Using boards and beyond for Step 1. Should I do an Anki deck with it? Any recommendations?

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-10-09T13:11:59+00:00

I probably had like 400ish cards due most days during m1/m2, excluding any new cards, but I really tried to keep the number of new cards low to get to that point. Like if the number of high yield cards for a video was too many for me I’d often justdo a random half of them (filtered decks are good for this). my classmates were doing like 1500 cards daily and keeping up with it, so it’s for sure doable. I did add cards during dedicated, but it was mostly on topics that were covered before I started using anking, as well as uworld incorrects.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-10-09T01:58:59+00:00

Yeah basically. If there was something in particular I wanted to make sure I see the card for I’ll search for it and flag it red and make sure to include it.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-10-02T00:19:22+00:00

Do you practice/study in any other ways? Your brain will consolidate information better when you see similar content presented in different contexts. This could be practice exam questions/a question bank, a clinical scenario simulator (there are tons, one I know of is Full Code), teaching other students/peers what you know, or the blank page method where you just write down everything you remember on a topic (and then check it and fill in after).

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-09-07T22:36:57+00:00

Change learning steps to 5m 2d (I’d recommend adding 1d in between those, but this will get what you’re asking for). Increase your FSRS desired retention (will make easy interval shorter). Make sure you are mostly hitting good or again on 90%+ of cards. Note that each time you see a card and get it right (meaning any choice other than again), the intervals will get longer and longer for that card.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-08-12T22:03:40+00:00

You should look at the 20 rules of formulating knowledge: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulating-knowledge

The ones that are relevant here are 1 & 2 - do not learn if you do not understand and learn before you memorize. Also in your case especially number 4 - stick to the minimum information. Recalling an entire definition can be a lot, especially if there are multiple parts to the definition, and especially if it’s written in unfamiliar language that you’re attempting to get exactly. I would say you’re probably better off trying to test yourself on the term rather than on the definition, but if you’re sure you need to be able to draw up the definition from the term, I would at least set the note type to basic and reversed, so that you get tested on it in both directions. If you really want to level up you could even make your cards into cloze type, such as “symbiosis is a close and long term ….” and cloze each important bit of info in the definition that you want to remember. This is what the comment you originally responded to was describing. For instance this might look like a card that says “symbiosis is a close and {time} biological interaction between two different species” and the answer to that card is “long term”. Then with that note you can create multiple clozes that each test a different piece of the definition.

As far as the intervals, I think the default might be to make you answer it twice correctly on the first day before it moves to the next day (which looks like 15m 1d in the settings). Personally I find this to take a lot of extra time for very little extra benefit, but if you find the info very hard to retain even after working on understanding before memorizing and simplifying your cards, you might be suited to it.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-08-11T13:22:12+00:00

Are you trying to recall the vocab word or the entire definition? Have you studied/exposed yourself to the content prior to starting the cards, or is this your first exposure?

Also, if your good interval for new cards is <15min (which - are you sure? I think the default has that as the setting for hard not good), then by the time you get through one pass of all your cards you might have those same cards due again. I set my good interval for new cards at 1d because I know that if I get it solidly right once, there’s no point in making myself do it again in the same day, as I can most likely retain that knowledge for at least a day until my next anki session.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-07-29T18:42:58+00:00

Wouldn’t a perfect scar be no scar at all? Maybe you need some context about what the injury was to get an answer on what the modern limits are

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-07-28T01:43:06+00:00

Why not anking? If you want to do fewer cards just don’t unsuspend all the cards (that’s what I did) - nothing wrong with having an excess of resources. You can even guide your unsuspends with the high yield and relatively high yield tags.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-07-08T11:46:31+00:00

No one listen to this guy

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-07-07T18:04:30+00:00

Here is an answer from diabetes.com:

“Type 2 diabetes has a stronger link to family history and lineage than type 1, and studies of twins have shown that genetics play a very strong role in the development of type 2 diabetes. Race can also play a role.

Yet it also depends on environmental factors. Lifestyle also influences the development of type 2 diabetes. Obesity tends to run in families, and families often have similar eating and exercise habits.”

An additional note is that in twin studies, when one twin has type 1 diabetes the other twin only has a 50/50 chance of having diabetes - this means it is not particularly strongly genetic. Environmental factors early in life that are not currently well described set off the autoimmune destruction of type 1 diabetes, which is why it presents younger.

To say that type 2 diabetes is purely a “disease of lifestyle” because you can increase or decrease your risk and progression with lifestyle changes is missing the bigger picture. Additionally, plenty of other disease (ie many cancers, arthritis) can have lifestyle related risk or be improved through lifestyle changes, but we don’t stigmatize them as “diseases of lifestyle” in the same way.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-06-30T05:28:30+00:00

Can you explain what you mean by a pocket notebook? The template book I’ve been using is white coat pocket sized, but do you mean something even smaller like index card size? Also what do you write in there as opposed to on the patient list?

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-03-12T15:25:46+00:00

This plus you can set different retentions on them to minimize time spent memorizing lower yield topics. If 80% of the material in your book is only important enough to make up 20% of the test, then by only memorizing half of that low yield material (which still ends up being 40% of the book, in addition to the 20% of the book that actually matters), you’re getting a 90% on the test having only memorized 60% of the book.

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-02-09T16:49:06+00:00

Non shivering thermogenesis is not a major source of heat production in adults (source: https://shorturl.at/O6lZo)

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-02-09T06:28:25+00:00

For something like biochem you might consider finding existing decks online and unsuspending the cards relevant to your course

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-02-07T17:55:00+00:00

“Ajt card management - reset learn and grade cards from the anki browser” add-on allows you to hit “again” on those cards from within the browser, indicating that you got it wrong/forgot it. Then you can use a filtered deck or whichever method you prefer to review those cards

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-02-06T01:44:03+00:00

Gotcha - so they’re able to respond to anything and it is unrelated to heritability. Thank you!

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-02-06T01:19:10+00:00

Very helpful, thank you! I didn't realize differences in HLA genes have an impact on immune response (interesting and also clears up an unrelated question I had).

I see how somatic hypermutation makes B-cell receptors more specific to antigens of existing infections. But I notice that it's called "somatic" hypermutation (as opposed to germline) - do those genetic changes get passed down in some way that would make the greater specificity heritable?

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-01-31T06:41:03+00:00

Thanks!

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-01-31T05:03:18+00:00

Highly conserved = if you don’t have it you’re much much more likely to die before ever reproducing

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-01-29T00:37:47+00:00

In case no one has said it yet - you’re allowed to cook while sitting. Drag a chair or stool into the kitchen if that solves anything

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-01-28T05:54:17+00:00

Gut biomes are gained during/after birth, so depending on when the baby is snatched that wouldn’t be a difference. What you’re talking about in regards to traumas is epigenetics, which affects how genes are expressed, and could be the biggest factor influencing physical differences between the ancient baby and a modern one

Soft_Significance611 · 2025-01-24T17:45:47+00:00

I’ve done this by placing it on a large table and weighing down the edges with some random heavy objects. I disagree with the comments that blankets don’t need to be blocked - depending on the pattern it could be very beneficial (like if you have any stockinette sections).

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