How do you use Zanki (or other pre-med decks) alongside your classes?

[Girlygirl2020]

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I'm trying to use Zanki alongside of my classes, but Zanki is chopped up into big subjects and it's not that helpful. I saw that you can filter it by tags but there are SO many tags on zanki, I feel like I'd be spending forever looking for the correct card?

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

How is your curriculum designed?

 

[Girlygirl2020]

How is your curriculum designed?

By systems..so like blood/immune, digestive, CPR, e.t.c

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

By systems..so like blood/immune, digestive, CPR, e.t.c

Then do the cards that correlate to that system. All of them.

 

[Ho0v-man]

Do all the cards for that section that you’re in. It doesn’t matter if it’s in your curriculum or not. It’s in FA so just memorize it now.

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Then do the cards that correlate to that system. All of them.

Piggybacking off this question:

Do you guys search through the cards for that section to find the cards that apply to what you laerned that day or do you just start memorizing all the cards from the section right away, regardless of if your professors have discussed it in class?

 

[iforget2]

Piggybacking off this question:

Do you guys search through the cards for that section to find the cards that apply to what you laerned that day or do you just start memorizing all the cards from the section right away, regardless of if your professors have discussed it in class?

I do option #1. It does take time to look through the cards that match what you've been taught in class, but it makes going through zanki much easier while helping you study for class. Then at the end of the block, let's say biochem, whatever cards are leftover that weren't covered in class I move them to my main deck and start doing them. I remember the biochem deck being ~1800 or so including the vitamin deck and there were only about 400 cards that weren't covered in class that I needed to do on my own. You can either brute force these or if you have the time watch BnB/youtube videos to help strengthen the understanding of these cards.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Do you guys search through the cards for that section to find the cards that apply to what you laerned that day

Nope, I just do all of them.

 

[Save a life]

I do option #1. It does take time to look through the cards that match what you've been taught in class, but it makes going through zanki much easier while helping you study for class. Then at the end of the block, let's say biochem, whatever cards are leftover that weren't covered in class I move them to my main deck and start doing them. I remember the biochem deck being ~1800 or so including the vitamin deck and there were only about 400 cards that weren't covered in class that I needed to do on my own. You can either brute force these or if you have the time watch BnB/youtube videos to help strengthen the understanding of these cards.

This is how I do it. They’re a lot easier to go through this way but it does take time.

 

[7331poas]

Do lightyear instead of zanki.

Watch the boards and beyond video for your topic. Then move the cards to your deck that correspond to that video. Every card is tagged to a video.

Rinse and repeat.

 

[whatisthisstuff]

I type in keywords based on lectures in the "Browse" section and then change them to a current deck. Sure it is more time consuming but not nearly as time consuming as making your own (and you'll get good at it with practice). It helps correlate the information a little more rather than brute memorization which is not nearly as useful. Also you can widdle down ALOT of the duplicate cards in these premade decks. Bro's deck for example would have like 8 cards on the mechanism of ACE inhibitors, when I could cut that down to 2 (ex: What is the mechanism of ACEI? What drugs inhibit the conversion of ATI to ATII?). Additionally, some of the drug name ones are unnecessary imo as long as you know the suffix. I think my final Step 1 deck had 10k cards in it where I think Zanki is 25k+...which is just insane.

 

[7331poas]

Sure it is more time consuming but not nearly as time consuming as making your own (and you'll get good at it with practice).

Those arent the only options (doing zanki or making your own)

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Do lightyear instead of zanki.

Watch the boards and beyond video for your topic. Then move the cards to your deck that correspond to that video. Every card is tagged to a video.

Rinse and repeat.

I prefer Zanki because it has UW and Sketchy in it but I agree that if someone is looking to filter topics then they should do lightyear. It’s much easier to sort because of how good the tags are.

 

[whatisthisstuff]

Those arent the only options (doing zanki or making your own)

Really just referring to some type of premade deck. I used Brosencephalon personally. Don't know how Zanki is broken up. If lightyear (not even sure what that is) is the same idea but easier to search through then sure that sounds great. My overall point is that I would find a way to correlate the flash cards you are doing with what you are learning in some type of lecture or book, whether that is your school lecture/online videos/whatever.

 

[7331poas]

Really just referring to some type of premade deck. I used Brosencephalon personally. Don't know how Zanki is broken up. If lightyear (not even sure what that is) is the same idea but easier to search through then sure that sounds great. My overall point is that I would find a way to correlate the flash cards you are doing with what you are learning in some type of lecture or book, whether that is your school lecture/online videos/whatever.

With light-year you don't have to search at all. Every sub topic is tagged. "Skeletal muscle" "cardiac muscle" etc.

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

This is how I do it. They’re a lot easier to go through this way but it does take time.

Same. I consider the time it takes to go through the lecture PPT and unsuspend relevant cards a mild “first run through”. Even if I don’t necessarily see in yet on Anki I’ve still physically seen it, which has helped me so far.