Ah first year. So...without knowing your specific situation, just a general bit of advice would be to:
memorize...as in...if you see part of the sentence on a multiple choice test, be able to pick out the rest for:
-Pathoma
-first aid
Knowing these...and really knowing, not just reading it and saying "yeah I got that" but actually having it all memorized, is probably 80% of the stuff you need to know honestly. If you know those two back and forth you can most of the time reason the other stuff out.
I used anki to memorize everything...but whatever works for you if just as good...be it anki or firecracker or whatever.