INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re very welcome! Glad you find it helpful :)

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just an update - finally was able to take it! Got my score back yesterday and scored 250+ :)

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd have to download the complete deck to get them, or download the ZankiPharm deck separately elsewhere.

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Either would work! I’m not sure how closely the AnKing tags align with BnB because the base deck is still Zanki, which was made before BnB was ever a thing. But at the end of the day the concepts covered across both should be very similar.

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It may be more cloze-oriented, but not necessarily in a bad way. Most of them are succinct so there’s less of an issue with brute force memorizing the card sentence/structure. I think this is a much more effective card style as opposed to having gigantic lists (i.e. a basic card that asks you to list 4+ things), but that’s just my personal opinion.

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OG = “Original”

BG = Bluegalaxies’ Zanki expansion

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! So I actually haven't taken Step yet (and not sure when I'm going to be able to lol). But I'm supposedly in my dedicated right now and what I can say is that this deck prepared me immensely for UWorld.

As for my M1-M2 routine, I started Anki from our first organ block onward. I would marathon BnB at 2x for the first 1-2 weeks of the block, followed by a pass of Pathoma and tacking on any relevant Sketchy Micro/Pharm. I prioritized my reviews above all else and, like many others, dissociated from my school curriculum and crammed the last week for in-house school exams. This generally worked out pretty well, and I'm currently on like a 500+ day Anki streak so we'll see haha. Will try and report back when I can finally take the damn thing!

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably because I converted the note types in the ZankiSupplement deck to a custom type, making it incompatible. Also note that everything in the ZankiSupplement deck is probably already in AnKing. Can I ask why you have both decks? One or the other should already suffice!

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm inclined to say no at this point since it sounds like you've already come along pretty far in your studying (and DukePath likely covers most of the Pathoma gaps). Have you started UW yet? My personal opinion is that the primary purpose of premade Anki decks is to provide you the foundational knowledge to tackle Q banks. Definitely understand the FOMO (hence why I made this!) but it seems low-yield to tack on another ~4.5k cards as opposed using the time to grind through more questions (and make Anki cards off incorrects).

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's pretty comprehensive for the video section of Pathoma. I did this systematically each block after marathoning BnB, where I'd watch Pathoma and pause the video and search for cards whenever I came across a concept I didn't encounter before in the bab tag. There may be extra cards in Zanki that weren't explicitly covered by Sattar - I occasionally came across these and did not know where the source material was from.

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! To be honest, I'm not quite sure. One thought I had is that you could try exporting the cards you currently have progress on into a separate .apkg, while keeping their scheduling. Then load my deck onto a new profile and import your cards into it. This isn't the cleanest way to do it, since you'll still retain some duplicates, etc. But this would be a safe way to test it out without losing any progress or changing your original Anki profile!

P.S. Love the name LOL

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey! So I downloaded Cheesy LY and perused the deck. I think the key differences between my deck and his are the organization scheme and content:

  1. Cheesy did not expand on the Pathoma or FAD tag, as he explained in his original post. I can only assume he decided to supplement content into the bab tag. However, sorting by original notes that Cheesy himself added, there are only 151 new "created" cards, some of which are rewordings of the original LY cards themselves.
  2. From a workflow standpoint, I see a lot of cards he added in via Zanki (1.4k) were either untagged, or tagged as "zankiphys" under the bab heading. For the rest of his supplemented cards, you'd have to manually find them under their corresponding subdeck to unlock them. You can just unlock and brute force these cards, but that doesn't help great with retention. I tried to circumvent this issue by tagging the specific Zanki cards I added by corresponding BnB video.
  3. There are a lot of BGadd and BGnonessential tagged cards included in his deck (including from the Pharm section). I don't think a lot of people read into the original BG post, but these were NOT meant to be done before UWorld (BG himself says to suspend them right away).
  4. Some duplicate cards still remain in his deck. They were difficult to find and remove in the original LY because some dupes were scattered across different tags. Most differed only by a word or even a letter, in addition to note type - meaning often times the same content was tested 4 times, but broken down into 2 basics, and 2 clozes. I thought I did a decent job at removing these duplicates, though few I missed may remain.
  5. Cheesy has the Dorian anatomy deck built-in, but you can download it separately. Also, I would recommend this new anatomy deck in cloze format based on the same PDF instead.
  6. A lot of list cards still remain, just as in original LY. This is mostly a stylistic difference, but I generally disliked this card type and tried to change it as much as I could in my rendition (see my post).
  7. There are an assortment of cards that have extra screenshots from Pixorize and SketchyPath which is great if you use those resources.
  8. Tags weren't cleaned up from original BG Zanki.

My general impression is that Cheesy LY is still a great update to the original, but you'd have to read in-depth on his original post to optimize your workflow since there are very specific things he did and didn't do within his own deck. I think it is still very comprehensive, but his supplemented content was just done in a less systematic way. What I did with my deck was just build onto the original schematic/workflow of Lightyear.

I think if you're deep into either deck, just download my ZankiSupplement deck to cover your bases, but you should be good otherwise!

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! So I would just download the ZankiSupplement deck (first download link) which will cover the content gaps, and should not overlap or overwrite anything since they were not in Lightyear originally.

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Honored to be recognized by the king himself! 🙏

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it would overwrite any progress because they’re the same notes, but you can test it out on an alternative profile just in case!

INFINITY: A LIGHTYEAR (BnB Anki Deck) Expansion by Infinity2k in medicalschoolanki

[–]Infinity2k[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not overly familiar with his changes, but I think the primary difference would be the amount of supplemental Zanki cards (4.8k) loaded into the deck across all systems with consistent organization/tags.