's just how many are due for the day. It's been very nice! I'll probably make a video detailing my Anki usage again soon. But yes I do try to review all the cards I've made starting since 2nd year of medical school essentially.
Hello dr conan! How did you use anki when studying for exams in medical school. Do you just make cards from the ppt and never visit the slides again? Was anki your only studying tool in medschool?
Anki and UWorld!
Are you concerned that by making the information discrete, it will affect your ability to connect said information?
I don't think so! I often include extra information on the back of the card that appears after you get the answer correct. Also when I'm searching things up, it will pull up all cards that are related to that topic. For example if I search "bacteremia" it will find all the cards in my deck that I've ever used that term in - really helps me look at all the different cards I've made on the subject all at once and connect them together!
Hi Conan, can you please share with us your anki cards? is there way to get a link for them, thank you in advance
当过到一本好书的时候，我总想着把内容做成Anki卡片，然而工程量很大，这很费时间，让我头疼
Can you please tell me how to use Anki to remember whether to 3 or 5 hatch hydra vs Protoss FE??
😂 Wow, old school BW strats!! :D
How do you suggest creating cards that can't be broken down into single, discrete pieces of information? For example, side effects or contraindications of drugs?
Hey Conan how long do you think it takes to see the effect of Anki ? We have weekly quizzes and then final at the end of the batch so my worry was that it’s just not enough time to make use of active recall or spaced repetition. What’s your opinion on this? I’ve been doing notes and questions on word but it’s really time consuming and for this week I’ve decided to take the plunge and try Anki. Still making the cards but at least I’m going through each slide in order to make the cards
I think just a few weeks to start getting benefits from Anki, but the longer you do it the bigger the effect is!
No round number. : (
When you were a medical student, have you ever suspended cards after each block exam or did you keep doing them on top of learning new material? I wonder if it's worth the time investment because learning new material takes up a lot of time especially when second year hits? Thank you!
I kept doing them! The intervals get progressively longer and longer so it doesn't become very much to maintain at all :)
@@ConanLiuMD Got it, I'll give it a try, better late than never. Thank you for your advice!
Hello! I’m a fourth year starting IM residency this summer. Which decks did you use for your ITE exams?
I used my own cards! I can't recommend going through the process of making your own cards enough, though it's personal preference for sure. I never enjoyed the premade decks much
I’m trying to use Anki but I’m really struggling to get into it or use it properly.
Start slowly. Make a flashcard for each day you don't have a review flashcard so you answer everyday one card. You can start even slower making a card per week
Do you have any premade decks for step 1 or 2?
Can you share your anti deck?
Great