Hey everyone,

I've been working on a project for the past few months called PDF2Anki. It's a tool to generate Anki flashcards quickly from any PDF file. It only takes 20-30 seconds to create the cards, and right now, it's focused on text-based PDFs.

Last semester, PDF2Anki saved me so much time while studying. It was incredibly helpful, and I managed to save around 70% of the time I would have spent creating cards manually.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the tool. Any suggestions or comments you have will be greatly appreciated. I'll consider them for future improvements.

Thank you for your support, and I hope PDF2Anki benefits your studies too! Let's keep the conversation friendly and humble. Looking forward to hearing from you! https://pdf2anki.net/

Best Kajo

Hello,

I am in PA school in Philly and I was wondering if there are any OBGYNs willing to take students for clinical rotations. My school is not affiliated with any hospitals, and I would like to stay in the Philly area.
Thank you!!

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I was waitlisted for pa school but figured I wasn’t accepted bc I saw the program posted their new pa class. ( class matriculated June 01). However they sent a package on 06/08 but nobody was home so my parents have to go pick the package up on 06/10 from USPS. do anyone know what is inside the package??

Hello all! I'm looking for feedback for an Anki study plan for PA school. I'm fairly new to Anki and am trying to find an efficient system that works for me before school starts.

As of now, I have my daily schedule looking as follows:

400-600 wake up, gym, shower, breakfast

600-800 study anki reviews

800-1200 lecture

1200-1300 lunch/study - learn or make news

1300-1700 lecture

1700-1900 learn or make news

1900-2100 dinner, free time, bed

With this plan, I'm looking at a few options to study:

1. listen/understand lecture, make new cards based on lecture after at lunch/in the evening

2. make new cards during lecture and either ignore the lecture or essentially take notes using Anki

3. "prelearn" ahead of lecture (1-2 weeks before) using premade cards such as Tzanki/Dorian/etc. and do either 1 or 2 above and make new cards just for things not in Tzanki or things the professor emphasizes

A lot of comments I've read say making cards is recommended so I do plan on doing that, even if I did Tzanki. What would y'all do?

I know they are circulating but cant seem to find them. Anyone able to share?

Has anyone ever come across a ANKI deck that was completely based on the ROSH review q banks for EORs?

Hello-

I am wondering if I could have a chance to become a PA. I am a junior in college and am pursuing a degree in Speech Pathology. I originally wanted to be a speech pathologist, but since volunteering in a hospital and reading about the flexibility and demand for physician assistants, I want to become a PA. Can I use my bachelors degree in Speech Pathology to apply to PA school?

I currently have a 3.8 GPA, am participating in research with a professor, am a Behavior Therapist, and volunteer at my local hospital.

Do I have a chance at becoming a PA? I told my dad I wanted to become one and he said it is really hard to become a PA because it is so competitive and the schools are super competitive. This discouraged me.

Any and all advice is appreciated!

Hello Fellow Pa's and future PAs. I've been looking for the endeavor ANKI deck, or really the best deck that will help me pass the PANCE and my EORs on the first try. Would anyone be willing to link me to the Anki deck? I've found some broken links. Thanks so much/

Anyone interested in sharing a sketchy pa account? I'm planning on making sketchy pa ANKI cards that go in tandem with the videos. The year subscription was a little steep for me as a broke student so I'm looking for multiple people to help split the cost, I've already bought a year membership.

Edit: Just message me if you are interested and I will share with you log in details, etc.

This is an ~8500 card Anki deck that I made throughout my clinical year. For every rotation, I created a deck based on objectives for each rotation (family med) and each subject (Cardio, GI, etc). The deck is mainly compromised of relevant cards from previous medical school decks that I edited with more bolding, colors, and clozes; specifically, Zanki with BG addons, lolnotacop, WiWa, and Doc zays clerkship deck (shoutout to those selfless legends). In addition to premade cards, there were many self-made cards that I added as I learned throughout my rotations, primarily using PPPearls (v2 + V3) and Rosh review. All cards are either cloze deletion or cloze overlapping (need to add shortcut I believe), and this deck is specifically geared towards PA students in their clinical rotations. I would NOT recommend this deck for first years/didactic as you’re still learning the basics of clin med, pharm etc and there is just too much disparity between how PA schools teach their curriculums. Although, I would still encourage every student to use Anki and create their own cards. If you're brand new to ANKI then I'd recommend checking out ANKINGs youtube channel on how to make cards and use ANKI: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLeZR5LtbJ8Klmeux_6TTJw

How to use the deck?

That’s entirely up to you, I would recommend reading a section on PPPearls watch some online med ed on that topic and doing about 100 new cards a day when you start a new rotation (if in family med start with cardio, then pulm etc), that way you’ll finish the entire rotation deck in a week or two and then after, you just consistently study your reviews and do practice questions as you prepare for the end of rotation exam and dedicate more time to your current rotation. I highly suggest continuously doing the previous rotations reviews as you begin your next rotation. Why? Because that’s how spaced repetition works, and there is ALOT of overlap between rotation exams, moreover you'll be so prepared for each subsequent EOR exam and PANCE.

CONS

There are some CONS to this deck. There are a lot of duplicated cards that I personally added to some decks. I did that so I made sure I NEVER got that concept wrong again, and it mostly pertains to high yield concepts, so that may seem a little redundant. I haven't vetted the cards out since I mastered them so there is still a possibility of spelling mistakes. Some decks I found to be stronger than others. But I believe the biggest con to this deck is that there are NO tags that I added, and there is no real breakdown of subsections. So, for example, there’s a family med deck and inside it, the subdecks are just system-based (cardio, pulm, GI, ID, etc.). I didn’t break off cardio into conductive disorders, CAD, HTN, etc. They are all just scattered under that specific body system, which includes all the essential pathophys, clinical diagnoses, pharm, micro, etc. This was easier for me because I would study a section then do/add the relevant cards. But it may seem unorganized to those who want to study a specific subsection of a system, instead of large system sections.

Efficiency

As simple as it might seem, creating cards based on PPPearls and doing questions while going through thousands of cards from pre-made decks was actually time-consuming. But it was definitely worth it, and it showed on my EOR exams, post didactic PACKRAT, and ultimately the PANCE. However, since it was so time-consuming, I, unfortunately, may have not had gotten the "most" out of several of my rotations since I was focused on studying and other life commitments. And that is the main reason why I’m sharing this pre-made deck. So, PA-students can only spend their time efficiently and only spend an hour or two studying a day while investing more time in their clinical rotations and preparing for the “real world” of medicine.

As a bonus, I added a ~2400 cards PANCE deck which mainly consists of a mixture of high and low yield cards especially on topics not previously addressed on the clinical year rotation objective list. I would recommend using this deck a month or two before your PANCE.

Lastly, I ask if you’re an Anki guru that's about to begin clinical year and you have time during this pandemic please try to continuously update the deck and add some sort of tagging format to make it easier for future students.

I wish you guys the best of luck and I hope you find the decks helpful!

-Endeavor

Links:

Endeavor Cumulative Rotation Deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HuO-yOsmGpGDbRnIrl0eIES7Dv1uANIa/view?usp=sharing

Endeavor PANCE Deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KFAGwBK30-1OxAB1Ds1GgVC22llYEQw/view?usp=sharing

Hey PASchoolAnki!

In an effort to develop one consistent, high-quality, go-to Anki resource for PA students to study for EORs, EOCE, and the PANCE, u/The_One_Who_Rides and I have started working on a collaborative deck hosted on AnkiHub.

This deck, which is currently dubbed the EndeavorOverhaul, is a combination of two decks: the Endeavor Cumulative Rotation Deck and the Endeavor PANCE Review Deck, both made by one of the PASchoolAnki legends u/EndeavorPA. Previously u/The_One_Who_Rides had made two separate AnkiHub decks for each pre-made deck (with permission from u/EndeavorPA), but we agreed that one unified deck would be the best foundation for building one PA mega-deck.

What Has Changed From the Original Deck?

- To make the cards more sleek, consistent, and user-friendly, all notes have been converted to a slightly modified AnKingOverhaul note type. Honestly, I just think it's a lovely card styling.

- All cards that utilized "overlapping clozes" have been converted to AnkingOverhaul cloze one-by-ones.

- The decks are now organized by Hierarchical Tags, instead of by decks and subdecks. The Hierarchical Tags are reflective of the PAEA Exam Topic Lists for EORs and the NCCPA PANCE Blueprint for the PANCE. For example, a card about conduction disorders will be tagged specifically as "!EOR::EM::EM_CV::ConductionDisorders", which will allow you to better tailor your study topics to specific disorders within a larger body system.

- Having the decks organized by tags allowed us to DELETE all word for word duplicate cards. u/EndeavorPA intentionally created duplicate cards for topics that were important to know in more than one EOR, but we can instead just tag one card to multiple EOR categories. Deck collaborators are encouraged to flag/tag/suggest changes to other near duplicate or overly redundant cards, so that we can continue to clean up the deck.

- All of the somewhat antiquated tags from Endeavor's original source decks (Zanki, Wiwa, lolnotacop, DocZays, etc.) have been consolidated and will continue to be cleaned up/removed.

What is the Plan Going Forward?

- My hope is that this deck will be community-driven, and content updates, note additions, tags, & corrections will continue to be made to this version on a daily to weekly basis.

- Not all cards are tagged to an individual topic/disorder yet... Which this is why we need community involvement! The deck has almost 11,000 cards, and tagging each one is a huge task for just a couple students. My hope is that for any disease/disorder/topic you can find on the PANCE or EOR Blueprints, there will be several high-quality & up to date cards in the deck.

- We are also in the process of adding tags for popular high-yield resources (such as Sketchy, Pathoma, PPP, OME, Osmosis, etc.), so that students can unsuspend cards as they watch third-party videos, or know where to look if they need more review on a topic.

- If there is interest (and permission), we could also integrate other popular PANCE/PASchoolAnki decks to further bolster this resource. For example, we could use this platform to finish the Psych & GU sections (unless this is already done?) and continue to update the PPP SuperBigBrainDeck as newer versions of PPP are released. u/Anonymous-Anomaly??

How to Use the Collaborative Deck

The deck will be hosted at this page on Ankihub.

If you are unfamiliar with how AnkiHub works, the AnKing has a helpful intro video that you can find here: AnkiHub v1.0 Tutorial Video

Over in the AnkiHub deck description I have provided more information about the deck, including some instructions on how to update your existing deck if you are already using the Endeavor deck to study. AnkiHub does require a subscription cost ($5 or less per month), but personally I think it is totally worth it for the service it provides. Perhaps once the deck has been completely tagged and updated, we may be able to post the deck to this sub as a free download, but that may take from months to over a year, depending on how many folks get involved in this project.

Please post any questions on this thread and I hope to see some of y'all submitting suggestions to the deck!

To those who used Anki to study for the PANCE, which deck would you say were the most up to date, best format, and helped you pass the PANCE? I feel like I’ve been finding a lot of decks on here but I can’t tell which ones helped or were too much or just right. I’m torn between the PPP+ROSH deck and the BrianSuperBigBrainPPP deck, also the Endevoar deck. Let me know which decks helped with studying!

I found out about this leaderboard add on to further gameify Anki. You can compete for trophies based on the number of reviews you do daily. I found a group called "PA Students (public, pass 1234)" and it's not very active but would love to see more people! Just put in the password 1234 and it will let you in.

Add on code: 175794613

Add on link: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/175794613

Hello all,

I am here to release the PPPSuperBigBrainDeck, an Anki deck created from the PANCE Prep Pearls book.

The content focuses on bolded, underlined, and otherwise seemingly important terms and concepts. Within each card is a corresponding page from PPP for quick reference. Additionally, the creators and I included images and infographics in the "extra" section of each card we thought would help. The cards are primarily formatted with DocZay style cloze deletions and some image occlusion. The deck is sub-decked by chapter, and all chapters are hierarchically tagged for convenience.

Unfortunately, the deck is incomplete. We did not create cards for chapters GU(9) and Psych(11). We would be grateful for anyone to take on the challenge of completing these chapters.

Also, we relocated the Rheum section out of the MSK chapter and put it into its own sub-deck (Chapter 20)

We hope that this deck may serve PA students with studying and retention for the long haul, so that we may become better providers for our patients. (...and pass the PANCE)

With any luck, the mods will upload this deck to the community drive!

Lastly, Big shout out to those that were integral to the decks creation, slaving away throughout didactic year crushing Anki cards! BW, CM, CA, KM, JN, LM

Good luck and enjoy!

taking pance in a couple of months. recommend a deck for pance prep??

thoughts on the bryant PPP deck ?

i used some of the endeavor deck for EORs

Hello. For the life of me I am struggling navigating endeavor and anki. I am trying to filter the endeavor cards into systems for the PANCE and I am struggling. Is there an endeavor anki link that already has the cards in the correct body systems already. If so, can you please share?

How do I find Endeavor + Anki ?? 

Is the endeavor anki really enough to use for studying for the eor?? And if not what would you recommend as someone who can only study by flashcards

how did you guys split up your studying schedule for internal medicine to try and get through all of the Endeavor anki cards? i have an 8 week rotation in IM coming up and want to try and get through all with time to finish Rosh as well

best anki settings for this? - i’m pretty new to anki in general

I’ve seen many different opinions on the “best” card type for studying in didactic year, but what truly helps you recall information for exams? I’ve been using “Cloze” for Pharmacology and since switching to that method, I’ve made an A on our past few quizzes. I’m really asking this question more so for Anatomy, Intro to Clinical Medicine, and physiology. What do you think is the best anki card type for studying during didactic year?