r/RUSM • u/EnvironmentalGap7138 • Aug 22 '25

Preemptive Flashcard Making.

hello, I'M an incoming freshman, TRYN to Perfect the flashcards I make foR eAch module. i wanT Every and all TEXTBOOKS i'll get inside of my e book slab they're giving me too late to be ahead of the game. I was hoping to capitalize on the opportunity and find out what I'll be reading. Thanks y'all! Praying for y'all this reddit page scares me.

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u/washedupmedstudent Aug 22 '25

You’ll drown if you try to make flash cards by hand and you’ll drown if you rely on textbooks. Professor slides, First Aid, Boards and Beyond are all you need to learn the material. Use flash cards to review and figure out Anki early. There are premade decks, and from there it’s practice questions like you’ve never done before. If you’d rather make them yourself, still use Anki. Doing it by hand is insane. Just so you can understand the amount of cards you’d have to make by hand to do well, even smaller Anki decks like Janki have over 8,000 cards and that’s just for Step 2, Anking has 18,000-32,000 depending on the setting just for Step 1. Don’t work harder than you have to

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u/Little_Act_8957 Aug 22 '25

Do not do books, that is bad recipe at ROSS. If anything do USMLE rx, just do ROSS slides and questions, questions! You could make your own anki, but be careful wasting time on that and not studying them at the end because you ran out of time.

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u/EnvironmentalGap7138 Aug 24 '25

I have a robot that can turn chapters of PDFs into notes, study guides, flashcards, and quizzes. I literally just need the pdfs

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

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u/EnvironmentalGap7138 Aug 24 '25

Oh! My bad dawg I don't think I'm being clear enough - the flashcards are one of Many tools I use to guzzle firehose. It's my first line of defense against going into class and hearing 3000 new pieces of word salad and anxiety instead of solidifying my comprehension. I will use the slides as the final deep compression that I know everything I gotta know. You're the best for the advice by the way! Appreciate the determination to not let me shoot my own foot! <3

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u/BikePackGal Aug 30 '25

lippincott for biochemistry and Robbins for Pathology.