Anki Questions: Medical Vocab and Anatomy before school

[hachamor_persists]

Sorry to crash the med forums from the veterinary forums, but Anki is much more popular here. I'm going to try to keep my questions vague enough to be relevant to med students. I also reached out to SDN about making some kind of study skills forum for questions like this with cross-profession relevance.

I'm in some gap time before going back to school for veterinary medicine (hopefully comparative medicine, so looking forward to working with some of y'all!) and am learning how to use Anki while trying to brush up on anatomy and medical vocab, among other things. I need to know many of these for my current job, but I'm not getting tested on them per se.

• Advice on learning medical root words: Has anyone found it helpful in their medical training to be able to translate roots from English --> Greek or Latin, or just being able to know Greek or Latin --> English?
• Advice on sets: Sometimes you need to know a set of things. Advice on whether to format it as a list or as a question. E.g. "Front: The first three letters of the alphabet: (1) A, (2) B, (3) __, Back: C" versus "Front: A and B are two of the first three letters of the alphabet, what is the missing letter? Back: C." I'm leaning towards the latter format (question), but have been using the former (list) upon occasion. However, I'm looking for thoughts on pros/cons of each from a class and rotations perspective, and whether it matters to stay consistent with which method I use to make cards (between sets).
• Any advice on which ways of testing yourself on anatomy have been useful on your clinical rotations or in anatomy labs? I'm a little concerned I'll just memorize the image. Hopefully, using it at work will reinforce it, but I don't want to completely count on that since I mostly use the same handful of anatomical markers for now. My current plan is a ton of images with deletions of the same anatomical piece, all of these connected in the same note. Maybe something like 3-10 different images (several species, 1-3 base images each), both pointing out a part with a given name and naming it.

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[kopftonmd]

One of my decks when I was starting M1 had medical roots... for the most part pretty useless. Did learning that blepharo=eyelid help a bit? I mean sure, but LOW YIELD. haha.

Most of the common/famous/beloved/whatever anki decks that the med students use utilize primarily cloze deletions, where the card will have the list and one of the things will get blacked out and you have to guess it and the same for the other list components. Imo, those are the most useless cards (do I ever REALLY need to remember all of the specific ranson's criteria? nah.).

As for anatomy, I used anki, as well as utilizing different online quizzes (maybe it's different in vet school, but there are lots of human anatomy options). If you're able to do anatomy lab in person this year, just go in and dig through the bodies - a lot of them. That's the best way to learn it.

Also idk why but I love your pro pic. The donkey really connected with me for some reason...