
If you want to destroy class exams, that means you need to remember most everything. Capture as much detail as is necessary for your goals. Make cards as you're studying your preferred source. No need to be redundant and do double duty. If you use mostly lecture slides, make cards as you go over your slides. If you like to read, make cards for anything important that you read. How do you primarily learn? Lecture slides? Videos? Text books? A mixture? There is no way around it.įor your situation, I'd say forget about the past. In medical school, we're expected to remember lots of fine detail.

Think of it this way - if you want to remember something, make a card. To spend so much time and energy (and a lot of money too) just to quickly forget most of what I was to learn! I remember recoiling when I first heard this. So What Should I Study ? You’re going to forget most of what you learn in first year anyway, so don’t worry too much.” This is what I was told at the beginning of my first year in med school by a lot of people. Studying smarter, not harder is the goal, and in my opinion, Anki is the way to achieve that. You need to commit lots of information to memory. If you have any questions or comments, leave them below and I'll address them as soon as I can. I figure there are other people out there who would benefit from it too, so I'm posting it here. For that reason, I wrote a guide a week ago for the incoming 1st years at Duke. It has helped me so much that I want to share my experience and advice with my fellow med student colleagues. So many of you know that I found an incredible learning tool called Anki last fall. I've continued using it for the entire year, and I'm still using it on the wards. This book is an essential companion to the ideas in this post. + Fix URI escaped chars when trying to load media files.Update : I've c o-written a comprehensive guide to learning in medical school that incorporates Anki with a host of other evidence-backed study hacks. + You can exclude fields from TTS by enclosing them in a special tag in "Code" section of card template. + You can now fix your database through "Check Collection". + You can now choose to let the app sync automatically before closing in "Settings/Sync". is also supported but the layout might not be 100% perfect. As MathJax is for math only, Latex commands for document formatting or layout might not work.

Added an option in "Settings/Misc" to change save note shortcut to "Ctrl + Enter" (default is "Ctrl + s") to avoid problems with certain keyboard language layouts in Windows 10.
