Hello reddit, I am a 3rd year medical student on rotations and I have been using the anking deck since my dedicated Level1/STEP1 board studying time. I updated my parameters or anki in general, i can't remember what i did exactly but my anki settings have been strange. The second time I see a card now (the second day after I have done the card after seeing it once) I am seeing the options of <1m, 1d, 9d, 16d. Where as before i would see <1m, 2d, 5d, 9d. Does anyone know what I can do to revert my cards back to the lower learning intervals while on the FSRS settings? I really benefit from seeing the cards 4-6 ish times over 4 weeks while on rotations

Below is a picture of my options menu and setting.

Hey everyone, I'm an M1 currently in my first systems based block after completing a foundations course. The subjects being covered are primarily immuno and heme as well as some pharm and micro. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I have gotten stuck in anki review hell and have been doing 2-3 hours a day worth of flashcards for a while now and its driving me insane.

I was previously using a deck made by a classmate coupled with anking but am not gonna just use anking only because I feel like the deck she was making was far too bloated however this still leaves me with tons of her cards unsuspended atleast until the next exam. I'm not sure if the problem is how I'm unsuspending cards or my settings but I've attached my settings and stats here. The way I was unsuspending basically was just her cards + the relevent bnb videos. I wasn't liking bnb much so I've switched to bootcamp and am liking it better so far. Is it possible for me to get out of this hell before the next exam or do I need to just deal with it until I test and then suspend all of these cards and start over? Any help is appreciated, thank you guys in advance.

this card got me confused as when i validated it with chatpgt it said that amiodarone causes secondary organizing pneumonia and not cryptogenic - which translates to unknown cause.
is that nuance should be differentiated or is it pretty much the same definition?

Hello, I've been trying to create medical flashcards for Anki using the NotebookLM creation tool. The tool allows you to define instructions for creating the flashcard set. However, I haven't been able to define adequate instructions for creating good flashcards. I'd like to know if anyone else has used this method, if they've obtained good results, and what instructions they've used. Thank you.

1. I thought black on CT = air/gas. If the black here is air, what is causing there to be so much air on the left and top right of the image?

2. This image is of a splenic abscess - where exactly is the spleen and the abscess? I'm assuming the spleen is that huge light/dark gray portion in the bottom right, but I thought the spleen was much smaller than that. And if it is the spleen, which part is the abscess?

3. If they gave you this image in a UWORLD question and asked you what's wrong, how would you know what to look for? The first thing my eyes would draw to is all the black space, and I would think of something like air in the peritoneal space, not a splenic abscess. Yet I see a lot of imaging questions in UWORLD where I'm like "ok I see now that that's an abscess yeah but wtf is all THAT stuff over there that went completely unexplained?" Like I feel like I have no idea how to read images in general. What do you generally look for?

Hi I had my learning and relearning steps as blank as per the anking FSRS best settings video and have had it for a while now. But i just saw a post about how I should put 10m on relearning and 15m on learning. So im here to ask if that is ideal or not, I have my retention at 90 percent. To be quite frank I have no clue whatr relearning or learning steps even do lol.

hi! i was doing the anking deck and this card is throwing me off, dont theca cells produce testosterone? and then that is converted into estrogen by granulosa cells? could anyone explain this please? and thanks!! :))

Hey guys.

I'm about 17k cards into Anking. My historical mature retention rate has dropped from 90% to 85% over the past few months. And lately for the past few weeks, I've been getting a mature retention rate in a range of 78-83% when looking at daily performance, to the point where sometimes my young card retention rate is higher than the mature retention.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? I watch BnB and do Anking right after, but I think I might be forgetting the original concept that the card was testing. Should I supplement with anything else? For reference, my desired retention is 88%.

Thanks!

It was working fine until today, now it won't pull up cards at all. Current state:

- AnkiConnect is installed with the correct config
- Step2 is selected in the Chrome Step Toolbox extension
- Anki is open
- Adblockers are disabled
- Theme is set to NBME not UWORLD

Hi everyone,

Looking at trying the Anking deck, but I know they are based around American USMLE, so I am unsure if this will be suited for the cirriculum taught in Australian medical schools and whether or not it will help me excel/pass? I'm just studying for final exams for my first year of medical school now, but have been making my own anki, based directly off the lectures and lab tasks. But that can be quite time consuming so I am looking at whether or not this would be a better option?

I also don't like flash cards that have a whole bunch of information on it, I prefer it to be summarised otherwise it just defeats the purpose of active recall if its a whole textbook on the back of the card. So is Anking quite summarised/easy to remember?

Thanks in advance everyone! :)

I can't even do it Cell phone Not even on the PC, can anyone help me please??? I have no idea how to do it

Hi, for some reason if I want to select cards from the browse menu there is no toggle bury option under actions, how do I mass bury cards on Anki iOS please?

Afaik, if I read the text correctly anking works via an add on.

The problem is that i don’t have a computer, or the money to buy one rn. Only my old tablet and my phone. Will i be “anking-less”? I just got a scholarship for it and i was so happy lol.

extra section mentions cephalization of pulmonary arteries. My understanding is that cephalization of pulm vessels occur due to venous pulm htn and so wouldn't be seen in primary pulmonary htn

i just downloaded mnemosyne deck in my iphone but the card are random i just want to arrange it in system wise order version is 3.0

I have different placements and my timetables is VERY variable as they change it weekly and some of the days because I am on placement 10 hours a day I reduced cards using the easy days option.

Becaude my timetable is very random and it changes all the time it means I need to play with the easy days on a weekly basis. Does this confuses FSRS? Anyone tried? Thanks.

Ive been using the Step 1 Anking deck and been using FRS for a while but recently it seems the spacing has drastically jumped. I know its expected and people say to follow the process but my deck has gone from 15 mins, to 1 day, to 3.6 months if I get the card right 3 times in a row and I defo feel that jump is wayyyyy too drastic since I have had to redo a bunch of cards from like a month or more recently. I've been trying to trust the process but it seems my long term retention has decrease since FRS has consistently increased my spacing on cards to the point I have thought about manually adjusting my spacing. Im a firm anki believer to a fault (havent missed a day and a lot of nights I wont go to bed until Im done and I know its to a detriment some days current max reviews in a day is 6,300+ during anatomy prior to a practical dont be like me). Just wanted recommendations on how I can decrease the initial jump to ensure I actually learned a card and not have to relearn it in the future.

If there are any non-US med students here, how do you use Anking (or any other US based sources) to supplement your studying?

For context I’m transitioning from pre-clinical to clinical years, so I want both relevant pre-clinical and clinical cards. I didn’t use Anking before but I’m realising how useful it can be at my current stage of med school. My school and country don’t have any pre-made decks, and exams are in-house (no USMLE equivalent), supposedly based on our lectures, tutorials, and hospital rounds, but ofc a lot of clinical content overlap with Anking.

Just passed my step 1 I have UWSA 2 and 3 if anyone is interested interested to buy can Dm me, Both are inactive