How I Use Anki Flashcards in Medical School

To Save You Some Time:
0:00 - 1- 🌝Intro
0:12 - 2- 🤡A History of Anki and Me
0:36 - 3- 👨🏽‍💻Enter Ali Abdaal
1:04 - 4- 😫Traditional Flashcards
2:10 - 5- 😇Enter Clozes
2:52 - 6- 📸Screenshot-able Shortcuts
3:03 - 7- 👰Taking it to the Next Level
3:29 - 8- 🇺🇸Sorry USMLE and outro

[@aliabdaal]

This video is really good

[@bhaskarsai9099]

Ali in his next "day in the life video" : I woke up in the morning aimlessly scrolling through KZbin and then decided to negotiate myself to wake up and not be an ABSOLUTE WASTEMAN :P

[@vaibhavi.singh.]

No _Good stuff!??!!?!_ Betrayal? Ali you can't do this This is absolutely unacceptable. How could you?

[@lhd7105]

Thank you Ali for insisting Elizabeth give Anki another try. We are standing on the shoulders of Elizabeth and Ali.

[@FayeBate]

Omg I love the animations so much!! (And the content ofc ❤️)

[@ShadowSkyla9296]

What app/program do you use for the animations?

[@JoeGannon]

This is awesome! I've never understood what the phrase 'a video should be as short as it needs to be' meant. NOW I DO. How you packed so much information into this is incredible, I don't know how someone could not watch to the end?

[@MAS99341]

One of those videos which no one really can explain properly as each person has a different method but it’s interesting to see your approach vs other people inc myself who use it after having made all their notes and then converting to flash cards. Deffo gonna try this when I’m next doing immune system and mechanisms. Keep it up

[@brandonten-fah782]

Anki really helped me for my PLAB preparation. Can't tell you how many people I recommended this to since then. I love the addition of the drawings 😁

[@sinemcelcius]

Besides from this video being good, the artistry really is the cherry on top. ❤️

[@lifeofluba]

such a great video, I'm a fan of your channel!

[@momochi4032]

this is seriously so helpful! i've also had a hard time using flashcards before and have reinstalled quizlet multiple times already but i've tried your method today with anki and i'm glad i did! this may be the easiest way of doing flashcards and will help me get into the studying stage faster rather than spending more time in doing the cards themseleves. thank you so much elizabeth!

[@elizabethfilips]

Awh thank you, glad you found it helpful :)

[@PattyLifts]

Great Video, I can see you are so much more comfortable on camera! That said I'll have to implement this as I continue to read new fitness research and up my game as a coach! :)

[@AlexanderAlemayhu]

Cool video! Fun to hear about your journey with Anki. Thanks for sharing!

[@Gaurav-nv1oc]

Great editing and content Liz !!! I can see, you don't shy away from camera. That's excellent being a beginner on YT. Subscribed your channel right away... Hoping to see subscribers reach 💯K soon... And 1M in a short while. I think most of your subscribers would be related to various academic streams... We'd love to see videos on Efficient Reading, Revising & Memorizing techniques. Godspeed !!!

[@bravomedicina6770]

Thanks you for existing ♡

[@CamsCampbell]

Nice one LIz. I'd never heard of Anki so thank you for the introduction! I used home made flashcards all the time when I was learning Russian for learning vocab so I know how powerful a method it can be. I could probably still visualise the flipside if I saw them again today, but I'm pretty sure I didn't keep them. I used to make them out of index cards cut into four and had piles and piles of them held together with rubber bands in my drawers. I used to sit on Castle Sands in St Andrews at sunrise with a pile and go through them all. Don't believe everything you think. Nice message to close with!

[@RainaOnTheCusp]

This video is soooo good!!! I need to start using Anki🥺

[@MarianaOliveira-qp5ql]

Great video!! I’d heard about anki before but after watching your video I want to give it a try :)

[@tatah678]

Great! After this video, I am definitely going to try the app! Thanks for the tips!

[@apkrish4175]

Great video gonna make me rethink flash cards too!

[@ohhiguy]

Loved the art work. Nice video.

[@piyushjoshi4236]

you know what's the best thing about opportunity that it has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.. u always make the most of it Elizabeth

[@piyushjoshi4236]

failure is a trickster, it takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within one's reach. It has a keen sense of irony and cunning.

[@GrowWithWill]

Just started using Anki for brushing up on my Mandarin :)

[@jackrobbie1179]

This video is so good that it has made me subscribe. Thanks Liz!

[@lhd7105]

Jebus you just reminded me that I had forgotten to sub FML

[@kimvallente4504]

This is so helpful!!! Omggg almost gave up on Anki until I saw thissssss

[@elizabethfilips]

Hahah yay love to hear it!! 💙

[@narensingh8311]

Congratulations for 100k Subscribers

[@JamieDaghaim]

Amazing! ✨

[@mercuryION]

Had no idea, this is super helpful!

[@Yahya-Khan]

Awesome video!

[@JjGabrielPianist]

thank you so much ! I am entering medical school next week so this will be helpful for me ;)

[@axsh970]

Ahh I kinda feel the same way, I love the process but I need to work more on the app and actually open it daily. Using flash cards is another smart study technique that I need to master ••^

[@lfcrags9715]

Ohhh my god this is so awesome. I’m trying this.

[@yakineferjani5283]

I HAVE THE SAME STRUGGLES ! I'll try it out !

[@ManishaChoudhary2555]

This is really helpful..thanku so much...lots of love from INDIA❤❤❤❤

[@cass_666]

Not a medical student but totally going to give this a try. Great video and drawing animations!

[@lhd7105]

I am using Anki for better recall of obscure things that if I recall better I can program software with a lot less friction. I might use it for learning a foreign language too.

[@user-tm4zx9vc9r]

Thank you miss

[@sari6522]

Oh Thank u so much 🖤 I gotta try that

[@hayattmohamed7690]

Nice video! How do you animate your drawing from procreate?

[@joshsimmo]

I don’t even do medicine but I still watched the video. Great editing!

[@dheerajkp9441]

thankyou ,will try

[@simsingh366]

So useful

[@marzhalltv5193]

Had noooo idea bout Clozes for Anki - going to help sooo much in streamlining cardmaking. Cartoon Liz has been born!! Can't wait to see what shenanigans she gets into😈 Also timely addition of p53 signaling cascade - need to know that for my next quiz😎

[@not...not...no.643]

LMAO THE WAY U DREW ALI 🤣🤣

[@moemenmohammed9562]

Can u do a video showing the details of using anki and creating flash cards cuz it has been struggle for me to recall all the info specially with step1 exam and prior that I'd like to thank u for ur videos and study tips :)

[@jatin285]

Ok i am going to try anki after so much recommendation

[@alhaeri1]

i will give it a try

[@akeefaziyauddin8342]

That's an amazing help!! I always hated anki!! I saw Ali's videos as well on this yet never liked it!! Thanks for giving the #CLOZE option !! Please make a detailed video on how you make your flashcards!

[@elizabethfilips]

Awh thank youuuu

[@si-gx3gr]

Bravissima 🤓

[@tusharwaghmare5480]

Grt info..thank u mam

[@jassymoore7161]

Hey Elizabeth! I wondered if you could talk more about how you integrate your active recall on Notion and Anki? Why do you do both & do you use each for different content or do you double up? I like both methods but not sure if it's worth my time to do both or just focus on one!

[@springtimespeechtherapy]

I'm wondering the same thing ☺️

[@ray9649]

U are the reason I’ll succeed in med school

[@irenea.cachero882]

❤️Love your content. I started to use anki because Ali, but then I gave up. To much pain and time... I will try again with your method. Thanks!

[@elizabethfilips]

Thank you so much Irene! I did the same thing, Ali made me get into it... but was too much hassle to stick to 😅 hopefully this helps you too 🙏

[@hereinspiration227]

ali's advice was that one.. interesting.( but I already know ahah)

[@truthteller2711]

For me I felt like I just memorized cards in close format without understanding as opposed to basic question format where I had to think things through to answer like a real exam

[@enayetmohammad119]

❤️❤️🌿

[@whatsappstatusshahid7287]

I love you

[@PaddingtonSoul]

Mmm... Cool.

[@samdonelan6495]

Would you reccomend this for a levels?

[@LIGHTISBURNING]

Is the audio robotic at the end or is it my phone

[@sirinesirine6793]

this was beneficial 🥰don't u think she kinda looks like Adele?

[@sumitadhikari8235]

please upload your anki decks

[@tonyherring7382]

I like cloze, but I don't use it for everything. I like to use basic cards when I have to describe basic concepts, such as how blood moves through the heart or the process of Pulmonary circulation.

[@lhd7105]

I get what you are saying, but the more you have to read during your Anki quizzing the more it's going to go over the time expenditure of 5 to 10 minutes of light Anki study. It adds friction. Eats up interest/mental energy. So what I do is if... #1 i haven't chosen a digital note-taking app so everything goes into Anki cards; #2 i don't want all that extra info slowing down my Anki quizes... what I do is put in a separator --------------------------------------- TLDRowl --------------------------------------- for the answer side.. so what's above this divider, I place the brief answer I ought to be recalling.. ..and what's below is more helpful exposition, or add background info to help me understand what I am recalling.. With this divider I know how much of the back of the card is a part of the quizzing process, and what's extra. Should I pick a note-taking app someday (be it Google Doc or EverNote or Notion or what-have-you) then I know to essentially extract whatever comes after this divider from all the anki cards and move them to the note-taking apps. But heeding Elizabeth's video above, at some point I just admit defeat at this whole exercise of writing meaty flash cards. Anki is just helping me recall tech terms and facts, if it took more than a second to create a card--it's just adding a buttload of friction. I can't read at a normal pace any more. Instead of staring at my book, I am staring at the Anki Q&A dialog of death. So that's why we are all here watching Elizabeth's solution. I am just saying, if we are heeding her ideas, mebbe we shouldn't even be doing any of this...

[@varunittigi9288]

I wonder how to use it for diagrams?

[@lex.p4163]

How do you combine flashcards and question in notion??

[@StudyWithM3E46]

Hello! when using Anki, do you keep all your cards unsuspended as you move forward with your next block material or do you suspend the cards after completing the exam on those topics. Thank you

[@bavanimoodley3121]

wait....did you draw the illustrations yourself??????????????

[@krstoevandrus5937]

summary: she tried the cloze format and found good.

[@eduardo6638]

Have you ever used notion2anki and would you recommend it? or is it easier to copy and paste items from your notes into anki?

[@eduardo6638]

@@elizabethfilips True. Thanks so much! Awesome videos, love it!

[@Fabianm1995]

If you have a card with one question and on the other side a very long text (hundreds of words) how can you remember all of that? Isn’t it better to make 10 cards and just have 5-10 sentences at the back of the card?

[@krizable1]

Do you make flashcards for everything in your lecture or do you only make flashcards for like only the main points. Coz sometimes there are small details that are suddenly being asked in the exam that you didn't think was important but it turns out to be important🤔

[@lhd7105]

Seems the wide consensus is that spaced-repetition systems like Anki are best for vocabulary. And the key thing to remember is to first understand the concept before trying to remember the technical words. So what's often unsaid is that folks will keep a notebook along side decks of Anki flash cards. So whether that's OneNote, EverNote, Notion or Google Docs--you'd use them for tracking your lectures/book-reading of _concepts_. And you can also write in the margins questions to quiz yourself on concepts. It's worth checking out something called Cornell Notetaking to learn how to section pages of such note so that there's a place for everything (notes in short-hand, questions on the margin, summary in your own words) But then reserve Anki for assisting your recall of technical words or facts. Cheers!

[@lhd7105]

I love how this video answers the question all of us Anki failures are embarrassed to ask: why is using Anki causing our reading to grind to a halt and it feels like we are re-writing inside Anki the very books we are reading!!???? Turns out Elizabeth had asked the very same (which is fair, we are all mere-mortal and bump into the same questions) but unlike the herd--she bravely chase the rabbit down the rabbit hole until she's found a workable solution--in the form of a Nintendo cheat code no less *facepalm* (double gold star for Elizabeth!--Nintendo would be so proud *sniffles*) CTRL+C CTRL+V CTRL+SHIFT+C CTRL+ENTER Someone should print this on a t-shirt. Stat. LOL :) Elizabeth is absolutely right: something like this seriously needs to be friction-less--it needs to let you read your study material back at a normal speed--it needs to allow flash cards to appear magically in less than a second--it needs to let Anki resume being magical, light, hardly cost you any interest or mental energy.

[@hightfly9300]

By making clozes, how do you know if you answer because of pattern recognition and not because you recall the information itself? Not sure if that makes sense, but I realised by making clozes that I remembered the cards, not the questions, that’s why I stick to questions/answers.

[@elizabethfilips]

I get pattern recognition from everything, even if it's a flashcard too - so even though it might be less so with front-and-back flashcards, if you factor in the time too, for me it's soo much more worth it to use clozes

[@rikhil_8818]

Current year 1 med student here having the same problem. How do U convert Lectires into anki cards as I seem to generally put to much info in the cards or do too many cards for a lecture. Finding it takes a long time, as I watch the lecture first try understand then go thru the slides and making the cards

[@carmenimartinezbaez5595]

I only make flashcards of the things I struggle with or can’t memorize easily. This filters more than half of the problem for me.

[@rikhil_8818]

@@carmenimartinezbaez5595 how do you know what content you can memorize when ur making the flash cards during the lecture?

[@rikhil_8818]

@@elizabethfilips thanks for the detailed help, you really dont get that anywhere else, im subscribed for the future. thank you, good luck with the "Part-time KZbinr Academy" ;)

[@IMMERSIVEVOICE]

Can i use this method for books I’ve illegally downloaded too?

[@tubby7817]

*For youtube algorithm*

[@cristianoronaldofans5034]

Hello

[@cristianoronaldofans5034]

I am talk you urgently

[@shayarhashim7567]

Textbook that you have LEGALLY downloaded... 😬

[@rizaalj1838]

حلقوم مومرة

[@krstoevandrus5937]

didn't get what you say but i feel better after watching your video~ lovely white chick~

[@abdelkrimzaouidi3072]

This is general stuff without anything new or practical please try to create an original content with new ideas, everyone now knows what is anki and how to use it

[@abdelkrimzaouidi3072]

Keep it up i told you that so you try something new

[@ArcherNewton]

maybe for you but i found it useful to hear her perspective on failing to use flashcards the first time round and i would say lots of people might resonate with that too, including me.

[@abdelkrimzaouidi3072]

@@ArcherNewton of course that my personal point of view

[@blanfit7258]

You're too pretty to be a doctor

[@samdonelan6495]

I don't know if this is a bad or good thing