The Medical Millennial
Thoughts of a med student

Medical School

Resources For Overall Content

Boards and Beyond

  • What: Short and dense videos that are perfect for all the high-yield information you need to know
  • Why: A great resource for students who prefer to skip lectures and self-teach material instead
  • When: Most helpful for year 1/2 didactics and Step 1 studying. May also be used to review material on an as-need basis during clerkships.

Pathoma

  • What: Great for longer “lecture-esque” videos that go into more depth on concepts as opposed to high-yield facts.
  • Why: May be used to supplement Boards and Beyond or in-house lectures for better understanding a certain topic.
  • When: Most helpful for year 1/2 didactics and Step 1 studying.

Sketchy Medical

  • What: Uses picmonics to help you memorize all high yield facts for pharmacology, microbiology, and pathology
  • Why: A great addition to supplement either Boards and Beyond/Pathoma or in-house lectures
  • When: Most helpful for year 1/2 didactics and Step 1 studying. May also be used to review material during clerkships.

For specific resources for the Psychiatry Clerkship, check out this blog post.

Content Checklists:

*to download, right click on photo and save image then print full sized*

*to download, right click on photo and save image then print full sized*

Question Banks

UWorld

  • What: One of the most well-known “gold standard” question bank in medical school.

  • Why: Has thousands of questions in NBME style to help you prepare for any standardized exam in medical school.

  • When: Definitely use during Step 1 and 2 studying in addition to rotation shelf exams. I didn’t personally use it during pre-clinical years, but it definitely would have helped on the earlier NBME exams.

    • Amboss

  • What: A newer, amazing resource that includes not only question banks, but also articles on every topic you’ll need to know with corresponding Osmosis Videos.

  • Why: A great resource for both learning and reviewing topics.

  • When: As soon as possible. Truly a resource I plan to keep for the remainder of med school because the articles and videos are so helpful!

    • Anki

    To download Anki: click here

    Add-ons I use:

    • Button Colors Good Again: 2494384865
    • Frozen Fields: 516643804
    • Hierarchal Tags 2: 594329229 (very important add-on)
    • Image Occlusion: 1374772155 (very important add-on)
    • Format Pack: 295889520
    • Postpone Cards: 1152543397
    • Special Fields: 1102281552
    • Zoom 2.1: 1846592880Review
    • Heatmap (the colored map at the bottom of the screen): this one does not have a code, click here and follow the instructions in the screenshot

    *Remember to restart Anki after adding add-ons!*

    Decks:

    Anking: Download here

    *best for literally everything, Step 1, Step 2, preclinicals and clinicals*

    Tzanki: Download here

    *best for Step 2 and clinical years studying*

    Netter’s Anatomy: Download here

    *best for anatomy*

    Resources for Anatomy

    Where to next?