why I STOPPED using Flashcards in MEDICAL School
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- I still use flashcards once in a while but I definitely don't rely on them to do well in medical school. Can someone teach me how to use anki?! hahaha
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a good strategy to learn in medical school is: when you read over a lecture slide or you read over a paragraph in a textbook, after you finished the section or the slide, trie to recall whats being told on that slide/ section. You can explain the content in your head or out loud or jot it down on paper. This is a way of active recall as well and forces you to think about what you are studying and to gain a deep understanding of the topic.With that way you can easily learn a bunch of lectures or whole Textbooks :) "Learning doesnt take place when you read or when you trie to memorize facts, it takes place when you actively think about what you are studying"
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Absolutely true. The moment I stopped using flashcards,my grades skyrocketed, and I've become more effective with my studies. As a student what you need to do is stick to the fundamentals of Active Recall(and there are millions of ways you can do active recall, Anki ain't the only way).
I personally prefer notion, as I understand things,I make questions on it then write notes from memory. So active recall already happens when making notes. When going through the questions,you have a holistic understanding of how each piece of the puzzle comes together, rather than random facts or pattern recognition in Anki
as an accomplished student, I've never used anki , i repeat textbooks and master them . repetition from textbooks just hits different
It’s refreshing to hear someone not using only flashcards 24/7 to study. The amount of “anki is best” videos is crazy. Plenty of great docs out there that didn’t use this method. Not knocking it but there are other methods.
Right?
I absolutely despise anki, and I’m looking for a way to implement spaced repitition WITHOUT anki
@@IAMCHIDERAthere are
lot of ways
@@kush3687 hey! I am currently looking for this. Do you have any ideas please?
thisss! in my country, exams are 50% mcqs based, and 50% essay questions based. so i was really unable to wrap my head around the fact that how was cramming and remembering some rigid facts gonna help me in the essay questions, where i have to write some reasons/paragraphs/long answers. overall, i think, maybe i could use it just for those things where i definitely do need to cram the very rigid facts, but i don’t think i can be someone to solely rely on it. currently, i use the method of making my notes, re-writing and arranging stuff in simple words for me to understand, it works well for me, but it’s very time-consuming, so i was looking for some alternative study methods, but i guess anki just ain’t the one for me.
I also do the same thing with making notes. Have you find a quicker way or alternative?
Using flashcards helps me get a basic understanding of what it is but it definitely shouldn’t be the only thing used to study with. Once I get a good understanding of what the basics are, I’ll take that information and dig further and study more information outside the flashcard.
This helps me with not getting overwhelmed with a ton of material coming at me at once.
Rereading slides is not active recall. You are banking on encoding doing the trick
I find if I read something my lectures, I'll forget nearly everything by the end of the day unless I use anki.
It doesn’t work for everyone. Do what works for you.
Try memorising instead of only reading and you'll be surprised with the results, it's definitely more faster than Anki.
Flash cards is just a tool to recall, you can use free recall. Unless some one knows the facts, they can synthesize those concepts with relative and differential concepts and create methaphors which later become heuristics, the zen of knowledge
So much truth here. I got sick watching hundreds of videos of people praising active recall through flashcards. I tried doing this 2 years in a row (I'm a 4th year med student now) and each time I ended up not sticking with the stupid "question / answer flashcard thing", but reading and rereading again and again until I got a deep understanding of each subject and was able to link subjects to one another. My exams are 100% free speech and you can get 3 subjects from which one sounds like "heart failure". You write on the paper as much as you can remember about the subject and logically present it to the professor and ask their questions if they have any. When I ended up with over 100 questions / flashcards for just one subject I instantly new that's not sustainable to repeat and it's not logical to break up a subject in 100+ questions because you don't actually get a general understanding of the subject, let alone the deep understanding and capability to explain it perfectly to anyone, aka feynmam technique. I subscribe to you because you seem to actually use your brain and have a good mentality about being a doctor and not just learning some stupid anki flashcards for your multiple-choice exam.
Haha love your comment!
I hate Anki
Interesting to hear another perspective! I am only in my undergrad but I have found flashcards very helpful. However, I notice that I need to flip through the slides to provide context for my flashcards. It also helps to include more info on the back of a card to give context. It would be nice to not need to spend time making flashcards but I am worried I won't score high if I give them up. Perhaps you remember things more easily or use active recall when you are flipping through them?
In addition to your observations, high marks in medical does not make a good doctor. Or at least, it's not all there is to being a competent physician.
why does all of the science say re-reading is bad then?
Ya definitely not the best but really good for short term memory. Practice questions and spaced repetition is the best.
I was all stressed out because flashcards aren't working for me as well as they work for others
Tysm for sharing really helped me alot💜✨
What if your making the flashcards from the PowerPoints,lectures and the little details and notes?
Flashcards are fine to use, I just wouldn’t solely depend on them.
What was you doing with your study is
1. Watch lectures
2. Take a note, make a few high yield point
3. Rewatch lecture and review notes
Is that ome-anki in general? Every medstud know most professors are bad for teaching us, and most youtube lecture content are god. Understanding big concept first from ome/osmosis or youtube, then remembering small details with anki help is a best thing to be invented for medstudent like us, instead you rewatch your professors lecture like 5-6 times and then regret because what you learned is low-yield one.
You're right. We need to avoid the illusion of competence and the best way to do that is with Anki.
Anki is only superficial rote memorization. You can remember everything by simply reading and thinking about what you read