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I spent thousands of hours making Anki cards during medical school. Save time and boost your score by using pre-made cards!
Why the Step 1 Deck?
Access Anywhere
From the time I began Yousmle.com, students have kept asking, “when can I buy YOUR Anki cards?”
But when I tried to make an Anki deck for the common medical student, I kept coming back to the same problem: how can I have a manageable enough deck that it doesn’t overwhelm students? What are the facts they
Finally, I’ve compiled some of the most high-yield Anki cards I’ve made, and added new explanations to concepts I wish I’d known before I’d begun my Step 1 preparations.
Constant Improvements
Use the leading spaced repetition program, Anki, to study on the bus, waiting in line, or at your computer.
Save Time
The deck is constantly updated. Be sure to purchase here to receive the most up-to-date version!
Why Anki?
It entirely depends on your timeline. If you have > 2 months before your exam, I would recommend doing the entire deck prior to doing the USMLE World® question bank. If you have only a couple weeks, I’d recommend doing QBank questions first, then searching the deck for cards pertaining to the topics you missed, saving you the time of searching for explanations/integrations.
What is the best way to use this deck?
Will these cards save me time?
How many cards are in the deck?
Do I need anything special to use the deck?
At the time of this writing, there were 1200+ cards in the deck. I still tutor a great deal, and with every student, I help them craft expert, customized Anki cards to help them to integrate and apply their knowledge. I use the best of these cards to constantly update the Anki deck, and will release updates in the future.
Just the (free) program Anki®. To access the deck,download the Anki program here, and “Import” the Step 1 deck from within the Anki program.
Absolutely! I have spent thousands upon thousands of hours honing my Anki card-making skills, to create the kinds of integrated and applied cards that helped me score 270 on Step 1. Add to your own Anki deck, or use these as the foundation for your own. Of course, you can make all of your own pathogenesis-to-presentation Anki cards, or you can use some of mine!
At the beginning of my study period, I went through a video review course for about 5 weeks, along with intermittent UWorld random timed sets that I’d annotate inefficiently into First Aid. After this, I took an NBME and got a 228. I knew at that point that I wasn’t reaching my goals and was clueless as to how to boost my score quickly, so I searched online looking for advice when I came across the site. Within 9 days, my next NBME score was a 249. I continued this process for another 5 weeks until all of Uworld was turned into pathophys-to-presentation cards.
– Johns Hopkins University Medical Student, Final Score 265
