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I really love image mnemonics (old post from when I was a baby M1 for proof) and will readily admit that at least 80% of my medical knowledge is only retained because of them + Anki. Just wondering if the newer sketchy courses (biochem, physio, anatomy, biostats) are worth the time or if I should just focus on questions at this point. My school's dedicated period started yesterday and I already passed my school's mock Step exam (barely), but I wanna take advantage of this time to make sure that my foundation is as strong as possible for Step 2, which is actually scored and will likely be the new gaun

Obviously, this would've meant studying way in advance (for those in 2-year preclinicals) or a little ahead (for those in 1/1.5 year preclinicals). Just curious how many people who are supposed to take it P/F opted to take it before the change just to have the score (since our residency match/ERAS cycle is gonna be fucked with PDs' arbitrary decisions of whether or not to take the step 1 score into account if it's there)

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My average bedtime for the past 3 or 4 years is around 2:40 AM, regardless of whether or not there was a test the next day (including the MCAT). Yes, I know that it's weird. I had a, let's say, "suboptimal" time in high school and an annoying roommate in college who'd stay up to 4 AM playing overwatch when I had chem lab the next morning at 8 AM.

I'm sick of being on autopilot for required 8 AM classes/clinical experiences and I have way too little self-control to implement sleep hygiene outside of making my bedroom cold and dark.

Anyways any fellow night owls ever try out melatonin to force themselves to get themselves to sleep earlier? I was thinking of starting low dose at 0.5 mg

What do I mean by perceived antagonism? Basically, if I don't make the effort to check in with a colleague for a while, or it has otherwise been a long time since I've talked to someone I'm acquainted with, my brain will do a weird thing where it makes up an antagonistic relationship between us. In other words, I spin some story in my head where the only explanation as to why we haven't talked in so long is that they don't like me or hold me in spite for some reason. The worst part is that this feeling only exacerbates daily, up until the point when I coincidentally run into them and realize that it wasn't that way at all. We just hadn't talked in a while; there was nothing wrong or antagoni

TLDR: I am forever grateful to my brother for pushing me to keep playing tennis despite wanting to quit so many times, and if you feel like you can never get better at tennis because you've played for so long with no/minimal improvement, you're wrong. You just have to keep playing. Everyone improves at their own pace.

I just wanted to make this post in case anyone else is in the same shoes I was in when I first started playing tennis about a year and a half ago. Personally, I know that if I had seen a post like this at the time, that it would've helped with the way I approached tennis in my mind and may have alleviated some of my self-hatred. So here I go...

By most measures, I would

I won’t have my computer with me for a while so I’m stuck with using the iOS app. I wish the mobile browser were more robust, or at least had a little more functionality. As far as I can tell, I don’t see a way to view all my tags or search the sidebar for specific tags like you can on desktop. Is there no recourse for this?

What does a typical morning before a block/NBME exam look like for you? Does anyone have a certain offering to the medical exam gods that consistently brings good scores?

I’m usually paralyzed by indecision on how to most efficiently use the couple of hours before an exam so I end up reviewing random cards and praying to Lord Zanki that the reviews I do happen to be tested on the exam.

I know some people do a quick skim through the relevant section of FA, others just chill, and there are some who wake up 5 min before the exam and are on full anxiety mode to get to campus on time lol.

Just curious if anyone has a set routine for test days that works well for them! Feel free to share any

How many of y'all have clubs/organizations at your schools that have leadership teams literally consisting of one or more of the following:

1. not one, not two, but SEVEN "pReSiDeNtS" (yes I'm serious this is an actual leadership team at one of my school's clubs--they're all "presidents") OR
2. one president and five "cO-PrEsIdEnTs" OR
3. BS leadership positions like "eXeCuTiVe pReSiDeNt oF iNteRnaL AcAdEmIc aFfAiRs" (<--seriously, what the FUCK does that even mean? in which universe does ultimate frisbee have anything to do with academic affairs?)

Just curious if this is exclusive to my school. Granted, I go to a pretty huge school (>200 people per class and a ludicrous a

card ID of one of the cards: 1472782371220 (AnKing v9)

Why exactly do nitrates by themselves decrease ejection time, beta-blockers by themselves cause increased ejection time, and the combination cause little/no effect?

As I understand it, nitrates increase venous dilation -> less preload -> less EDV -> less SV. How does this affect ejection time at all?

Same with beta-blockers -> block Beta-1 -> decrease heart rate/contractility -> how does this increase ejection time exactly?

And I don't even have a semblance of an idea for why the effect of the combination is what it is.

I've found one similar thread o

This post is a semi-continuation of my previous post on r/Anki, wherein I discussed whether or not the onus lies completely on the student to implement spaced repetition in whatever they’re learning. I decided to post this here since I figured our neurotic med student base might be able to relate more to this question.

Full disclosure: I suffer from perfectionistic thought patterns that are oftentimes paralyzing mentally and thus spend a lot of time in my head ruminating over decisions that I end up never actually making for lack of confiden

Just from surfing around online there seems to be a plethora of resources for learning EKGs from textbooks to video lecture series, etc. etc. The BnB videos on EKGs are extremely barebones and don't really go past the surface of what an EKG is.

With that said, just for step prep/nbme purposes (i.e. not for an in-depth level of knowledge), what's the most time-efficient way to learn EKGs at a level that's "good enough" for in-house NBME exams? As far as decks are concerned I've found Hoop's EKG deck as well as the deck based on Dubin's guide to EKGs. Hoop's deck seems way overkill for NBME at 1k+ cards, whereas the Dubin deck seems more manageable at ~600.

I guess workflow with the Dubin

I'd assume that Ctrl+F would work in Windows. Not sure how well known this shortcut is, but I've spent so much time wishing there was a keyboard shortcut to jump to the search field while you're in the browser, and it turns out that there is one! Just wanted to share

The more I use Anki, the more I fail to understand what the point of just watching lectures, reading textbooks, etc. only one time is. I mean seriously, what’s the point? What’s the point of watching a lecture or reading a textbook chapter if you’re gonna forget it a day later without revisiting it or applying it?

Spaced repetition research has its roots all the way back to the late 1800s, with Ebbinghaus’ work on the forgetting curve. Multiple studies since the 1970s have shown that spaced repetition is effective for the long-term retention of learning material.

Even so, here we find ourselves halfway to 2022, with Anki and similar SRS being fringe software that essentially none of the g

The principle of Anki (and other software that utilize spaced repetition) is that reviewing content at spaced intervals will increase retention of that material over time as compared to not doing so. Unfortunately, the time commitment required to remain consistent in doing daily reviews is often prohibitive for not only new users who don’t completely understand how Anki works, but also for Anki veterans who have other priorities or constraints on their time (i.e. 3rd and 4th-year med students in clinical rotations).

Most people have heard of the Pareto principle, which essentially states that 80% of results come from 20% of work. Conversely,

This might be explained elsewhere but I was just wondering if anyone knew how to configure/customize how much the images magnify when you click on them in the reviewer. TIA