Flashcards for medical school, made from your own lectures

Why medical students live on flashcards

Medicine is volume. Thousands of facts, many of them small and exact, that you need on exam day and years later on the ward. Testing yourself on cards and spacing the reviews out is the most efficient way known to keep that much in memory, which is why so many medical students use spaced repetition.

Your lectures, not someone else's deck

Premade decks are huge and well made, but they follow someone else's syllabus. Your exams follow your lecturers: their emphasis, their numbers, their wording. FlashCardz writes cards from your own slides and notes, so what you review is what you'll be asked.

Each card quotes its line and links to its slide. When a card says the cut-off for HFrEF is an ejection fraction of 40% or less, you can open lecture 4, page 3, and see it marked.

Diagrams and image occlusion

Anatomy lives in pictures. Hide the labels on a diagram and name each structure from memory with image-occlusion cards, cropped straight from a page of your lecture. Cards about a figure point to the part of the slide they're about.

Bring your Anki decks

Already using Anki? Import your .apkg decks with their images, subdecks and, if you want it, your review history, so nothing starts from zero. Your own cards and the ones FlashCardz writes are scheduled together. More on switching from Anki.

Every night, cards for what you missed

On Plus, the ideas you got wrong today come back tonight as new cards from another angle: the mechanism instead of the name, the drug class instead of the drug, the case instead of the definition. You don't just see the same card again; you see the idea differently.

Built around your exam dates

Give each module its exam date and the course with the nearest exam comes first. Spaced repetition times your reviews so the facts are there on the day, and you can still cram the last week if you need to.

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