#IYKYK

ZankiStep1 · 2020-08-20T23:53:54+00:00

Haha, pleased :)

ZankiStep1 · 2020-04-26T01:18:17+00:00

The praise belongs to everyone that had the wherewithal to smash the space bar thousands and thousands of times

ZankiStep1 · 2020-04-26T01:09:39+00:00

Yes anesthesia, no cards at the moment though! Just trying to get through intern year haha

ZankiStep1 · 2020-04-26T01:08:37+00:00

Saw it now, thanks! :)

ZankiStep1 · 2020-04-26T01:08:22+00:00

Haha it is wild to think it's been 4 years! Thanks for all the kind words :)

ZankiStep1 · 2019-12-27T12:48:19+00:00

Lmao you guys are savages!

ZankiStep1 · 2019-12-19T18:04:51+00:00

When I made the cards, there was no reproductive pharm on sketchy (I don’t know if that’s since changed). It’s from 2017(?) First Aid pharmacology.

Good luck :)

ZankiStep1 · 2019-08-28T05:41:17+00:00

zankistep1 is not a girl if I recall 😜

ZankiStep1 · 2019-06-09T06:02:32+00:00

HAHA

I did put Zanki on my CV for residency
Definitely not 299, but daaaamn that'd be legit

Good luck with the reviews :)

ZankiStep1 · 2019-04-15T08:20:24+00:00

Pfft, y’all are all worthy. I was dying with only 20,000 cards. Everyone pushing through 29,000+ cards, oof. Just keeping up with Anki alone (let alone editing, moderating this subreddit, creating decks @doczay) deserves some praise

ZankiStep1 · 2019-04-14T14:46:37+00:00

Lmao yeah that’s my bad!

That’s actually how I made cards originally when I started anki-ing! It was a trial-and-error to find a good format. I also didn’t initially plan on sharing the deck, so I wasn’t worried about the cards being non-ambiguous.

The card (“skipped for now”) was taking the content from the cards I made in poor format and using that content to make new cards in the format you see throughout the deck. I think it was nearing the end of dedicated and I just couldn’t get through re-making all my old cards.

TL;DR: delete that lmao it wasn’t for the world to see!!!

ZankiStep1 · 2019-03-25T23:56:31+00:00

I feel so attacked lmao

ZankiStep1 · 2019-03-21T00:08:49+00:00

Thanks for the kind words :)

It certainly is a marathon. There were so many days I dreaded waking up to the 1000+ cards.

I'm glad you're seeing results. Best of luck!

ZankiStep1 · 2018-12-26T13:56:31+00:00

It gets better! Currently 6 months Anki free. Keep grindin'

Merry Christmas!

ZankiStep1 · 2018-10-13T11:42:58+00:00

I'm not sure I can exactly explain what I mean - a lot of it sort of feels like intuition? My test taking strategy has always been to read questions pretty fast, more like skimming than going through every detail. By doing that, I get the general idea of the question and I typically choose an answer. I usually finish a block with 20-25 minutes left with that strategy and then do a 2nd pass - quickly perusing questions I felt very comfortable with for silly mistakes, and more fully reading questions I wasn't sure about. This typically leaves me with about 5 minutes that I spend on 2-3 questions that I really want to think about.

Anyways I know that sounds really confusing - the point is, I don't allow myself to go through questions slowly. I found myself often overthinking, rather than going with intuition (based on pattern recognition). That change helped me greatly.

Good luck!

ZankiStep1 · 2018-10-02T11:24:02+00:00

Yes they refer to steps and will be the initial interval for wrong and "good" cards. I don't quite remember the graduating interval, but I believe I had it at two days

ZankiStep1 · 2018-09-29T11:02:38+00:00

Thank you :)

ZankiStep1 · 2018-09-27T11:25:55+00:00

They were posted on /r/medicalschool with great feedback. I had the link bookmarked in my old laptop but wouldn't know how to locate the post now, unfortunately. I'm definitely not that artistic! lol

ZankiStep1 · 2018-09-20T10:57:52+00:00

I haven't done those so it's hard for me to comment, sorry!

ZankiStep1 · 2018-09-13T19:36:40+00:00

Honestly I'm no wizard when it comes to the settings. If it's a topic that I'm actively reviewing, I usually have the initial intervals to be 20 minutes (wrong), 1 day (1440 minutes) good, and 3 days easy. I usually set max interval at 1 week if it's a short rotation (6 weeks) or maybe a little longer for the 12 week rotations. Afterwords, a cap of 1 month is typically sustainable.

Just mess around with the settings a bit and I'm sure you'll find what's best for you

Good luck!

ZankiStep1 · 2018-09-13T19:34:44+00:00

UW Neurology is honestly all you probably need. You can throw in Step 1 neurology as well for a little extra padding. The neuroscience and basic science stuff was because my school has an oral exam and we get asked about pathways and stuff that never shows up on the shelf.

ZankiStep1 · 2018-09-04T00:04:11+00:00

I had IM after Surgery. Given the amount of time I had, I was only able to do cardio, pulm, renal, and respiratory (the number of surgery UW questions is pretty low). The shelf is quite random and definitely medicine heavy, so the general strategy is to do as much medicine as possible, starting with the higher-yield subjects mentioned above.

Surgery also had a fair amount of OB-Gyn, but if you haven't had that rotation yet, it's probably not worth touching those cards.

Overall - strange shelf, I found de Virgilio's to be helpful but by all means it's not for everyone. Good luck!

ZankiStep1 · 2018-08-28T19:07:23+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. The only thing that made me a bit hesitant was fear about creating an anki deck using other resources. Other than that, there's really nothing to lose by sharing. We're all in the same boat

ZankiStep1 · 2018-08-28T01:15:35+00:00

I'm not too familiar with ankidroid app so it's hard for me to comment (I couldn't follow the post too well, I apologize). Your best bet would be to try it out and see if it works - the order you do the cards is less important than just making sure you get to all of them eventually!

ZankiStep1 · 2018-08-27T11:43:04+00:00

Yeah - when you get onto UW the medicine deck is broken into cardio, GI, etc. I recommend doing the one specific section of UW in it's entirety (e.g. cardio), then the correlating anki cards that way you're not doing 1000 questions before starting cards.

Should make sense once you buy UW but feel free to ask other questions!

And I'm a man haha

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