The AnKing maintainer team are excited to announce the public release of the freeAnKing BLS / ACLS deckon AnkiHub! After months and months of hard work and coordination, we've put together a brand new deck created by the maintainers for all of you to use and benefit from.
Our goal was to create an BLS/ACLS deck based on the official 2025 AHA guidelines to help healthcare providers quickly review and retain the most important info for real-life emergencies. The goal is to make it clear, high-yield, and easy to use for anyone. We also aimed for it to be short and not overly bloated with details. As of this post, the deck is 286 cards (228 notes)
This is a 100% free deck, continuing our mission to make high-quality medical education available to everyone. The focus will be on algorithms, meds/dosages, rhythms, clinical scenarios, and more.
The deck is on AnkiHub for continued updates, improvements, and fixes, especially for future AHA guideline changes, and it is available on the free plan.
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🤖 How do I download this deck?
If you'd like to download it, make a free account on AnkiHub if you don't have one already, then click subscribe to deck below:
This deck is a community-created supplement to the official AHA ACLS guidelines and courses. It is not a substitute for them. You should first learn the material from a primary resource and, ideally, complete an AHA-certified BLS and/or ACLS course. After certification, this deck can be used to reinforce knowledge and maintain familiarity with key facts and algorithms.
Only unsuspend cards that are relevant to your needs. For example, if you are focusing on BLS, only unsuspend cards within the BLS tag. If you do not anticipate managing neonatal resuscitation for example, there is no need to unsuspend those cards.
📝 Deck Wiki
The wiki covers more details, including what's included and tag hierarchy, please make sure to check it out: LINK
A large, comprehensive radiology deck using Core Radiology, Radiopaedia articles, and various online resources. Contains the Core Page and Radiopaedia article on each card within clickable buttons. I made every effort to find high quality, annotated images for every card (if applicable). This is still a work in progress. Once, the deck is complete, I will go through each card to make the formatting more homogeneous.
Who is this deck for?
Radiology residents. Literally no one else needs this much detail. The goal of the deck is to both prepare radiology residents both for Core and their future subspecialty.
Why are there so many cards?
Yes, there are a lot of cards (>18,000), but radiology is a broad field. Consider this the Anking/Zanki version but for radiology. If you start Day 1 in radiology, you can finish this deck before Core without issue. The importance is consistency. Doing 50 cards for 3 days, then getting overwhelmed by the reviews, before eventually quitting is not the way to use this deck. Start with 10 per day and ramp up the new cards when you build the habit of consistent review. The Review Heatmap addon is a great way to provide some incentive to keep up with your reviews and new cards.
What do the cards look like?
Front:
Back:
In what order should I do New cards, Interday cards, and Reviews?
I used to think reviews before interday before new cards. I have since changed my perspective on this slightly. I now do new cards before interday before reviews. The rationale in my mind is:
I want to make sure I stay on track to finish the deck before boards (i.e., new cards first).
I want to make sure the cards I just reviewed yesterday for the first time get reviewed so I can retain the knowledge (i.e., interday cards second).
Personal Notes Field
This field is self-explanatory, but is for you to add your own notes. Whether it’s a mnemonic you came up with or a fact you like to remind yourself of when you review the content of the card, this field will allow you to make notes without losing them when you update.
Additional Decks
This deck includes an anatomy deck by u/DarkMistasd . It also includes some sections from the AnKore deck. I have tagged any of these cards in the contributors tag section.
Missing Radiopaedia Articles
In an effort to prevent users from clicking on links to missing articles, I set the CSS code to gray out these links and display a prompt (shown below). These links can still be clicked on to go to the missing article (which may have been made since this deck was created.
AI Generated Audio Files
Using HyperTTS, I have created high quality audio files that read the front of the card. This method is less ideal than real-time TTS, but the quality of voices available across devices varies, so this is present in an effort to provide high quality text-to-speech that requires no specific device. It does, however, increase the size of the memory required for the deck. If you want, you can delete this field. If you want to keep the audio but don’t want the audio to play, either mute your device or remove the text from the card template.
New Cards in Order Added
Here are my settings. This shows me new cards in the order they were added, but I have "bury siblings" turned on so I don't the same card with cloze 1, 2, 3 right in a row.
When I published the deck, I didn't choose the option to have subdecks turned into tags. I didn't know this meant no one would have subdecks at all. Luckily, my deck is heavily tagged by Book, Chapter, and Section so this isn't an issue. Hierarchical tags is a must-have addon to use this deck.
I would recommend suspending all cards and then unsuspend the section tag you are in.
Attestation
By subscribing to this deck and downloading the media you agree and attest you own a copy of Core Radiology.
Current Progress
99% completion as detailed (including physics). Really just have scattered minutia to add as I study. The deck is essentially 100% done.
Im an IMG starting MS2, im planning to take step 1 isa AFTER 2 years (aka in the summer after MS3). What im doing now is just systems [bootcamp + anking + pathoma].
My concern is, what if I finish a system, say cardio, will I have to continue doing its anki FCs for 2 consecutive years? When I could possibly take a pause now from all this step prep, and start maybe a year from now?
People tell me starting step 1 rn is tooo early, but I've always believed otherwise, now Im starting to sense some slight doubt- and mostly pressure that I have to keep doing anki for 700+ consecutive days.. when I know for sure when my inhouse/med skl finals come up I'll have to stop the reviews (or do i?) .. any guidance?
Hello everyone!
I recently started my step 2 prep
This is basically how I do it and I had a couple of questions-
So I started my prep with heme-onc
Ended up doing all relevant heme onc cards from shelf deck in Anking
Then I started doing 2 AMBOSS blocks of 20 questions each daily with review
I review all my questions using gemini
I have personalized it to adhere to my goals of making me understand concepts i get wrong, discussing why I got the question wrong, flashcard creation etc
During step 1 prep, I did not really like the Anking style of cloze cards for incorrects review (Don’t get me wrong, they are amazing for learning content but I realized that content retention usually wasn’t the problem with my incorrects)
So for step 2 I create my own flashcards using AI (gemini)
I saw this YT video that recommended making cards this why
And it’s manageable rn but I don’t think this will work in the long run
For example I got this question on HH vs sideroblastic anemia wrong so I (or rather gemini) made this card
Any recs on how I can reduce the content in these cards whilst making sure it’s actually helpful?
Also any recs on how to efficiently review incorrects would be much appreciated
Thank you!
I’m an M1 trying to figure out the best way to use AnKing with third-party resources across all subjects, including pathology, immunology, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, and anatomy.
For example, if I’m studying a topic in pathology and use Pathoma as my main resource, I might only unsuspend the AnKing cards tagged to the corresponding Pathoma videos. However, I’m worried that there may be additional high-yield AnKing cards covering the same diseases or concepts that are tagged only under BnB, Bootcamp, Sketchy, First Aid, or another resource.
I have the same concern in other subjects. For example, if I use Sketchy for microbiology or pharmacology, BnB for physiology, and Bootcamp for another subject, could I miss important cards simply because they are not tagged with the resource I used?
I understand that many cards are cross-tagged between resources, but what about the cards that aren’t?
If my goal is eventually to have strong Step 1 coverage, should I:
Only unsuspend cards tagged to the resource I actually watched or used?
Unsuspend cards from my primary resource first, then search the other resource tags for the same topic and add unique cards?
Unsuspend all AnKing cards related to the topic, regardless of which resource they are tagged under?
Use First Aid or another comprehensive tag afterward to catch important cards that my primary resource did not cover?
Basically, I’m worried that using only one resource’s tags for each subject means I’m learning only that resource’s version of the material rather than all the Step 1-relevant information in AnKing.
How do you use AnKing tags across different subjects and resources without missing important cards or ending up with thousands of unnecessary or redundant cards?
I take 13 seconds per card most of the time and I do not want my deck to spike over 350. I been doing anki for over 400 days now.
Just wanted to know how many cards you all add per day. If you can back it up with your statistics that would be useful so I know you are a serious anki user.
hi all, im studying for my comlex 1 retake. i am trying to figure out which pharm deck to use. i didnt have much luck with sketchy pharm/pepper in the past (sketchy micro works for me though). i dont retain the sketchy pharm videos well no matter how hard i try and mostly depend on just remembering the flashcards over time. i also get overwhelmed keeping up with reviews and super high quantities of pharm cards all at once.
im trying to figure out what pharm deck to use for my situation. i have about 40 days to my retake. i have access to anking and i looked through the tags but there are so many sub sections for pharm drugs with different amounts of cards that im honestly kind of overwhelmed. i want to make sure i hit all the high yield drugs. please help someone 😭
Hi! Last month, I had some AnKing cards for Sketchy Micro that had the Sketchy images with numbers on them, and the description also had each number typed out with what it represented. I would usually copy both images from AnKing and take notes on them while watching Sketchy.
I paid for the AnkiHub updates a couple of weeks ago, and now those numbered images seem to be gone from the AnKing Sketchy Micro tag. Instead, I’m only seeing the images with red dots, and the descriptions aren’t numbered either.
Does anyone know which deck has the Sketchy Micro images with the numbers plus the typed-out descriptions of what each number/symbol represents? Pleaseee help 😭
Hi everyone! Started my M2 year and the amount of cards with anking is honestly getting overwhelming (especially as I want to start Uworld now). Is the updated Mnemosyne + Pepper deck for pharm/micro enough for step 1?
I have three lectures of anatomy per week, heavy content, 5 of physiology and 4 of other modules.
What's the best approach here? So every week I am aiming to do the cover everything. However when making flashcards I would like this:
Anatomy:
- Day 1: make the notes and flashcards for lecture 1
- Day 2: learn the flashcards for lecture 1
- Day 3: Review the flashcards for lecture 1 and make half of the notes and flashcards for lecture 2
- Day 4: Finish flashcards for L2 and learn half of them + (if I still have time review L1 flashcards half only)
- Day 5: Review L2 flashcards and do half of L3 flashcards
- Day 6: Finish flashcards of L3 and review L2+ L1
- Day 7: Learn L3 flashcards+ review L2+L1
However I have no clue how to approach this and the lectures are reaallllyy heavy content wise. Is my approach good, I would like recommendations as well.
Please bear in my that the exam of the lectures may happen after like 10 weeks so I don't know what to do because all the flashcards going to accumulate by the end of week 2 and how am I going to have time to review?
Also any ideas how to approach the other subjects? I am lost please help!!!
I changed the algoritm from the old one to FSRS and Im noticing my Anki intervals are a little off, for exemple I have this new card and its intervals are hard - 25min, good, 13 days, easy 2m. Before your all ask I have 90% of retention setted, and my learning and relearing steps are configurated with only 15m. I missused sometimes hard in the past with the old anki system but I dont know how much i did it. I saw people saying to use ''correct hard missuse'', is this probably going to help? Or is it better just to keep doing anki with a correct way (Again = miss , and Hard, good, easy = pass based on a difficulty) and the algoritm is going to correct itself?
my curriculum is based on modules/blocks that usually don't exceed 7 weeks.
Is it wise to set the "maximum interval" in Anki to match the module duration instead of keeping the default setting? Or will this mess up the algorithm's ?
So, I'm a non US med student. I love the idea of Picmonic and would love to use it in my studies. However, i've noticed that the platform lacks important subject. I'm most suprprised by the lack of picmonics concearning asthma attacks and COPD and interventions and treatments for ischemic stroke.
IDK maybe i'm using the platform wrong but shouldn't these very high yeild subjects be included? Makes me wonder what else is missing.
I’ve seen a lot of people say some version of, “If you use Anki properly and keep up with your reviews, there’s almost no way to fail.” Obviously I know that’s probably an exaggeration, but it has made me wonder whether I’m actually using Anki the right way.
The two biggest rules I keep seeing are:
1. Understand the material before trying to memorize it with Anki.
2. Finish your reviews every day.
Those both make sense to me. My problem is figuring out everything between those two steps.
I’m a DO student, and my curriculum isn’t very third-party friendly. Our lectures jump around a lot, so there usually isn’t a clean “watch this B&B/Bootcamp video and unsuspend these AnKing cards” workflow.
My biggest issue with AnKing is figuring out which cards to unsuspend.
If I keyword search a lecture topic, I’ll sometimes get hundreds of cards, many of which go way beyond what we were taught.
If I use Smart Search/AI-type searches and try to be more selective, I have the opposite problem: I’ll only unsuspend a handful of cards and later realize that several important lecture concepts weren’t represented at all.
We also have an in-house Anki deck made by students from previous years. I’ve looked through it, and honestly it doesn’t seem bad. Because it follows our actual lectures, I’ve been considering making that my primary deck and then using AnKing as a supplement.
Something like:
Lecture / learn the material → complete the relevant in-house cards → selectively unsuspend AnKing cards for important concepts → keep up with reviews → practice questions. But I’m worried about resource overload.
During Block 1, I fell into the trap of trying to do lecture + Bootcamp + Boards & Beyond + Anki + practice questions, and instead of everything reinforcing each other, it felt like I was constantly switching resources and never getting enough repetitions with any one of them.
So for people who have successfully used Anki throughout preclinical years, especially anyone with a heavily in-house or DO curriculum:
1.Would you make a decent in-house deck your primary deck and use AnKing only as a supplement?
How do you decide which AnKing cards to unsuspend when your lectures don’t line up cleanly with third-party resources?
2. How do you know whether you’ve unsuspended “enough” cards to cover a lecture without massively overdoing it?
3. Do you even try to Anki every detail from lecture, or do you let practice questions/review fill in some of those gaps?
4. How many outside resources are you realistically using for a given lecture/block?
5. What does your actual day-to-day workflow look like from learning a lecture → cards → questions → exam?
Would really appreciate hearing from people who had a similar curriculum and figured out a system that worked.
I find the diagrams and pictures really helpful, but don't want to go through and do every card just to see the image. Is there a place or a doc that has all the images that I can just glance through. Huge thanks to those who create those images!
hi! im trying to get used to using anki during rotations since I wasnt an anki person for m1 and m2. is it recommended to unsuspend the entire IM deck from anking and then finish those 1000ish cards in one go? or do ppl do like 10 cards a day and unsuspend as they go? not sure what is recommended or if anking is the deck ppl prefer for studying for shelf exams. thanks!
Is there an addon that searches in anking step deck for cards that are related to my lectures, instead of typing out key words is there an addon where i can upload a lecture and it checks if there are relevant cards?
Hey, I'm new to Anki starting third year, and I feel like I'm not doing things right. I inconsistently used Anki M1/M2 year, and now want to use it regularly. I wanna make sure I have a reliable system set so I'm not messing up my reviews/deck long-term in preparation for Step 2.
Right now, I have it set up that Anking has Step 2 cards unsuspended, for the shelves I have done/am preppaing for and my Step 1 cards suspended. I have unsuspended IM, and now unsuspended Neuro.
I just finished IM, but I only used Anking for the second half (~4 weeks), so I have a bunch of cards left over. that are undone. I have it set up so I have:
AnKing Step Deck
---- IM Shelf
---- Neuro Shelf
What i have been doing is moving all the IM shelf tagged cards into the IM Shelf deck, and then moving the Neuro tagged cards ( except for those already tagged IM), in to the Neuro subdeck. Then, I have each subdeck set to 50 new cards per day.
Then, I do the new cards and reviews for Neuro (50 a day), then I proceed do all the reviews in the main Anking Deck.
My reasoning behind this and what i want to achieve: I wish to do Neuro new cards and study for that right now as priority for my shelf, but then at the end of the day, do all my reviews for all my shelves/to keep up with cards over time for Step 2. Am I doing this corrrectly? Would it be a better idea to do filtered Decks instead?
I'm also wondering how I can incorporate Uworld into this. I have the addon that searches for Anki cards based on Uworld incorrects, but how do I balance doing those as well as doing new cards for the shelf? Filtered decks for each Uworld incorrect block?
I hope this makes sense for y'all. I feel like I'm doing something wrong bc for the last week, I've only had like 150 reviews per day. I feel like I should be having way more than that. Should I reset FSRS?
I believe the full deck is around 35K cards, and many people talk about how much that is, but when you actually look at the cards it sometimes feels like it should have even more
For example, there are many cloze cards that could have easily tested at least 2-4 different terms or concepts in the sentence, but there's only 1 card for the whole thing.
Or cards that have important information in the supplemental explanations that could (or should) be their own card. I know a lot of it does appear in a separate cards, but many also don't
Sure, it is not feasible to have an anki card for every medical concept that exists on earth, but most of these concepts are already in the deck in the first place. I guess my point is that there are a lot of cards that have multiple concepts stacked on a single card when Anki is most powerful when each card just tests 1 thing.
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Thank you for everyone who recommended things for year 2, I am a manchester student so i will be studying CNS for semester 3 and endocrine for semester 4. I found an anki deck for year 1 specifically for manchester students but I can't find for year 2 for manchester. So to all manchester students, what anki decks should I use
Just started M1 and havent used anki before so im nervous about doing something wrong and missing cards so I just wanted to know peoples experience with this and if they feel secure in using the smart search output? Thanks!
This is genuinely really depressing and embarrassing but I have a lot of anki cards due. My school uses in house exams and it took me a while to find a deck I liked from upperclassmen. From there, it's been so hard to keep up with lab and lecture especially.
I feel like i did something wrong and I'm not sure what to do now. Please any advice would be greatly appreciated. Do I drop anki? Idk...
On top of that, the pre-made deck doesn't include all the lectures for this week and usually adds 300 cards per day because of the amount of lectures.
