Right now, it has been updated to version 8 and contains some 32000 flashcards. The deck I used was the AnKing Step 1 Overhaul. I highly recommend going through Anki 101 Basic Skills playlist before reading the rest of this, as I’m going to use some terminology related to Anki moving forward. Once again, I only used Anki, in addition to questions solving (Uworld, and a bit of AMBOSS, but I’ll get to that later).īefore I move forward, this Youtube channel is your friend regarding Anki and related USMLE decks: I did not use any textbooks whatsoever, nor did I take any notes or otherwise. By now, I’m sure most of you have heard of it, but for those who haven’t: Anki is a flashcard program that uses spaced repetition for maximal long-term memory retention of information. My primary and only source of “studying” was Anki. I received my score report on the 6th of January, 2021 (3 weeks later). My total study period was ten months, from February of 2020, until my exam date on the 17th of December, 2020. How long did it take to prepare for Usmle Step 1? I began preparing for the USMLE Step 1 starting February/March after that, which coincided with the beginning of my internship year (which ends in March 2021). I finished my 12th and final semester in November 2019. This write-up is, more or less, my personal experience and endorsement for the use of Anki.įirstly, I’m a graduate of Alexandria University in Egypt. I want to share my experience studying, the sources and methods I used, and any mistakes I made, and things I could have done better. This experience of Abdelrahman Mostafa Ibrahim IMG medical students from Egypt.
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