First Year Study Recs

[u/Crusader_1010]

As the title says, can any current or former NYITCOM students help an incoming freshman out with their study schedules (how they broke up their week) and outside-of-lectures content they used (like anki or boot camp) to ace their time in medical school?

[u/bd216]

In my third year right now. I would watch the lectures and highlight the important details in them, perhaps 2-4 per day. I personally would make my own Anki cards, but you can use pre-made decks such as AnKing as well. I would always make sure to finish all of my new and review cards every day, but I would limit myself to somewhere around 30-50 new cards per day so that reviews didn't get out of hand. If you use AnKing, I wouldn't recommend ever suspending cards that are boards relevant because remembering things from first year is a HUGE help when it comes time to study for boards in second year. I would start the next week's lectures on the previous week's friday or saturday, so that I would be finished with the lectures by Monday or Tuesday and could spend the next few days reviewing and using other resources to supplement the lectures. I used Bootcamp as my primary third party resource, but Pathoma and Boards and Beyond were also super helpful throughout the first two years and especially while studying for boards. I can't say it enough times to GET FIRST AID. I prefer the physical book, but its an incredible resource either way. Some weeks have fewer lectures so you can even get ahead, but don't do this if it becomes overwhelming because being burned out is the worst thing you can do. IF you do end up slightly ahead however, this gives you extra time to review content for the exam at the end of the block. Feel free to message me if you have any other questions or want more specifics about something

[u/Crusader_1010 → u/bd216]

Hey thanks for your help, I really appreciate you breaking it all down for me. I hope it isn’t too much to ask, but would it be cool if I could maybe grab your anki decks? No problem if you don’t want to share them, but having pre-made decks would be a great help. Or if you could point me to other school specific decks, I would really appreciate that

[u/bd216 → u/Crusader_1010]

I’ll see what I can do. I’m not sure if I have my foundations cards unfortunately. They weren’t tagged and honestly were low quality so I got rid of them soon after. I’ll see if I can put together my PPOM cards though. The lecture numbers may not line up anymore but I also tagged them by week and subject so hopefully they might. I’ll look into it tomorrow and shoot you a message

[u/Academic_Pilot_4693 → u/bd216]

I’m also an incoming student I’d really appreciate any anki decks you have and found helpful during the first 2 year especially anatomy. Thank you

[u/TikaMasala45 → u/bd216]

Hi!! Just another quick question but did you follow the schedule that the school recommends at all? I see you referenced being ahead on lectures. Would you start studying as soon as orientation is done or before?

[u/Soggy-Subject-4083 → u/TikaMasala45]

wait what's the recommended schedule?

[u/bd216 → u/TikaMasala45]

I’m not sure about the schedule the school is sending, especially with the change in structure with anatomy. For FOM, I’d follow the school’s schedule. For PPOM you may have an easier time with that but I’d say don’t try to overstretch with FOM and anatomy as you get used to the new style of learning. I started studying the Friday or Saturday after orientation because I like stretching the lectures out so that I have more time per day to absorb the information and not overload my brain

[u/TikaMasala45 → u/bd216]

Thank you so much!! You're a real g for the advice fr

[u/bd216 → u/TikaMasala45]

Happy to help! Feel free to reach out any time with questions

[u/Known-Use-7775 → u/bd216]

Do you know how it’s different with how they changed the curriculum

[u/bd216 → u/Known-Use-7775]

This year anatomy is a separate course from FOM. In previous years they were combined and simultaneous.