Here's How To Study Less in Medical School (Easy Step-By-Step Method 2024)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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In this video I'm going to show you med school hacks which helped me crush my first year in medical school.
Want to learn how to study in medical school. More important want to learn how to study less in medical school?
It took me a while but I finally found a study strategy which was quick, effective, and required minimal stress. Then I began to study in medical school less than 3.5 hours a day (including lectures!)
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Hi friends! Hope you enjoy this video! If you enjoy this overview on how I study, I suggest you check out my more detailed 9-part video series. It's completely free and you can find it here! bit.ly/medschoolstudyguide
Thanks for sharing this! It was very helpful and I will definitely be incorporating this into my studies!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Right now, I'm going through a study guide so I can take my TEAS test a month from now. Since I've been using Anki in a way to understand terms better like for Anatomy and Physiology, I find it difficult to understand concepts. I'm not used to writing down notes and expanding on it (mostly because of the time it takes to understand every single part is too much + it's tedius). So I'm going to try your technique :) Regardless, I think I'll still have 2 decks: one for concepts (like what you've done) and one for terms. Thanks for the techniques!!
Seems like a great approach! Glad this was helpful! Best of luck on your exam 😁
How do you consistently keep track of what information you forget? I was always told to not put to much information on your card so that the forgotten info can be tested consistently not everything again
Really original use of anki, never thought of that! Will try for the next year 😄
Finding your channel is a blessing! Thanks for the great info.
Awe thanks for the nice comment! Glad the info is helpful!
This is so broken! You're amazing! Thank you for sharing and I wish you the best of luck going forward.
Sure thing! It's been a while since I made this but there's a more detailed version in a mini video series you can find at the website :)
Okay, will do and thanks again!
If you only take 10 seconds to answer the card, how can you repeat the whole thing in such a short time?
so creative thank you I will try it next semester!
So this is pretty much all you did on a day to day basis and you performed well on exams? Everyone makes med school seem like this impossible feat where eve those that study 8 hours a day still don't have enough time to learn it all. How do you reconcile that idea with your own experience? Also, I hear a lot of people recommending you don't waste your time on low yield material. How do you even know what's low and high yield when studying? Oh also, are you one of those geniuses who just doesn't have to study as much as most people
1. Def not a genius. I look up things all the time even to this day.
2. High vs. low yield comes from paying attention to where you see the same info show up in syllabus, lecture, supplemental material (First Aid, Video resource, Anki cards, etc.) and focusing on those repetitive topics first and then the details.
3. You're right - you wont' learn it all. But med school is not about spending 8 hours to learn everything once. Instead it's about trying to get as much repetition and review in those 8 hours so you recall information longer. Thus you have to be okay with imperfection understanding the first time around. Understand that the future reviews are going to help solidify the info.
@@TheMDJourney so, I guess my question is for you, if you do this long term daily, by test day you typically have sufficient understanding to perform well? I'm not really talking about mastering something in a single day. That'd be a major overload lol
So I tried using this method, but either I am not using it correctly or maybe it just isn't for me. It is so hard to keep track in your head every bit of information you should know by the time you have the entire card memorized after multiple repetitions and to review it all in your head at the end takes progressively longer than ten seconds.
Thank you for these techniques. Do you have a video on how to use Anki?
I have a blog post on my website www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=themdjourney.com/how-to-use-anki-in-medical-school/&ved=2ahUKEwj34e2D8qzqAhUES6wKHUblAeMQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1hf_eK8llK9SLXSSwDMGNq
TheMDJourney thank you. Do you have one on one sessions?
I used to but difficult as a resident. Feel free to email me at themdjourney.com@gmail.com and I can help with your questions!
When you do this technique with Anki do you keep pressing "again" or do you eventually press "good" when you feel that you know the content? I am new to Anki and am learning how it works.
Exactly! Good when I feel like I know it somewhat!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for this!
Glad you found it helpful!
You're amazing bro, thank you very very much 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 been using this method and literally it's been black and white on improvement. Very helpful if your school has very specific information that they want you to know from just their slides. I highly recommend this to anybody who wants to save a ton of time while training your brain to pick out the important material from the slides and reinforce those again and again.
and when 10 or 20 seconds do not support the amount of information????
very informative!
Glad it was helpful!
Can you post a link for the PDF Xchange viewer that you use?
bro u memorize at a super human speed
Very helpful video for people who are new to Anki.
3:02 - you say you'll talk later about how to create your Flashcards after class. Did i missed this part? :)
Hi,
Sorry for missing that in the video. It's a similar approach just where you take notes on your slides during class and use those annotated slides are your flashcards.
I made a better free video course on this where I go through each step one by one. Feel free to check it out here.
www.themdjourney.com/free-med-school-study-guide/
This is dope, are there any particular settings that you use for Anki or default?
Default works great since you decide the amount of cards you do
do you pre-read and post read your lectures?
Do you answer these cards by remembering every single thing on each list?
I give myself a timer (10-20 seconds) to see how much I remembered from each list and then move on. I just see the card several times during a study session. Hope that helped!
Hi there, love your videos! How much time do you spend per card?
10-20 second timer so I can quickly learn one fact at a time and see the card multiple times in a session!
@@TheMDJourney thanks for the reply. So if you review after lecture everyday and use only 5 hours, how do you have time for past classes? Is that incorporated in the review?
What app do you use for viewing the pdf lecture slides?
For PC it's called X-change viewer I believe. It's free
Hello. Thank you so much for the information. I was wondering what your actual study schedule was on anki (in terms of steps, reviews, etc). I know you mentioned when you review lectures in terms of a given week but I was wondering if you actually used the anki algorithm to review actoss subjects or were you mainly organizing your cards by subject and tag and performing customized reviews of only certain subjects on certain days? I tried using anki last semester but found it difficult to balance making new cards and keeping up with my anki review schedule (ie. Was getting buried in reviews) Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Hey thanks for your video. I'm a MS1 and I've been trying to find new ways to study more efficiently and save more time.
I thought the way you used Anki was very interesting, since most other YT videos on Anki usage in med school says to put only 1 fact per card and study the materials that way.
I was just wondering, when you use this method to study, how often do you hit the "1 minute" review button compared to the "10 minute" button when you go through your cards? What percentage of the slides do you find yourself having to know before clicking on "10 minute" versus "1 minute"?
With just 1 fact per card, knowing when to hit "1 min" vs "10 min" was more straightforward but I wanted to get your thoughts on when the slides contains many more facts across 2-3 slides per card. Thanks!
Thank you for your vedio, can you pls tell me about Quizlet app I think it does not have space repeatition system in it but it design is good how you are using Quizlet
This is intersteting as everything I have seen so far says to use 1 fact per 1 flashcard otherwise you miss information, been turning lecture slides into flashcards either by screenshotting them and using closed oclusions or copy and pasting into anki and using closed deletions, but seem to spend a very long time making and reviewing flashcards this way especually as now I'm into my second year of a physiotherapy degree and want to be more effifect as I already seem to be spending a lot of hours studying and I know the amount of content I need to learn will increase especially as I'm thinking of applying for medicine after my physio degree. do you find using this method you miss minor details compared to 1 fact per card.
how are you able to review decks on specific days you want if you make decks for each lecture. for example, let us say on monday you had a lecture on transport systems in physiology, as well as an anatomy lecture on the scapula and a histology lecture on the skin. at the end of monday's lecture day, you would have had 3 hours for each lecture and each lecture is composed of 90-page slides. if you make decks for each course then for mondays class, new flashcards on scapula will be added to the anatomy deck, skin flashcards will be added to histology deck and transport system flashcards will be added to physiology deck. how are you able to completely study all the new lecture slides from monday's lecture without being overwhelmed from reviewing the previous lecture review cards from lastweek. do you study only 5 new cards from anatomy, physiology and histology monday lecture and then study the cards allocated by Anki for review on monday.
Hi Hannah, thanks for the comment.
Using your example I'm going to assume you have an hour lecture for physiology, anatomy, and histology each. This would total 3 hours of lecture for that day. If your school varies on how much lecture you have then the process will take longer.
Now on Monday I would make the fc for each of the 3 lectures. From the video you can see it will take me 10-20 mins per lecture (20 minutes for a 90 slide lecture). Then I would review the 20-25 fc I made for each lecture. It usually takes me 45 min per lecture to do all of the fc for it. So to do all 3 lectures that's about 2 hours.
Regarding review I tend to do an hour review of the fc from the day before in the morning. So on Wednesday morning I'll review my dedicated review from Tuesday. I won't hit Mondays material again until Saturday. You can add in a daily total dedicated review which anki sets up for up for you. Here's a sample breakdown.
Day before: skim lectures and make FC
Day of:
- go to/stream lecture and edit fc
- review FC for that day
- dedicate extra 30 mins to do 10-15 fc that anki has scheduled for you to do
- skim lecture for next day and make fcs
Next day:
- review cards from yesterdays lecture which anki wants to show you again. These are likely the fc which you had trouble with.
-repeat.
Hope that helps some.
Let me know if you have more questions
@@TheMDJourney I think the question is how can you review just the cards from that day’s lectures? The deck would be populated with cards from previous lectures.
Thank you so much for this!!
I'm glad it was helpful! :)
Hey I watched this video and your mini series and they helped me so much. A question I have though is that Anki sets up cards to be reviewed 2 or 3 day or evens weeks laters, should I just ignore them and do the weeks review on the weekend and get back to those cards when it’s time to study for the test (10 days before )?
Thanks for the comment and watching the mini series (and listening to my yap for that long haha). Yes ignore Anki's recommendations after day 1 since you'll have your own structure of reviewing. Review the lecture again on the weekend (all the cards). 10 days before a test I still ignore Anki's recommendations and do all the cards again. Now Anki will show me review cards from that final 10 day review and I'll do those cards once more to hit my weak points. So yes do the review Anki recommends near a test, but to make sure those review cards represent my weakest topics, I ignore them until I've done a full review of all the cards in the last 10 days. Hoped that helped!
Please can youn do a video on anki? How to use it
I can start working on it!
@@TheMDJourney Do you do this with cram mode? And then at the end of the 10 day review you just do the recommended reviews?
Do you any tips on how to efficiently and effectively use/fill out your First Aid USMLE Step 1 book?
Thanks for the question Nina. I can make a video/blog post on this separately. I would recommend using the free Brosencephalon deck for Step 1 which basically has every fact in First Aid and Pathoma. You can google the anki deck and do them while you go through the First Aid book. Any flashcard you have problems with refer back to that section in FA. Or you can use First Aid and test yourself with the flashcards. If you start early on this deck you'll do amazing on Step 1!
TheMDJourney that’s very helpful! Thank you!
What are your Anki settings?
Thanks for the question. I usually keep it at 50 new cards, 25-50 review cards, and the rest of the settings are default. Anything specific you wanted to know?
Hey Lakshya!! I love your channel. You remind me a lot of MedSchoolInsiders - you both have effective tips that are explained in an easily digestable way. I do have one question about Anki...does Anki ask you when your exam or quiz is? How does the algorithm work if, for example, you have a quiz coming up in 2 days, but you want Anki to take you through all the cards before then. Do the flash cards that you designate as "easy" not even show up again until a couple days later? Does that make sense?
Good question. Anki doesn't ask you when your exam is. I like to make decks for specific tests - so quiz 1 would have the lectures that would show up on that quiz, etc. You can also change the settings to where "mastered" questions show up in less days to correspond to show up again near your exam. My approach was that if I had little time prior to a quiz (3-5 days), I would do a normal review the first time and then often use the cram all option to see the cards again. It's a bit tricky I know, but often I would start the cram all function, and try to finish all of the cards in 1-2 days. Then I would do the cram all function again for repetition. Hope that helps some!
What pdf viewer are you using?
So thankful that I found your channel. Wish you a very happy New year...😊
Aww that's nice of you to say! :D Hope I can keep on being helpful! :D
Hey! New subscriber here. Thanks for the videos! Question for you... How are you effective at learning information when you use such a general cue that covers multiple detailed slides? Wouldn't it be more effective to make multiple flashcards with more specific cues? Thanks 😀
Thanks for the subscribe. I focus on what costs students time. Most will make endless amounts of flashcards, never get through them, and realize later that half weren't important. Finally, they have no idea how to connect the ideas. I thus like to focus on learning a chunk of interconnected ideas from big points > smaller details. Helps waste the extra time making cards I don't end up using and keeps me focused on the review as soon as possible
@@TheMDJourney Thanks for the quick response! I definitely see how too many cards can be a time waster. Would you say that knowing the big ideas and how they connect are more important than knowing all the details? (knowing every symptom of asthma, for example)
I think so. Because then its easier to remember and understand those smaller details vs. having them out of context
@@TheMDJourney That makes sense. Thanks! Appreciate it 👍
Of course!
Hi, thank you so much for all your info. I have a question though with regards to transferring the pictures to Anki. I downloaded the free version of Pdf Xchange viewer, but it seems not to have the screenshot option. I tried snipping tool of windows, but this one doesn't show the picture clearly and so I cannot read the labels on the picture. What is the solution? Thanks in advance!
Hmm - I need to look into that my current version seems to have the option. I believe Adobe PDF Reader can also do screenshots.
U make flashcards before the lecture?
Initial flashcards yes. Sometimes the content I would have made flashcards doesn't change after watching lecture so I quickly make them before, add annotations, and delete the useless ones later. But you can also create the annotations and then make the screenshots to save some more time
Very helpful. Thank you!! Do you know of a Mac alternative for PDF XChange Viewer?
I found this link when looking. pdf.wondershare.com/pdf-editor-mac/pdf-xchange-for-mac-alternative.html Hopefully there's a free version in there that seems attractive. I'm sure Adobe PDF reader would work just fine. Plus you also have the screenshot tool that comes built in with Macs.
Let me know if you have any questions!
How would you remember all of that after a couple of months though? Surely it would be more effective to have one fact per flashcard.
Although I guess that could just be the subject.
And also, do you do practice questions?
Sorry for the delay! Just got back from a vacation! My answer to your first question is also the answer to your last one - I love doing practice questions!
I find that trying to learn one fact at a time during the initial phase is overwhelming and often ineffective for the long term unless you're committed doing those flashcard reviews for months vs. weeks.
Instead I learn as much as possible during the first phase. Then I use high-yield resources (review books, practice questions, Brosencephalon anki decks) to retain for the long term.
Hope that helps!
thanks for your reply and detailed explanation. do you limit the number of flashcards you make for each lecture slides to just 20, even if the lecture slides are let say 30-100 long? secondly please could you like make a video on how you create subdecks of each lecture for each course on anki. lastly, do you follow the pre-installed review settings on Anki or did you like create your own. thank you.
Yeah as in the video I try to make one flashcard with 2-3 slides in them. Thus a 90 slide lecture will likely have 10-15 filler slides. Thus you can end up with a Max of 25-27.
I can make a video about subdecks for sure. I may just do a mini series on using anki as a whole.
For the fc I make not really. Good question. I use the pre installed review setting to let Anki decide which flashcards I review the following morning. Otherwise I try to do a whole lecture the day I learn it and then review the whole lecture during the weekend and exam week.
Dude your brain will swell if you try this. This has too much low yield information. The way to make cards is to select the high yield information and make small cards that are conceptual and fit into the big picture. Then throw the rest in the bin
Not fit for everyone but if you can look at a card and identify what's high yield than you can highlight that part of the slide, take a screenshot, and quiz yourself while focusing on those high yield bits. It's just quicker than typing multiple cards - some which at the very end aren't actually high yield after all. But again not for everyone
nah i am a visual learner so this techniques perfect for em to remember what the Lectrure slide looks like. also I would recommend you to annotate the slide before actually putting it onto anki
Can you use anki to studyfor theory based exam formats e.g question 1 describe the gross anatomy of the stomach or is anki better suited for multiple choice questions e.g question 2 choose the best option for the above question.
Thanks for the comment! You can use it for abstract and memorization heavy topics. Particularly for anatomy, Anki has a great tool called occlusion tool which allows you to cover up multiple labels on one image and create multiple flashcards from it. For example, you could have a picture of the heart with the anatomical labels. You can use the occlusion tool to cover all the labels once and it'll make a flashcard for each label. That'd be a good way to use it for classes like Anatomy.
Also good timing, because of feedback from my email subscribers, I created a free video course that's more detailed than this video. You can check it out here. www.themdjourney.com/free-video-course/
Step by step study of a medical student with using flashcards... How can I get this?
There's a link in the description of the link which forwards you to a free video course.
TheMDJourney
Thanks
outta try it out!
Do you use this method for all your classes??
Mostly. If it was primarily a memorization course (pharm) then I would use other techniques or resources
is this free?
Yep! Anki is a free tool online.
Do you have any suggestions for classes that are not PowerPoint based? Could you do this with a textbook somehow?
You can if but the screenshot method not so much. You can still use Anki and make the headings of your textbooks the main questions. If you can get a digital version if your textbook then you can still use the screenshot method :)
Please, could I call you
I’m just starting medschool, let tell you … I am scared fucking straight :(
You got this! One day and block at a time! :D