This.
Sharing an account would make it useless since you lose the benefit of spaced repetition tailored to your knowledge base.
Ah, okay. I didn't realize that that's how it worked. Thanks.
You could give the $500 to charity and use your school library (and, the free resource, ANKI!!) instead?
Because I'm about to be broke?!?! I'm trying to balance resources that will be useful to me with the fact that I will have very little money and what I will have is borrowed with interest.
BRS gross anatomy and UMich questions were a great resource for me. Amazon can get you an unmarked, used BRS for cheap--especially the prior edition.
I never touched a flashcard prior to medical school. I used Anki for anatomy action/origin/insertion/innervation/blood supply and other pure facts. Worked like a charm. Making the cards and doing them the first few days was 90% of my conscious anatomy study.
Contradicting yourself by telling someone not to use flashcards if they previously didn't, eh?
As opposed to, say, careless facts? Or was it discrete?
Compelling, and rich. I couldn't have said it any better.
Agreed...As we like to say, "No sense in breakin' that which don't need fixin'..."
You are quite definitive in your advice.
I agree, but it helped me prepare for questions beyond the anatomy lab tags (which were pure ID). We were frequently given a clinical presentation and asked the likely structure responsible for the deficit. Staring at a cadaver wouldn't have gotten me to the same understanding.
Please, enlighten us. You sound like a rock star. And let me guess, you also were able to tell what the iliohypogastric nerve did by staring?
"Low yield"... typical defense when someone can't admit they don't know something. Sounds like your Moore's buddy wasted a load of time on that book. I hope you didn't make the same mistakes he did...
Coulda done Bros deck for free.
Tried it, didn't like it.
Firecracker is more of the same.
I found that sort of stuff was best acquired by annotating FA with everything from UW and Kaplan, then turning it into my own deck. FC just has too much material for me to find personally useful when compared to making my own cards.
I'm saying it as someone who bought two years of FC and found it less useful than Bro's, for the record. FC just wasn't as efficient, and costs a decent sum. I ended up using a free resource 10x more than the one I paid a lot of money for.
I can respect that.
Get on our level
Get on our level
In all seriousness though, I think the fact is that just that Anki works for more people. Perhaps this is because not enough people try FC due to the price. If both were equally effective/efficient on average for different learning types, we'd expect just as many FC elitists. But we don't, Anki elitists run SDN and you wonder why... IMO both work but Anki is more efficient and has a better spaced repetition algorithm. That and the fact that making your own cards adds immensely to the learning.
