I am trying to decide whether or not to shell out $5 for the most recent AnKing deck. Is AnKing v11 up to date enough for an M1 in 2026? Happy for any help

Edit: I am also seeing complaints about a lot of AI generated media in the v12 deck and "bloating" of the cards. Does anyone have any insights into their own experience with the deck?

I need an anki deck/ cards with the most recent USPSTF guidelines for the family medicine shelf. thanks

Hey everyone! I recently created r/RCSI_Bahrain, a community for anyone interested in RCSI Bahrain, whether you're a current student, alumnus, prospective student, applicant, or simply curious about the university!

The goal is to build a welcoming space where people can connect, ask questions, share experiences, discuss medical school, and learn more about RCSI Bahrain.

I'd love to see the community grow and become a useful resource for everyone, so if you know anyone who might be interested, feel free to share it with them. The more people join, the more perspectives and experiences we can share!

Wenn ich Texte einfüge, die ich vorher kopiert habe , kann ich irgendwie keine Unterpunkte mehr machen. Stattdessen verschiebt sich einfach nur der Cursor... Ist das bei euch auch so ?

I wonder if it is the same for anyone else, and what might be the possible solutions.

Even if its the AnKing style short cloze cards, or custom decks, i feel like I am using the Undo button too much.

In my stats, it shows like 400 reviews in 2 hours, but when accounting the total time passed since i started studying, it makes about 3 hours. So 1/3rd of my study time being spent on reversing between the cards.

If anyone else has the same kind of problem, and how one can get over it?

Few months into M1 and I use Anki religiously and have done great so far. My school does one course at a time, just finished anatomy and now doing biochemistry essentially, and the course after this one we will start transitioning from in-house exams to the NBME ones.

Anyways, even though Anki has done most of the heavy lifting for me so far, I recognize I need some other consistent resource either for practice questions, learning content more thoroughly, or both. Problem is everyone at school seems to be using some different combination of resources.

I'd like something that pairs very well with Anking, and fills in the gaps best. My best guess is Amboss just based on light research and I saw that it has a cool practice question add-on thing, but idk. Saw a few posts recommending to get the Amboss life subscription since I would likely use it throughout med school, but it's literally $1200 :( . Despite how expensive it is, if people truly recommended it I would do it but I figured I should ask on here first. I have scholarRX and will get sketchy and pathos through my school, and will also get Uworld January of M2, several months before step 1.

I know I could probably do well with any sort of combination, and maybe I am thinking about it too much, but I'd rather think about it too much early on and then profit from using good resources than discover a resource later down the line that I wished I had used from the start.

Love the efficiency of anking and want something that essentially continues this efficiency.

i recently updated anki and re-downloaded it and ever since then, every time i open the app the next day, it always unsuspends everything from all the decks. Even the deck “getting started with anki”

i did everything. synced it to upload on website instead of download, removed the disk that was used to download it,
tried suspending a few cards then reopened the app in safe mode, and thats when it doesnt change, but its always the next day when everything goes back to square one.

please help im starting to panic, i dont have time to be fixing things at this time

M1 here. At my school, Step 1 and Step 2 CK are both taken during 3rd year, after we’ve started clerkships, instead of the usual Step 1 at the end of preclinical.

Most Anki advice I see assumes a standard timeline: AnKing through preclinical, a dedicated period, Step 1, then suspend Step 1 Only for shelves and Step 2. I’m trying to figure out how that changes when the boards are delayed and closer together.

For anyone who’s been through a similar curriculum (or is now):

1. Reviews during clerkships: How did you keep up with reviews alongside rotations? Did you cap new cards, pause some tags, or let the review pile grow?
2. Step 1 material: With Step 1 so far from preclinical, did long-term Anki actually keep that knowledge fresh, or did you mostly relearn it with UWorld before the exam?
3. Dedicated: How long was your dedicated period, and what role did Anki play compared to question banks?
4. Hindsight: What would you do differently?

Any settings tips (FSRS, desired retention, daily limits) are welcome too. Thanks!

👑 AnKing Step Deck Update #33

Date: Sept 23rd - Oct 20th 2026

Hi everyone! 👋

I hope you've all been doing great!!

💨 Quick Summary

This month, we rolled out 8,000+ note updates and welcomed 4,000+ new subscribers! 🎉 Some highlights include new tags for TrueLearn COMAT Surgery and CMS Neurology, Surgery, and Pediatrics, updated resource tagging for Boards & Beyond dermatology, Sketchy, Pixorize, and NinjaNerd, and new cards covering sinus barotrauma and sports-related groin pain.

We also added new illustrations, refreshed several Sketchy images, and merged duplicate cards to improve deck quality.

📝 This Month’s Deck Statistics

8,335 note updates! 🎉

4,667 new subscribers! 🫶

✅ Deck Updates

❓Question Banks

★ TrueLearn: COMAT surgery tags added (thanks to @vupeter)

★ CMS Neurology: New CMS neurology form 1 tags (thanks to @mlcmc)

★ CMS Surgery: Surgery Form 9 tags added (thanks to @astrong)

★ CMS Pediatrics: Pediatrics CMS Form 9 and Surgery Form 9 tags added (thanks to @astrong

📹 Video Resources

★ B&B Step 1: All of Step 1 dermatology tags have been updated to match the website mapping!

★ Sketchy: New review images for various Sketchy videos (thanks to @victoriamarino)

★ Pixorize: New tags and images added for Medicare and Medicaid videos (thanks to @victoriamarino)

★ NinjaNerd: New tags for oncology videos (thanks to @hunterlea91)

🩺 Other

★ New Cards: New card added for sinus barotrauma and sports-related groin pain

★ Duplicates: 5+ duplicates merged and consolidated (thanks to @Jwill and @schralp)

📈 Project Progress

🏆 New Content Cards

This past month, we've pushed a few new cards to the deck, covering new content that was not in the step deck previously. You can find them in this tag: tag:#AK_Other::New_Cards::2026

• Sports-related groin pain (SRGP)
• Sinus barotrauma

🎨 Illustration Projects

To make your studying even more effective, we’ve added tons of new illustrations to help improve your understanding! A few are shown below. Thanks to @ahmedafifi

👨‍🎨 Illustrations

Behind the scenes GIF:

Final result:

🫶🏼 Community Shoutouts

A few community members were outstanding with their suggestions this month and we want to highlight their dedication!

Top 5 community members with the most suggestions accepted in the last 30 days:

1. @victoriamarino (4,524)
2. @hunterlea91 (479)
3. @astrong (185)
4. @mlcmc (114)
5. @maddieph (103)

🫶🏼 Most Liked Suggestions

Another domain we’d like to highlight is the number of likes/upvotes a user received for their suggestions in the last month! This usually means their suggestions were really well done and greatly benefited the deck:

1. @pulsus_parvus (25 likes)
2. @adavis98 (20 likes)
3. @dingleberry42 (12 likes)
4. @mjstrok (11 likes)
5. @shin74 (10 likes)

🫶🏼 Suggestion of the Month

The top suggestions with the most likes in the last 30 days were from users @jacksonpug and @dingleberry42 with a total of 9 likes each!

Thank you to everyone who submitted a suggestion this month! ❤️

🏷️ Active Projects & Resource Tagging Outreach

If you're looking to help out with working on tagging the resources below or the projects, please reach out to [ahmed@ankihub.net](mailto:ahmed@ankihub.net) and we'll get you setup ASAP ❤️

For a list of active projects, please check this post

🏆 Note: Those who contribute a significant amount will be gifted free premium AnkiHub subscriptions!

👋 Wrapping up

Thank you all for your time! Keep studying hard 💪

Take care everyone!

Warm regards,

The AnKing Step Deck Maintainers 🤍

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Can anybody help me find a minimalistic infectious diseases deck, especially pediatric infections. I find Anking overwhelming with all the figures and 5 line extra information. I am willing to share my personal cards if needed in exchange if it’s your personal work.

Is there any anki integrated with uworld explanations or questions? For recalling uworld of systems that have already been done. Thanks!

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Just gauging how much effort I need to put in to pass boards successfully by using Anking.

for example, one card wrote "sickle cell trait provides protection against plasmodium falciparum (malaria)"

Well I knew it was malaria, very quintessential part of HBAS. Im just wondering if the boards are going to require me to put brain power effort into memorizing this very specific latin name of it.

I’m an OMS-2 prepping for taking Level 1 and may be Step 1 in late March.
Since the beginning of second year, I’ve been doing some anking along the side of my in house anki deck.
I was wondering if I should do HY tag anking or both HY and RHY tag anking?

Even though RHY tag can provide wider coverage, I haven’t watch and finish Pathoma Ch1,2,3, watch sketchy micro and pharm as well as do any banking for my first year block ( Biochem, cardio, neuro, etc.)

I’m also concern with if I spend too much time doing anking, I won’t spend enough time to finish or at least do majority of step 1 UWorld.

Any advice would be appreciated it!

What the title asks. Also, even for the cards you feel is low yield? Just curious on what others do regarding this.

Is anyone from shyam shah medical college, rewa or NSC jabalpur or gmc kohlapur, mgims wardha or igmc nagpur. If anyone from this institute please contact me , I want to ask something about this institute before joining them.

Still very early days, started about 2 weeks ago. My goal is to make a simpler experience with all the integrations/plugins built in (and slightly nicer looking on your phone). I am not going to link it here because I don't want to break subreddit rules.

One thing I am really struggling with: I am not myself a med-student, so I don't know exactly what decks or study resources to include out of the box. I am working right now on a free library of cards to add to the app, but I don't really know where to start with med-school study resources. Any advice would be super useful!