![]() from Robbin's Pathology, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine and other English/Australian resources us Australian medical students are told to read) to replace the existing AnKing US-specific card fields. particularly in the Red Book), Up To Date (if eTG is too verbose), Textbook (ie. eTG Complete (for management), Talley O'Connor (for clinical features/physical exam stuff), RACGP Management (many good flowcharts for screening, etc. So this is why I'm making this post - I am looking for a handful of dedicated volunteers across medical students in Australia to help me put together an Aussie version of the AnKing deck, with some modified fields for the AnKing cards to input the relevant Australian-specific data ie. Hence its popularity in particular for medical students. I would strongly suggest you have a read around online into what it is, because there has been extensive research showing that spaced repetition (the fundamental principle of Anki) is one of the most effective and efficient ways of learning and retaining knowledge. If you don't know what Anki is, I do apologise that you're probably sitting here very confused about what I'm going on about. That being said, it is a fantastic base resource, particularly the pathophysiology/microbiology cards, although much of it goes beyond the scope of what most of us over here are actually ever expected to learn. Many of the "fields" in the AnKing Step1/2 Anki cards all have sources from US resources (such as Sketchy, OME, First Aid for the USMLE) that the vast majority of us would never use. Also, the renowned AnKing deck which a lot of our US medical student counterparts use is based very heavily on US management/investigation guidelines with imperial units, making it somewhat problematic to use for us over here. The closest thing to it was the huge "DOPE" deck, made by a UOND (I think?) med student a few years back, but even this deck was based heavily on US resources, and it also hasn't received updates since it was released. The main reason why this software is so exciting is because as far as I'm aware there's no dedicated "Australian-specific" Medicine Anki deck like there is in the US, and this is largely because we don't have standardized exams across medical schools. The creator has also stated that he and his team are looking at implementing a freemium model so people will not need to pay to access the base features, but it is still very early stages. The rest of Anki is open source and indeed the creator of AnkiHub has been very vocal about his opposition to monetization in the interests of ultimately advancing medical knowledge globally. And before you yell at me, for full disclosure - I have absolutely no financial interest in the project nor have been told to advertise anything by anyone involved in AnkiHub - I am genuinely interested in this project and believe it has the potential to change medical education for the better. There is a US$5/month subscription fee to use AnkiHub, but given the enormous amount of coding and software involved, I honestly think this is a small price to pay for what it actually does. You can read more about this on the Reddit post here and here. A team of dedicated deck moderators will then sort through these recommended changes and decide what to update/add before these changes are published and synced to all the subscribers. Think of it as a Wikipedia for Anki cards (anyone can suggest edits). All subscribers can also suggest changes to the deck, suggest cards to add/remove and altogether comment/provide feedback on suggested changes. Basically, it's a form of collaborative Anki decks which allows users to create base decks and then various "subscribers" to the decks all receive constant synced updates. You may not be aware, but very recently a project I have been following very closely now for the past two years has come to fruition called "AnkiHub". ![]() I don't think there's an existing thread on this so I'm going to post this here and I'll let the mods move it to the appropriate place if need be.
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