how much did you study each day and how did you use anki?
I'm doing this as well btw
Treated studying like a 9-5. Except for the occasional mandatory lectures, my day would typically consist of waking up between 6:30a and 8a, going to the gym for 1-1.5 hrs, then watching OME videos and doing OME questions (occasionally B&B videos), making/doing quizlet questions (I personally preferred this over anki and rarely used anki), and then taking a lunch/relaxation break from like 12-1/1:30.
If any lecture recordings were posted by the early to mid afternoon, I'd use that time to watch them at 2x. I'd supplement this time with the same activity I did in the morning, and then around 4:30-5p, I'd call it a day and not touch a single study material for the rest of the day. During my study blocks, I'd take 10-15 min breaks every couple of hours to let myself do something mindless like check Instagram.
All in all, I'd say a normal day for me would consist of about 5-6 hrs/day total of studying (4.5-5 if you factor in all the times I'd randomly get distracted for a few mins hehe). About once a week I'd just use either the morning or the afternoon to relax and do nothing to preserve my sanity lol.
I'd usually study for either the morning or the afternoon on one of the weekend days, and save the other weekend day for doing whatever I wanted. If there were ever weekend days where I was doing outta town, I'd usually get rid of the lazy day during the week in order to may up for no weekend studying. This worked reasonably well for me, I typically scored around mid-80s on exams.
Our curriculum is pass/fail, so in hindsight I definitely could've gotten away with doing less. But my main point is that you will find that treating medical school like a 9-5 and structuring it similarly can be very helpful in achieving efficient studying while preserving wellbeing. These are just my thoughts tho, others may disagree. And if they do, I'm not gonna debate them about it. I'm sure their method works fine too lol.
