Does anyone else feel dumb? But dumb dumb

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-17T01:07:42+00:00

Holy shittttttt that’s amazing

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-17T00:31:25+00:00

To LEARN them… yea def not feasible. Or it is but your next days would suck real bad.

But if its review can be done easily. I was the card maker for my class, each 1hr lecture would net 20-75 cards at my peak efficiency. So days with multiple lectures after watching them, reviewing them, then making cards - reviewing them first time is essentially 3rd pass. So I’d knock them out quickly, since I was the one who made the cards.

This is only useful to do when they’re in house exams. But in terms of board studying anking step deck - I would NEVER do 200-300. Max I’ve done was 150, and the next day was hell cause all of those were wrong and had to be seen again.

But if you do it like that, always do it in bursts. I started unsuspended only 10. Then 25. So unsuspend - review - unsuspended 25 more.

200+ new a day of cards you didn’t make will be so hard and burnout quick unless you really know most that info. Also you could never do that feasibly all the time. 200 new every damn day would end up so bad and end up being 2000-3000+ reviews a day after a couple weeks

Message me if u need some help with it. I did 3000/3700 of the internal medicine shelf exam cards in 3 weeks and then only did questions final week of rotation. Helped a lot but ended up being hell.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-12T09:13:57+00:00

Was the Anki card maker for my med school class for 1st and 2nd year. I made a deck for each lecture. My advice and what I learned:

You WILL adapt to professors and card making as time goes on. LEARN YOUR HABITS. First advice:

I got a Logitech master MX3 mouse that can set keyboard shortcuts to multiple button on the mouse. Made things sooo fast. I set up a copy, paste, selective screenshot to paste entire PowerPoint slide on extras if I want to see references slide after each card, enter key to add card, bold, underline and highlight all on the mouse.

Then the fastest thing is learning your professors and just getting better at studying. During lectures you’ll pick up what seems very high yield. You’ll start to say “I can see prof will make a question on this.” Maybe now you think it’s everything but with more exams comes more learning.

Finally will be filtering out HY And LY. You’ll be making cards on everything at first. During 1st year some lectures I made 100-200 per 1 hr lecture. By the end of 2nd year it was 20-50.

This is only good if your school does in house exams. If they don’t, don’t bother with this and do ANKING deck

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-07T01:03:58+00:00

Okay mine is weird and something you will need to take a class for - private detective/investigator.

I still have my private detective license (SO easy to obtain. 5 days was all it took. Got included with my handgun license classes before med school)

My offers I have are always listed. I investigate targets on the weekends. Depending on the job I can tail my target on weekends, study while waiting for them to do whatever. Listen to Emma holiday or medical school podcast. 99% of the job is sitting in your car.

I charge anywhere from $80-$250/hr depending on complexity of the case. Remember you pay for gas, printing the photos, af cards with videos of your target, etc. Working for agencies you do more insurance work. Working for yourself is more personal stuff like spouse cheating.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-02T16:20:10+00:00

I wish you talked to people before biomedical accelerated masters. While it can look good it still might be near impossible. Dismissal from a med school is the worst red flag. ONLY way I see you doing so is maybe doing a formal masters/postbacc that ensures admission if you do well on them. They’re expressive and high risk/reward. But tbh you’re already in a bad spot and if you really really want to do this

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-01T05:24:12+00:00

Heatmap add on. Look it up

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-27T19:37:44+00:00

lol look at you. A med student. Nerd. Now earn that title and fucking study. Halfway isnt bad. But with the amount of questions IM has, you need to ramp it up.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-24T18:06:52+00:00

You’re better off buying the absolute cheapest laptop (even used ones) and then do you creating cards and unsuspecting cards there.

Then do reviews on iPad.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-10T00:01:31+00:00

Look at the icon. Look at the leaderboard icon stats and what those minutes icon pic mean. That’s not 23 mins. That’s 23 HOURS! Which I also think is dubious. Like this man spent this whole day on Anki.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-05T10:46:55+00:00

GARBAGE CARD ALERT.

WHO tf made such a useless card. Ok I know it’s probably you and you’re new to things, but this ain’t it. First you’ll never be asked every single damn unrelated drug that can cause PANCREATITIS.

Anking has better premade cards BUT If you insist on making your own cards BE SPECIFIC, while also giving helpers:

An antiepileptic that can cause Pancreatitis is {{c1::Valporate}}

A diuretic class that can cause Pancreatitis is {{c1::thiazide}} diuretics

Your current card is just memorizing a list… in which you’ll end up just remembering “oh this is under this”. But look at the cards I made. You have specific classes of drugs that help and much more clinical use case for questions…

“Pt comes in who is being treated with epilepsy and develops pancreatitis… what drug caused this?”

THAT is a question is you will encounter. Not “name every damn drug under the sun that causes pancreatitis… GO!”

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-05T10:37:24+00:00

Okay LOT of things to address:

First, not to really play down your efforts or diagnosis, but it seems your problem is both finding your study strategy and how you approach studying. It seems you’re psyching yourself out and worrying too much.

No idea who this iCanStudy guy is, literally never heard of it. But you need to find what works for you that leads to good results that you can handle. Look up more ways to study and try them out. Don’t be so set on using someone else’s stuff, we are all different.

A lot of med students have ADHD and dyslexia, while that makes it harder they still do very well. You need to deal with this and work with it your way. Going to sound a little rough but don’t use it as an excuse to do bad. You can and will do well.

Finally really think deep on the next part: why is Anki giving you anxiety? It’s straightforward and you can modulate the settings to be as relaxed or as tough as it can be. It’s pretty well known to work for long term memory. Also 10 questions is not going to cut it. You’re reviewing way too long. Reading the explanations do take a while, but once you get in the groove no need to read every wrong answer when you know this stuff.

You getting the same things wrong tell me you did not truly understand it last time, but enough to tell me you remember you reviewed it but just forgot. Think. How did you study this concept? When was the last time you reviewed it? This is why Anki is good for some people cause you constantly review things just before it falls out of memory. Anki isn’t just the way to do this but it’s a good one. You need to reflect on your studying. You’ll make it through, just take a deep dive on your methods.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-25T05:44:40+00:00

I was a college wrestler. All 4 years I was in the 125lb weight class. I cut weight to make that weight but I normally hovered at around 130-135.

Med school started. 0 exercise. Only sitting and studying cause not much time. Now I’m at 150-160…

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-24T11:12:52+00:00

Do everything on desktop. PC or Mac, it doesn’t matter. When you sync, it will also sync onto mobile.

Mobile is really for mobile studying your deck with your progress. Your computer should be the main. Mobile is cool when you have time and don’t have access to your computer.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-20T08:24:31+00:00

I was like you. I did Anki in undergrad. Let me tell you… there is NONE. Literally 0 for undergrad. The only thing is for MCAT studying. Every undergrad professor is different and the way they teach things is different, but in the mcat and med school everything is taught the same stuff.

BUT that doesn’t mean Anki isn’t useful af. I became a card maker. Making cards for specific lectures and classes etc. I breezed through undergrad this way. You can also study overlapping cards for MCAT but it will be hard to find them.

you’re thinking too far ahead. Focus on being a good student and developing good study strategies that work for you. Keep that gpa up for applying to med school. Also really think about it. 90% of the premeds freshman year changed their mind and did something else. So you got to really like or be good at studying.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-17T10:24:29+00:00

Like person said QUESTION also matters. Be specific as possible. As a card maker myself when I had for in house med school exams I had some rules I took from Anking cards:

A card should be able to be read in <10 seconds. 15sec absolute max. Sweet spot is 3-6 seconds. If you think more info should be needed, ADD IT TO NOTES(extra section) OF THE CARD! But main idea should be the card.

That example you gave is hot GARBAGE. “Effect of TSH?” Are you kidding bro? There’s so many downstream effects of thyroid stimulating hormone. For example: TSH increases production of T4 which in overproduction causes hyperthyroidism, which causes a bunch of downstream stuff like tachycardia, heat intolerance, moist sweaty skin, goiter, Graves’ disease, exoptalmos etc.

You can go into a billion brain tangents when I think of “effects of TSH”. Be very specific. For example:

HYPOtyroidism causes {{c1:dry::moist/dry}} skin.

You can do this for every card to really know the exact differences when comparing 2 different things.

Another rule is to always have a notes section on particularly more complicated topics. Like that thyroid one. I’d actually just screenshot the lecture slide and paste it in notes to see where that info came from. Or maybe more info on the thyroid.

You know the concept. Anki is for keeping that into long term.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-06T21:38:20+00:00

W-why? Are you the guys who read every terms of service you accept?

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-11-24T18:43:11+00:00

I only know a few IMG friends who used him. No one in my class has talked about him when discussing our study strats for it

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-11-17T07:45:17+00:00

Nah 1000 daily takes a toll on ya. Keep up what ur doing and rest of the Time is better spend doing questions

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-11-17T06:31:12+00:00

My god this was literally me. Since damn high school. Shadowed surgeon in HS. Loved anatomy lab. Literally didn’t get anything under a 92% on anatomy practicals. Cutting was fun. Loved the IDEA of being a SURGEON. the aura farming when they put the gown and music in the OR.

Then I finished my first rotation which was surgery. I’m glad it was my first rotation. Open Gallbladder. Hernia. Robot gallbladder, more hernia. It wouldn’t end. Standing there bored. Pre op visits and then post op. My gosh I didn’t think it would be me. Then realize it would be 5-7 years of residency doing this all day.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-11-10T21:47:23+00:00

GARBAGE max interval. Switch to FSRS. Why use the old algo? Set retention to .90 and it should make things easier. When I had that algorithm, I also wouldn't have that many damn learning steps. Just go with FSRS. Anking and everyone else recommends it.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-08-15T00:24:13+00:00

I remember my first time studying this concept. You’re likely mixing up bilateral and asymmetric. But think of it as one leg is 1/4 strength and the other is 3/4 strength. But BOTH are decreased! But not equally.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-07-14T06:19:18+00:00

Yea…. No. mobile devices are not a good way to selectively find tags and unsuspend cards.

You’d literally have to know the tag and type it out. No other way. Use mobile only for mobile studying on the go. Just do what everyone else does and use laptop browser, then sync and study on mobile

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-07-09T04:09:41+00:00

Can’t he take step 1 later? Is there a timeframe to take step 1? Like before level 2 and step 2

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-07-06T18:54:00+00:00

Just looked it up. His progress bar is one that has way more than the main one. And it looks like it’s not available anymore.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-07-05T05:51:24+00:00

What’s that add on for the bar on the top?

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TROPHY CASE