How I Use Anki To Study in Dental School | Make Better Flash Cards Tutorial

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  • đŸŠ·đŸ§  Anki is an incredibly powerful tool! During my first year of dental school, I have experimented with multiple strategies to try and succeed. Anki is the very best of them. In this video, I talk about why Anki will help you get better grades. I also give you a step by step tutorial of how I make my flashcards. Im at least 85% sure this video alone will get you better grades!😉
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  • @ikrampicaso920
    @ikrampicaso920 Pƙed 3 lety +14

    Dude thank you so much, im a first year med student and this technique with anki is fool proof as long as you are consistent with making and studying cards everyday, you are most definitely going to ace the exams haha

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      This is FACTS! Im currently studying thousands of them for my second to last exam of my current semester. Thanks for your comment and best of luck with your studies!

  • @lindita7745
    @lindita7745 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Super informative video, just what I needed!! Currently studying for the DAT and it's about time that I learn how to use Anki. Thank you!!

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 2 lety

      Awesome!! Best of luck with your studies and if you need more help with getting started with Anki, check out this video! czcams.com/video/tufDp32VaTw/video.html You’ve got this!!

  • @XTheSpartanX7
    @XTheSpartanX7 Pƙed rokem

    I start PA school soon so this will come in clutch. Thanks.

  • @anisabellopezdecastroboluf7190

    OMG!! this video is amazing. Thank you so much for the time you invested doing it. This is gonna be my new study method ✌Good luck on your journey through dental school.

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Thank you so much for your comment!! Im glad the video was able to help you!! Best of luck with anki and if there is ever anything you'd like to see another tutorial on, let me know!

    • @anisabellopezdecastroboluf7190
      @anisabellopezdecastroboluf7190 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Stephen P. Ray Thank you so much!

  • @diananguyen1050
    @diananguyen1050 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Thank you for this helpful video! I am about to start studying for the DAT and wanted to learn how to use Anki to help!

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Awesome!! My biggest regret looking back at the DAT was not using Anki! I really wish I had known about it back then. Definitely make cards like I do in this video for the bio section and then use image occlusion for organic. I can make a video about image occlusion if it would help you!

    • @diananguyen1050
      @diananguyen1050 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@stephenraydentist Yes, that would be great! Thank you for the tip I will keep that in mind when studying!

  • @adrianstrickland6648
    @adrianstrickland6648 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    This is amazing thank you!

  • @alisinarahimi4587
    @alisinarahimi4587 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Thank you so much for this video! :) I was thinking of ways to study for biochemistry and i think ANKI will help a lot, especially with the image occlusion feature.

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +3

      You’re very welcome and thank you for your comment! Anki is great for biochemistry! The way I paired the two was to screenshot the pathways we were learning, like glycolysis for example, and using image occlusion to cover each enzyme and each molecule at every step. So I would have a card that showed glucose then a image occlusion box then glucose 6 phosphate. That would be asking me which enzyme stood between them which would be glucokinase/hexokinase.

    • @alisinarahimi4587
      @alisinarahimi4587 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@stephenraydentist This will help so much! You’ve gained a new sub :))

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@alisinarahimi4587 thank you so much!! I’m happy to have you here! I’ll talk a lot about Anki in this upcoming semester!

  • @kianadel4328
    @kianadel4328 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    great video!! love your desk setup! what kind of monitor/mount do you use?

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 2 lety

      Thank you so much for the compliment!! Check out the video I made about my desk setup! I hope to make an update sometime this year, but this answers your questions! czcams.com/video/Nsb2_mLjsCc/video.html

  • @scottcoryell1440
    @scottcoryell1440 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    I live by image occlusion. Its a life saver

  • @scottcoryell1440
    @scottcoryell1440 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Getting ready for D1 this fall and learning different study techniques. Thank a lot!

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety

      Best of luck!! Plenty of new experiences coming for you so soon!

  • @noodleconsumer
    @noodleconsumer Pƙed 3 lety +4

    Hey stephen great video! I have heard of but never used Anki until recently after watching your videos. So far I've been enjoying them and finding them pretty effective. I was wondering, do you stick with the anki format where you study each deck once a day and more familiar cards start showing up less and less or do you do a custom deck type of studying where you just review cards multiple times whenever? (Ik its spaced out like that on purpose for spaced repetition, but was curious how you were using it to study given that you may have large quantity of cards/less time.

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      I tend to just study one test at a time. So I dump all my cards for one test into the same deck and then I chip away at that deck every day! That means the cards are completely jumbled up but I end up getting to all of them! Thanks for the comment and I’m glad you’re liking Anki!!

  • @michaelsw0rd
    @michaelsw0rd Pƙed 3 lety +4

    Hi Stephen! just got into dental school and and using this now in my masters program! Its SOOOO powerful. still learning how to use it. i saw in another video that people in med school download huge deck sets for all topics. do you do this for dental school? or do you find making the cards from the lecture the best way to do it? Thank!

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      I make my cards for every lecture because our lecture topics are very specific and the test questions we get are very specific to the lectures! It really just depends on your school and how they do things!

  • @angelmorales6012
    @angelmorales6012 Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci

    Arent there qbanks in dental school?

  • @ananyasam8657
    @ananyasam8657 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    How to attend to dental school ? And how to prepare ourselves for an examination into school?

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      czcams.com/video/ryTSvRoXwHY/video.html check out this video I talk all about going to dental school and how to make it! I also address the topic of preparing for the DAT!

  • @kylieamor711
    @kylieamor711 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    how do you schedule your spaced repetition for the different subjects? do you study all of the lessons for each subjects in one day everyday?

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Yes!! So because my exams are all integrated and we have all of our courses together on the same exams, I make one deck for each test and the cards are all randomly mixed together! So I just study them every day which means I get a mixture of the different courses each day!

  • @feliciader559
    @feliciader559 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Thanks for this video! i've been trying to find more effective ways to study and this video convinced me to try anki 😊 i noticed that your Powerpoints don't have any notes on them. When you listen to lecture, do you not take any notes?

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +4

      Thank you for your comment, and I’m so glad I could help!! I study a bit differently than others. Instead of taking time to write notes while reviewing powerpoints, I opt to just immediately make Anki cards for each bullet point as I show in this video. What the accomplishes for me is that it gives me really thorough flash cards to study. I find that taking notes while completing school online (pandemic) is kind of unnecessary for me. It makes more sense for me to spend my time making good cards and then reviewing them than writing notes. If a teacher says something important in a video lecture which does happen, I’ll make note of that, but this is my general workflow! Anki is amazing and it’s changed the way I do all of this for the better! I will continue to make videos and discuss my progress with Anki! Next semester I’m taking gross anatomy which will be wild and Anki should be a big help so stay tuned! Good luck with everything!

    • @feliciader559
      @feliciader559 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@stephenraydentist thanks for the thorough response! that is interesting. I subscribed to stay tuned!

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@feliciader559 thank you so much!! That means the world to me! Trying to build subscribers is tough but I think it will happen over time!

    • @k.roberts5863
      @k.roberts5863 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@stephenraydentist this thorough response just made me sub. Love the thoughtfulness in your response and you shared some great information!

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety

      @@k.roberts5863 thank you my friend!! I hope to always be open and honest with y’all! I just can’t express enough how excited and blessed I am that people actually want to continue watching my content! It pumps me up and makes me to want to continue working on this channel!

  • @MultiYounker
    @MultiYounker Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Are you sharing any of these decks on AnkiWeb or elsewhere?

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 3 lety

      Thanks for the comment! I haven’t been because all my decks include material that is distributed by my school and is essentially protected against sharing online. Unfortunately that is the situation! Crazy though because I spend ages on them!

  • @Nikol-tq2wo8qv7d
    @Nikol-tq2wo8qv7d Pƙed 2 lety

    do you always make different versions of the same sentence from the presentation? I mean, you're writing a sentence and you're writing a question about the same thing, or you're just showing us different options for making ankies.

  • @Danny-yf1zy
    @Danny-yf1zy Pƙed rokem

    Excuse me I am a non English speaker who is using RemNote asa dental student too . I wonder when u make anki .Before,during , or after class(online or in classroom)?

  • @hyunjinlee2493
    @hyunjinlee2493 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Do you finish the whole 2000 cards in a single day? It takes so long for me to finish even 100 cards cause I’m keep repeating the cards..

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Absolutely not!! Realistically I'll study 400-500 cards a day and like 700-800 cards on the few days before a big exam because I'm spending all day studying!

  • @pb4224
    @pb4224 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    What does frozen fields do, I don't get it?

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 2 lety

      Thanks for the question! Check out this video! czcams.com/video/Y2GQFezSU0s/video.html

  • @laughter95
    @laughter95 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    How long does it take you to create a deck for an exam? How many cards are typical for an exam?
    Nice, been using Anki for years but haven't heard of Frozen Fields. Will def save me from repetitively copy/pasting the slide into the extra field.

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 2 lety

      I usually make one deck for one exam and it just takes as long as the amount of lectures we have for that exam! Typically, we’ll have multiple lectures for a single class over around a three week period so I’ll be making cards during that entire time. The number of cards depends completely on the class. It is usually around 50-150 per lecture. I have a bunch of Anki videos that are newer than this one! Check out this playlist! czcams.com/play/PLfQ7n_Tfs4mvzYYrke9zk7vlSr5txovwC.html

  • @dentalmcqs7210
    @dentalmcqs7210 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    indeed anki is very important , but out of curiosity did you thought about sharing your anki cards ? so we all can get benefits ? or can we work together to make a large card collections that can benefits thousands and thousands of Dental students worldwide ? ( for free of course :)

    • @stephenraydentist
      @stephenraydentist  Pƙed 2 lety

      Thanks for the comment!! Unfortunately, I do not distribute my Anki cards. My cards are filled with material and screenshots pulled directly from my dental school’s distributed PowerPoints and this material is not mine to distribute. It is owned by the school!