Congrats on your repo. Good to see more fellow medics using github!
One comment I would make on your approach to putting anki to work for you with medicine, is that it seems to rely on a 'factoids' approach, as opposed to a 'systematic' approach. This may not be the case with your learning more generally, but this is how your anki seems to be structured, so I am keen to make this observation: the problem with a 'factoids-based learning' approach, which unfortunately is all too common in medical education, is that it can backfire spectacularly, especially in an unstructured learning environment such as medicine, where physicians at ward rounds are much more likely to want to show you 'cool stuff' and 'exotic diagnoses', when they should be creating an appreciation and understanding of the 'boring' stuff first in a systematised manner instead. So you then go to final exams knowing all about cool factoids like what "moya moya" disease is and how it means 'puff of smoke' in japanese, but don't really quite know why right-sided heart failure doesn't quite immediately also cause left-sided heart failure directly and vice-versa, even though in theory it's all a connected tube. (totally random example, I assure you :p ).
One thing I did ages ago when I was finishing my own medical school journey (which I later deviated from to become an academic / biomedical engineer), was to formulate a "systematic approach to medicine". Everybody always talks of needing to have a 'system' when you first learn medicine, but nobody ever seems to quite know what this system is. So you need to figure out your own.
In the context of your systematic learning via Anki, I would advise you to formulate your cards such that they address all specific aspects of such a systematic approach. One way to do this via Anki specifically, would be to create a note type that goes through all aspects of that system per condition, but then generates specific cards for the parts that you want to extract as individual cards (rather than treating the whole note type as one mega-card you need to learn). This would not only help you be systematic in your learning, but it would also help you flag where gaps exist in your knowledge-base, since it would become immediately obvious at the point of creating your note, where areas of the 'system' are unaddressed.
Here is the link to my old 'system'. Feel free to take inspiration from it. (though if you do end up copying / using it formally in some capacity, I would appreciate an acknowledgement... :) )
This is incredibly invaluable advice. I thank you very much for it and for the kind words. I came to some of the same conclusions myself and had some ideas on how to adress them but your github will definitely help. Thank you very much.
One comment I would make on your approach to putting anki to work for you with medicine, is that it seems to rely on a 'factoids' approach, as opposed to a 'systematic' approach. This may not be the case with your learning more generally, but this is how your anki seems to be structured, so I am keen to make this observation: the problem with a 'factoids-based learning' approach, which unfortunately is all too common in medical education, is that it can backfire spectacularly, especially in an unstructured learning environment such as medicine, where physicians at ward rounds are much more likely to want to show you 'cool stuff' and 'exotic diagnoses', when they should be creating an appreciation and understanding of the 'boring' stuff first in a systematised manner instead. So you then go to final exams knowing all about cool factoids like what "moya moya" disease is and how it means 'puff of smoke' in japanese, but don't really quite know why right-sided heart failure doesn't quite immediately also cause left-sided heart failure directly and vice-versa, even though in theory it's all a connected tube. (totally random example, I assure you :p ).
One thing I did ages ago when I was finishing my own medical school journey (which I later deviated from to become an academic / biomedical engineer), was to formulate a "systematic approach to medicine". Everybody always talks of needing to have a 'system' when you first learn medicine, but nobody ever seems to quite know what this system is. So you need to figure out your own.
In the context of your systematic learning via Anki, I would advise you to formulate your cards such that they address all specific aspects of such a systematic approach. One way to do this via Anki specifically, would be to create a note type that goes through all aspects of that system per condition, but then generates specific cards for the parts that you want to extract as individual cards (rather than treating the whole note type as one mega-card you need to learn). This would not only help you be systematic in your learning, but it would also help you flag where gaps exist in your knowledge-base, since it would become immediately obvious at the point of creating your note, where areas of the 'system' are unaddressed.
Here is the link to my old 'system'. Feel free to take inspiration from it. (though if you do end up copying / using it formally in some capacity, I would appreciate an acknowledgement... :) )
https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/systematic-approach-to-medicin...
(or https://github.com/tpapastylianou/SystematicApproachToMedici... if you prefer github).
Hope it helps with your preparation! Good luck with the finals!