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With only mild amounts of shameless self-promotion 😉

Some of you may know that I used Anki for literally ALL of my vet school studying, including the NAVLE. So I wanted to spread the good word about this amazing, free-to-download flashcard program. Lots of med students use it, in fact they even have a whole SDN forum for it! Only downside about being a vet student is there aren't a lot of premade decks available, so we're stuck making our own. Thus, my how-to guide!

This is just a quick guide I put together to help my classmates get started on Anki, that I have gone through and updated for 2021.
Check it out: Anki How-To Guide – Pathology and Ponies

If you guys have any questions about using Anki, how to get started, clarification on something in the guide etc, feel free to ask!

Happy flashcarding!
 
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I do have to say, I didn’t utilize Anki anywhere near to its full potential and skimming this taught me stuff, but image occlusion mode was a large part of my phase 1 pathology boards study. I started with hiding one label at a time as I began studying and worked up to being able to name them without any of the others uncovered. I was not a flash card person at all but it definitely helped me!
 
As a fellow long-time Anki user (both for school and recreational language learning), this is an excellent starter's guide! I'm especially happy to see that you included a section on image occlusion; I found it incredibly helpful for more visually oriented classes such as radiology and anatomic path and, honestly, that feature alone puts Anki head and shoulders above Quizlet IMO. Let alone tags, cloze deletion, and the true spaced repetition algorithm, among many others.

Would you mind if I throw a link to your guide into my signature to go alongside the other helpful tools/information?
 
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silverrains said:
As a fellow long-time Anki user (both for school and recreational language learning), this is an excellent starter's guide! I'm especially happy to see that you included a section on image occlusion; I found it incredibly helpful for more visually oriented classes such as radiology and anatomic path and, honestly, that feature alone puts Anki head and shoulders above Quizlet IMO. Let alone tags, cloze deletion, and the true spaced repetition algorithm, among many others.

Would you mind if I throw a link to your guide into my signature to go alongside the other helpful tools/information?
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Ooh yes, I should add Cloze deletion to the document!

You bet! Glad you think it is useful 🙂
 
JaynaAli said:
I do have to say, I didn’t utilize Anki anywhere near to its full potential and skimming this taught me stuff, but image occlusion mode was a large part of my phase 1 pathology boards study. I started with hiding one label at a time as I began studying and worked up to being able to name them without any of the others uncovered. I was not a flash card person at all but it definitely helped me!
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It's such a good tool! Though this reminds me I need to actually start studying for Phase I... lol
 
awesomenessity said:
Ooh yes, I should add Cloze deletion to the document!

You bet! Glad you think it is useful 🙂
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No worries! I support any efforts to spread the Anki goodness among the pre-vet/vet student community. It's extremely popular in language learning circles but given its additional reach among human med students, I'm still a little surprised that it never seemed to catch on with the vet med side. It's a shame, too, because it's an exceedingly powerful piece of software once you know what you're doing, especially if you have some coding knowledge (the card editor supports HTML and CSS input, for one, so you can build lists and tables and do all manner of fun stuff with it).
 
silverrains said:
No worries! I support any efforts to spread the Anki goodness among the pre-vet/vet student community. It's extremely popular in language learning circles but given its additional reach among human med students, I'm still a little surprised that it never seemed to catch on with the vet med side. It's a shame, too, because it's an exceedingly powerful piece of software once you know what you're doing, especially if you have some coding knowledge (the card editor supports HTML and CSS input, for one, so you can build lists and tables and do all manner of fun stuff with it).
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Yes! I do web design on the side so I like making my cards ✨aesthetic✨ 😂
 
awesomenessity said:
With only mild amounts of shameless self-promotion 😉

Some of you may know that I used Anki for literally ALL of my vet school studying, including the NAVLE. So I wanted to spread the good word about this amazing, free-to-download flashcard program. Lots of med students use it, in fact they even have a whole SDN forum for it! Only downside about being a vet student is there aren't a lot of premade decks available, so we're stuck making our own. Thus, my how-to guide!

This is just a quick guide I put together to help my classmates get started on Anki, that I have gone through and updated for 2021.
Check it out: Anki How-To Guide – Pathology and Ponies

If you guys have any questions about using Anki, how to get started, clarification on something in the guide etc, feel free to ask!

Happy flashcarding!
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Hey! I tried to import your Male reproduction anki cards but I keep getting the same error message. I'm not sure if I should contact Anki directly to try to get this resolved.
 
WonderingStudent said:
Hey! I tried to import your Male reproduction anki cards but I keep getting the same error message. I'm not sure if I should contact Anki directly to try to get this resolved.
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For a second, I was wondering if this was an elaborate joke about male genitalia... and then it wasn't and I was ashamed...
 
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