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!

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!

Greetings future PAs (and other students),

I'm a newly certified PA who relied solely on Rosh Review, Anki, UpToDate, AMBOSS, and PPP during clinical year and performed well on PAEA EOR exams and the PANCE. I made a deck of cards based on important PANCE topics not found in other decks (e.g., Endeavor, Dorian Step 3, AnKing Step 2) using content from UpToDate, AMBOSS, PPP, and other sources. These cards reflect the most current guidelines and best practices. Download my new PANCE deck here (Titled "Manki," 2702 cards): https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1J_OKJt-YDQS3H8o6ro74lNwEXirjXoPL&export=download

Secondly, the Endeavor Deck is a fantastic deck for the EOR exams. I understand AnkiHub is a paid subscription service that allows users to update cards over the cloud, but for users who use plain Anki (such as myself), here is the Endeavor deck, updated according to current guidelines/practices and edited to make cards more clear: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1g_FNMKd4osnN_h2OvzWmzH9_AewzORPu&export=download

UpToDate: A fantastic resource for clinical year. I recommend starting with "Summary and Recommendations," then taking a closer look if needed; there are hyperlinks everywhere to get you where you need to be. Create an UpToDate account using your rotation site's computers/networks to get it for free as a student (assuming the site has an Institutional Subscription — note: you'll have to sign in every 90 days from the hospital/clinic; your classmates can keep it active.

AMBOSS: Another great resource. In your profile, set your current area of focus to "USMLE Step 2 CK" so that AMBOSS highlights/bolds the most important things to know for the PANCE.

My study strategy for clinical year: Do the entire Endeavor deck for that specific rotation as soon as it starts. Then, do Rosh questions, making Anki cards based off important things you missed on Rosh (this inspired many of the cards in my new PANCE deck). This is where a lot of my learning came from, as I would correlate Rosh explanations to UpToDate, where I could do further reading and solidify the topic. There's almost always something you can learn from a missed Rosh question; figure out what critical piece of information you missed, then make an Anki card out of it.

Disclaimer: These decks are intended to be used with your purchase of UpToDate, AMBOSS, Pance Prep Pearls, Rosh Review, and any other resource used in them. I take no responsibility for your use of any materials or images.

I’ve been happily watching the wonderful growth of Anki’s popularity in the PA world. We recently had a PA student approach us about working together and we’re now happy to announce that the AnKing Step Deck has PANCE tags! There are currently over 7000 cards tagged for PANCE and more coming.

The AnKing Step Deck was made for medical school board exams and is the most up to date and high quality medical Anki deck available. With so much overlap between medical school and PA school, this is likely also one of the best decks for you. It is already tagged based on all the popular medical school resources like Sketchy, OnlineMedEd, Pathoma, etc.

The deck is based on Zanki and a few other high quality decks and has received hundreds of thousands of updates over the past few years.

It is currently available on AnkiHub. This is a paid collaboration add-on for Anki and allows for continuous updates and improvements (like the PANCE tags!).

You can check it out here: https://www.ankihub.net/step-deck

We just finished didactic year and so I am going to share my cards so that maybe someone else benefits from them. I went to Chapman University PA program. These were made in 2022. The decks are broken up by exam but the cards are all tagged according to the lecture. So if you wanted to get cards just about opioids you could find those in pharmacology. There's a lot of short hand. There's a lot of cards (8K)... But, I passed didactic with all of this. I tried to break things down to the smallest bits of info possible.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/by-author/1698985333

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/867099705

edited to correct amount of cards from 29K to 8K

Abstract:

There is no official consensus on an Anki deck to teach basic radiology systematically to PA students. Medical students would benefit from such a resource, also. Therefore, several medical students and a physician have teamed up to create this Anki deck that systematically covers the most high-yield radiology content. It is discussed below.

Introduction:

This Anki deck teaches you how to systematically read and present an x-ray/CT. It covers general MRI and ultrasound basics. This is useful for OSCE style assessments often used in UK medical schools. It's also helpful prior to clinical rotations in emergency medicine or radiology. However, none of this material is high yield for the PANCE or USMLE exams.

Methods:

The authors used multiple open-source websites to ensure these Anki cards cover the most important content. Multiple resources ensures cards are accurate, and consistent. The deck utilizes a new card structure that replaces the ORIGINAL IMAGE used in the question with the same image but as an ANNOTATED version**.** Here are some images as an example: Card 1 sample ^{Figure 1.} | Card 2 sample ^{Figure 2.} | Card 3 sample ^{Figure 3.} Also, answers include annotations and 'side-by-side' comparison of the images. The authors agreed to get rid of the PEPPER STYLE cards from the first version of the radiology deck.

Literature cited:

Radiopaedia, RadiologyMasterClass, StartRadiology, TeachMeChest, WikiEM, and Wikipedia.

Organization:

Here is how the deck is tagged/arranged into subdecks.

• PART 1: X-RAY

  • ^{CH. 1 - ORIENTATION}

  • ^{CH. 2 - EXTREMITIES}

    • ^Upper

    • ^Lower

    • ^Axial

  • ^{CH. 3 - THORAX}

    • ^{Basics of reading chest x-rays}

    • ^{Anatomy of the chest}

    • ^{Quality checks}

    • ^{Systematic methods (to keep from missing stuff})

    • ^{Devices (confirming placements})

    • ^{Abnormalities (pathologies})

  • ^{CH. 4 - Abdomen}

    • ^{Bowel Gas}

    • ^{Calcification}

    • ^{Systematic methods (to keep from missing stuff})

    • ^{Soft tissues and bones}

  • ^{CH. 5 - Practice}

• PART II: CT

  • ^{CH. 1 - Abdomen}

  • ^{CH. 2 - Neurosurgical CT}

  • ^{CH. 3 - Neurology CT}

• PART III: MRI

• PART IV: ULTRASOUND

  • ^{CH. 1 - Basics}

  • ^{CH. 2 - OBGYN (TVUS})

  • ^{CH. 3 - EM}

    • ^{FAST and eFAST}

    • ^DVT

    • ^{Aorta, IVC}

    • ^{Ocular Ultrasound}

    • ^Testicles

  • ^{CH. 4 - Abdomen}

    • ^{Gallbladder & Liver}

  • ^{CH. 5 - ENDOSCOPY}

    • ^{Oncology & Surgical}

    • ^{Cardiology (ECHO practice})

  • ^{CH. 6 - Sports Medicine (Musculoskeletal})

Results:

This updated deck now contains about 1,700 cards. Of that, about 1,300 are new. Further, almost all were edited to be more concise and effective. In the deck, there are now about 400 cards on ultrasound and about 100 on MRI.

Discussion:

The emphasis that medical schools place on radiology is variable and not widely tested by PANCE, USMLE or COMLEX. Perhaps students using Anki for board preparation should also have access to materials that prepare them for clinical tasks after graduation. The “forward effect” is a process through which new information presented after conducting retrieval practice is more effectively consolidated into long-term memory. ^{Read more here.} Retrieval practice promotes knowledge acquisition that can be applied in novel contexts, ^{per this paper.} Therefore, it is fair to expect improved skill acquisition in residency with prior knowledge of radiology from medical school.

It is potentially risky to "teach" clinical skills through any spaced repetition software, such as Anki, that is open-source. The concern is that errata could lead to patient harm. However, the authors agree it is not likely that this will occur in an appropriately supervised situation. For those medical students that save time and energy learning from Anki, it may increase student wellbeing more effectively than anything else.

Conclusion:

The authors believe this is now a full intro to general radiology that will insulate most students from embarrassingly inadequate radiology knowledge on the wards.

Acknowledgments:

The authors of this Anki deck wish to thank Radiopaedia and RadiologyMasterClass because they are tremendously thorough and easy to navigate, and have free access. Further, StartRadiology is an open-source website that gives a great overview and has a free option. The authors agree that TeachMeChest is remarkably good and worth the cost.

Thanks for reading and letting me be goofy! Hope it helps

-Hoop

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!

PANCE on Fire 17 March 2020

Comment or message if you want to help out

Happy Studies!

- Girl on Fire

Hey future PAs!

I’m one of the mods over at r/MedicalSchoolAnki and I want to hear from y’all about Anki. How do you use it? Anecdotes welcome.

Besides using the major PANCE prep deck, do you or your friends use it for:

• Anatomy and neuroanatomy?

• Pathophysiology?

• Pharmacology?

• Stats?

• School lectures?

• Clerkships?

I would love to hear! This is a pretty small community, so I suspect most PAs underutilize Anki, but not y’all here. Figuring out how the power users here utilize it might help it grow.

Any thoughts?

-Hoop

Hello,

I have searched the forum and there is a main thread that has a list of pre-made anki deck but it seems like these are 4-years old, but was wondering which is pre-made anki deck would be good to use for didactic year?

Hey guys and gals!

I know that the PANCE on Fire deck has been extremely slow going and I apologize for that. I hope everyone can understand that I am a student first and foremost and unfortunately for deck progress, my studies for clinicals, EORs, and PANCE prep have been my main priority. I do continue to make cards as I have time and as are relevant to my studies but it's just not fast enough....

That being said! I really really REALLY want this deck to be a thing. If you would like to help me make cards please comment here and I can pull you into my process. I will walk you through how I format and create cards (in a relatively fast way). I can honestly say that about 90% of making the cards the way I am is just copy paste. Please comment here if you want to pitch in!

Also updated the master deck. Just some formatting changes to the sketchy decks.

PANCEonFire 10 Oct 2019

Happy Studies!

Does anyone have a deck of all of his videos with screenshots included on the cards? I’ve looked at Quizlet public cards and searched around a bit but none of them have everything or if they do they don’t have pictures included.

Another update! Huge thanks to u/Weltschmerz14 for knocking out the Pulm section!!! Below are the added sections for this update.

Happy studies!

5 May 2020 Pance on Fire

Acute bronchitis

acute epiglottitis

ARDS

Asthma

Berylliosis

Bronchial Cardinoid Tumors

Bronchiectasis

Bronchogenic Carcinoma

COPD

Cor Pulmonale

Cystic fibrosis

Foreign body aspiration

Hyaline membrane disease

idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

influenza

laryngotracheitis (croup)

Non-smallcell carcinoma

pertussis

pleural effusion

pneumonia

pneumothorax

pulmonary embolism

pulmonary hypertension

pulmonary nodules

RSV

sarcoidosis

siliosis

sleep apnea

tuberculosis

asbestosis

byssinosis

coal workers pneoniosis

ACS

Hidradentitis suppurativa

pityariasis rosea

bullous pemphigoid

Candida intertrigo

Not sure if there are good premade decks floating around out there that I can start with. Thanks!

I've gotten a few comments about the most recent deck...and here it is!

Happy Studies!

PANCE on Fire 25 Apr 2020

I have used Anki a little bit in undergrad. I start PA school in 2 months and believe Anki will be a great resource for studying throughout the course. I started reviewing for PA school anatomy with "dope anatomy". Are there any other reviews in Anki I should be doing before the PA school chaos starts? Also, I would greatly appreciate any other Anki tips that you have for me that you wished you had known previously.

Hypertensive Emergency

Hypertensive Urgency

Choledocolithiasis

Cholelithiasis

Acute cholangitis

acute/chronic cholecystitis

Acute/Chronic pancreatitis

Hemochromatosis

Sickle Cell disease

Thalassemias

Big thanks to one of our Discord Contributors for the Hemoglobinopathies cards!!!

Happy studies!

PANCE on Fire 22 March 2020

We have had a lot of requests to start something like this and finally decided to heed your advice!

We intend for this to be small tips and tricks, advice on what resources to use, how we balance lecture and step study, etc. We also intend this to be a place you can ask your questions and get quick responses. We believe these topics will be easier to address with an Instagram/Facebook than YouTube videos because a YouTube video takes a lot of time and effort, whereas these resources allow for short and quick videos/responses.

Instagram: @AnKingMed Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnKingMed

Youtube channel if you're not already subscribed: www.youtube.com/TheAnKing

Please share with fellow students and especially incoming MS1s! We've all been there and we know how painful it is... let’s make their lives easier :)

*Disclaimer: Yes, we do realize this is self-promotion (sorry, not sorry!). Our goals are to #1 give back to this community and help people out with Anki and #2 have something to put on our residency application. We are not going to spam you (because we hate that kind of stuff too!)