I just started. Have like 7 topics flagged lol. I hear it's great if you can dedicate your time to it, but that's the problem, especially with surgery, so we'll see if I can stick with it. I'll probably just try to be more dedicated and methodical with it. Maybe flag 4 topics/day and do 100 review or something. There's now way I have time for 250 review plus flagging topics upon topics. What's your first rotation?
Man, that's rough too since there are like 450+ internal topics. I luckily start with peds, though it has almost 200 as well
Don't mark everything at once. Besides, some topics are just too low yield to bother marking. Do yourself a favor and skip embryology entirely. I would also mark anatomy selectively. Physiology is really good, and most of biochem is decent. Additionally, I say you find your own way of doing questions, and don't blindly follow the advice from FC. The algorithm and interface will probably change and screw you over every 6 months anyway, like it has been doing for the past couple of years I've been subscribed. If I were to do it all over I would have saved myself the money and the headache and sticked with anki. Sounds like your medical school did a good job if they covered 95% of FC material, mine sure didn't.
Just to be clear, anatomy is still somewhat high yield for step, it's just that FC is far too detailed in anatomy. Enjoy your summer!
I don't know if it's my particular school, but the material we're currently covering in Pathology is nowhere near as in-depth as these FC cards.
Never stop! lol. Maybe decrease the load in terms of other stuff. I stopped and regretted it because there were a few things on test day I had on the tip of my tongue but just couldn't remember between 2 things. Maybe I would have saw them again, maybe I wouldn't have, who knows. Just make sure you do it everyday without taking breaks. I would not use it religiously throughout spring and winter and I think that hurt me also. A month off can have devastating effects on your spaced repetition skills. Overall it was my number 1 resource and combined with qbanks is very powerful. If you haven't started Rx or Kaplan yet, you should with classes. These will set you up nicely for UWorld. Depending on how many questions you've done, you can start UWorld early. Otherwise it doesn't hurt terribly to wait until later.
This is both true and untrue. While it does cover everything on pathoma, it covers a lot more depth than Pathoma does. Sometimes I think it may be unreasonable and doesn't tell you what is high yield. With Pathoma it might say "symptoms are A B C D and A followed by B are most high yield" but FC will just ask the question and have K C D E A H I B F G J in its list and that sucks.
nope, not that i know of
You can't add images to questions but you can add images in the notes for answers or helpful reminders. Also, the snooze button is supposed to combat the problem you are you were talking about with not seeing it the next day or two days later. You snooze it until you know it, then hit it as a 1 and see if you can remember it in 1-2 days. Otherwise, you're right, it's impossible. Especially with the laundry lists of things.
No, that's unlikely. The questions in FC are not modeled after board questions. Neither is most of FA/pathoma to be honest. See it as a broader coverage of the same material.
I'd just study that topic in full a few times using the cards then do the questions. Maybe even flag the questions but do them the next day outside of your normal set.
I think it's sort of dictated by how complicated the topics you're trying to study are. I found that most of the time I would get by through just reading the cards carefully and doing the questions, occasionally you might need to seek an outside source to clarify and help your understanding.
Don't stop won't stop
