MS1-MS2 doesn't teach you bread and butter medicine in enough detail

[mehc012]

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I'm comparing learning concepts, as in what expert clinicians want us to get out of small group sessions with them, against sitting at home in your PJs memorizing tens of thousands of flashcards. And I'm saying that in the current climate, it's only exam-crushing outliers who can get scores that leave all doors open without the latter.

I just don't happen to agree. I think that Anki is the time-intensive, but low level of thought/confidence path. I would bet that most people who succeed with Anki would also succeed if they learned conceptually, but it's harder to show them how to do that, and it requires a certain level of confidence to say "I understand cardio, I don't need to memorize factoids about it to get most of the possible questions right."

Aka, Anki is, while not exactly the easy path, it's the safe path, which is why it's so popular.

 

[fldoctorgirl]

Aka, Anki is, while not exactly the easy path, it's the safe path, which is why it's so popular.

I agree with this. I'm not shooting for a super competitive score, so I figured that doing Zanki is the safe way to nearly guarantee myself getting a score close to what I want. That was literally my rationale for doing it, it just seemed easier (in the sense that it was more clear cut) than figuring out another study method that would have a similar guarantee.