Integrated spaced repetition – This is one of the best features of ANKI by FAR.I’ve written a whole blog post about my favourite ANKI add-ons for medical students, which you can check out here. There are many features that make ANKI the perfect flashcard app for learning the endless amounts of facts we need to know in medical school. In my medical school, I would guess that around 50% of students use ANKI actively, myself included. Of course, these are all my personal opinions based on my experiences of using the apps and I definitely recommend you try them all out for yourself, but hopefully this post can help you to decide on which ones you might prefer! ANKIĪNKI is probably the most popular app used by medical students, especially in the US. Almost all the other medics I know use flashcards as one of their main study tools, so finding the perfect app is vital! There are three main apps that I see commonly being used and having used all three myself, I thought it would be useful to write a post comparing the pros and cons of each app. Although some students prefer one over the other, it is the learning style of the student that makes the difference.There is a huge debate between medical students about which flashcard app is the best to use. Overall, both classic flashcard and Quizlet methods are effective ways for students to study and retain information. “Quizlet is great for me because I can’t even read my own handwriting,” Duffy said. Sophomore Claire Duffy praises Quizlet, and always prefers it over flashcards. “I haven’t heard of enough studies to prove that that happens all the time.” “They do say, for some people, that the physical action of taking notes helps you to remember it better,” Doyle said. “There is a connection between the tactile pieces of it, handwriting, and remembering.”ĭoyle agrees, but is unsure of the legitimacy of this theory. “I do think hands down that there is a connection between seeing, physically writing it, and memorizing as opposed to typing,” Rutigliano said. You can actually say ‘Oh, I remember writing that’,” Rutigliano said. “Sometimes when we write something and we are seeing it at the same time, that forms a memory. Rutigliano thinks that Quizlet can be less interactive and have less of a connection to the brain than physically writing your own flashcards. “You one hundred percent can’t trust that they’re right. “A con to Quizlet is that it’s unreliable because you can’t trust others’ answers,” Sainsbury said. Sophomore Chloe Sainsbury believes that Quizlet is not always the most accurate source regarding facts because any person has the ability to make public sets. ‘I think it is worth checking out the validity of them” You have to test Quizlet’s validity and credibility,” Doyle said. “You have to be what’s called a good curator of information. “You can share them with other people and you can look at ones that other people have created to help you.”Īlthough sharing information with peers seems like a pro, it can come with consequences. “You create them, and then you don’t ever lose them because they are always online andaccess them from anywhere,” Doyle said. Instructional Technology teacher Julie Doyle agrees that Quizlet has its benefits. “I do think that Quizlet is a great tool though, especially since you can have it play back to you so you are using your auditory learning sense, and that is very helpful to some students too.” “I see value in memorizing terms I think Quizlet is a start for understanding and remembering,” Rutigliano said. “It really depends on the learner,”Īlthough some students seem to work better with old fashioned approaches, Rutigliano recognizes Quizlet as a tool to help understand basic concepts.
“I see a lot of values in Quizlet, but there will always be those students who work better with a paper and pen,” Rutigliano said. Special Education Liaison Felicia Rutigliano believes that both Quizlet, a site where students can create or use previously generated flashcard sets, and traditional methods such as paper flashcards and note taking are beneficial to any student. Students and teachers may be benefiting from the convenience of online flashcard apps like Quizlet, but some say this new technology has cons.
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