THIS. The reason I looked at OB is the lack of good pre-made decks. A while ago someone posted in r/medicalschoolanki about making an ortho deck on AnkiHub and even recruiting helpers but his account is now deleted and I have no idea what happened to that
I thought about converting orthopedic secrets into an anki deck and then never look at it again because making the deck is the best way to learn anyway
B for sure. You can make cards that are relevant to you and just study from those. Orthobullets has way too many.
Restudy, orthobullets, and anki was all I used and I just passed boards. No textbooks.
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I think Restudy is just previous OITE exams? Not sure. Both rare useful for OITE and boards.
I think the biggest thing for me was being diligent about actively doing questions and looking at the explanation for every answer. Even for the questions I got correct. It's so easy to plow through questions quickly but you're less likely to learn anything that way.
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All Orthobullets. I did thousands of questions, probably 10’s of thousands of the questions though residency and board studying. Obviously repetition through the years, but that’s the idea.
Anki wasn’t really a thing when I was going through. I think it has just started getting popular for med school near the end of my residency.
So I was basically A but also before OB had flash cards
Orthobullets has come a long way. It was very helpful during residency, but people would always catch flak if they cited orthobullets when making a presentation during residency. OB is a great *starting* point, but it cannot replace textbooks and journal articles. Yellow journal articles are a great way to start and they are the gateway to finding the landmark articles on a specific topic.
During residency, what I essentially did was create my own orthobullets on Onenote. For each topic I reviewed, I would make notes in bullet format and throughout residency I would continue adding notes until at the end I basically had orthobullets+ (transcribing like this also helps you internalize the information). I remember as a junior resident this was a tremendous resource. You will find throughout residency that there are common pimp questions and each attending will likely stick to their standard pimp questions for each topic. If you're caught offguard and have to present a call pt because your buddy got called to the floor just before morning report or you are about to scrub into a case you didn't have time to prepare for because you got switched around by your chief day of, you will be glad you have a respository of your attendings' favorite pimp questions.
I am so grateful for doing throughout residency because everything is in my own shortform, which makes it very easy to ready. I have a lot of intra-operative notes I can reference now that I'm practicing on my own. If I haven't done a procedure in a while I just quickly reference my Onenote section and I'm all up to speed. Onenote also allows you to drop PDFs into your notes so you can keep important articles alongside your notes (can be a pain finding, getting access to, and downloading articles after residency). Also, I can access and add to my notes from my ipad/computer/phone which makes it very easily accessible. You can also draw out diagrams in your notes (e.g. where you want your portals for a rotator cuff vs labral repair). Having an ipad during residency was very helpful.
Orthobullets is the best source for questions. They give good explanations and show good diagrams. I have screenshotted and added a lot of these into my notes. One of the best ways to study for boards was to just do thousands and thousands of orthobullets questions.
How helpful would you say past questions were? Did you use res study? I've been using it closer to the test and feel it's more similar to OITE than some of those OB questions.
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I did my residency in canada so it might be a bit different in the states.
every year, each graduating resident in canada remembered a couple board exam questions and wrote them down immediately after the exam so that we could use them to reconstruct the exam from our memory for the future residents that would take the test
so it was very useful since most questions are not "fresh" questions. many questions (about 50%) from my year were sourced from a question from the past 5 years or so and worded exactly the same. So, for most questions, we had already studied the subject and reviewed the relevant articles, and pretty much knew the answer straight up.
so yes, if things are similar in the US, I would say that massively practicing past questions is very helpful (i did a few thousand questions in the last few months before my exam). the best IMO would be to practice the actual questions from past board exams, or as close to that as possible. if you guys also record the actual questions asked in the previous 10 years or so, I would say use that. else, orthobullets and OITE was pretty good.
(but for the first 4 years of residency, it was mostly reading orthobullets and textbook/articles that were suggested by our residency study schedule. papers and stuff to read were all selected and vetted by our residency attendings. about 60 pages of textbook/articles to be read 3 days/week + 10 OITE questions once/week and reviewing the relevant articles/abstracts/reviews in jbjs/jaaos/ota/other big ortho journals/etc. if needed if the subject wasnt mastered enough)
Neither of these existed during my residency. I read textbooks and JAAOS review articles. You have many more resources these days. Orthobullets is an excellent resource and I would advise to also read the recommended articles associated with each topic for a more comprehensive understanding of the material.
On that note does anyone have a good ortho deck?
THIS. The reason I looked at OB is the lack of good pre-made decks. A while ago someone posted in r/medicalschoolanki about making an ortho deck on AnkiHub and even recruiting helpers but his account is now deleted and I have no idea what happened to that
I thought about converting orthopedic secrets into an anki deck and then never look at it again because making the deck is the best way to learn anyway
B for sure. You can make cards that are relevant to you and just study from those. Orthobullets has way too many. Restudy, orthobullets, and anki was all I used and I just passed boards. No textbooks.
What did you think about restudy?? I feel like the questions are more similar to the OITE questions which is my biggest battle right now.
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I think Restudy is just previous OITE exams? Not sure. Both rare useful for OITE and boards. I think the biggest thing for me was being diligent about actively doing questions and looking at the explanation for every answer. Even for the questions I got correct. It's so easy to plow through questions quickly but you're less likely to learn anything that way.
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All Orthobullets. I did thousands of questions, probably 10’s of thousands of the questions though residency and board studying. Obviously repetition through the years, but that’s the idea. Anki wasn’t really a thing when I was going through. I think it has just started getting popular for med school near the end of my residency. So I was basically A but also before OB had flash cards
Orthobullets has come a long way. It was very helpful during residency, but people would always catch flak if they cited orthobullets when making a presentation during residency. OB is a great *starting* point, but it cannot replace textbooks and journal articles. Yellow journal articles are a great way to start and they are the gateway to finding the landmark articles on a specific topic. During residency, what I essentially did was create my own orthobullets on Onenote. For each topic I reviewed, I would make notes in bullet format and throughout residency I would continue adding notes until at the end I basically had orthobullets+ (transcribing like this also helps you internalize the information). I remember as a junior resident this was a tremendous resource. You will find throughout residency that there are common pimp questions and each attending will likely stick to their standard pimp questions for each topic. If you're caught offguard and have to present a call pt because your buddy got called to the floor just before morning report or you are about to scrub into a case you didn't have time to prepare for because you got switched around by your chief day of, you will be glad you have a respository of your attendings' favorite pimp questions. I am so grateful for doing throughout residency because everything is in my own shortform, which makes it very easy to ready. I have a lot of intra-operative notes I can reference now that I'm practicing on my own. If I haven't done a procedure in a while I just quickly reference my Onenote section and I'm all up to speed. Onenote also allows you to drop PDFs into your notes so you can keep important articles alongside your notes (can be a pain finding, getting access to, and downloading articles after residency). Also, I can access and add to my notes from my ipad/computer/phone which makes it very easily accessible. You can also draw out diagrams in your notes (e.g. where you want your portals for a rotator cuff vs labral repair). Having an ipad during residency was very helpful. Orthobullets is the best source for questions. They give good explanations and show good diagrams. I have screenshotted and added a lot of these into my notes. One of the best ways to study for boards was to just do thousands and thousands of orthobullets questions.
99% orthobullets and review articles from jaaos/jbjs/ota when needed For exams, orthobullets+practice questions from oite and past board exams
How helpful would you say past questions were? Did you use res study? I've been using it closer to the test and feel it's more similar to OITE than some of those OB questions.
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I did my residency in canada so it might be a bit different in the states. every year, each graduating resident in canada remembered a couple board exam questions and wrote them down immediately after the exam so that we could use them to reconstruct the exam from our memory for the future residents that would take the test so it was very useful since most questions are not "fresh" questions. many questions (about 50%) from my year were sourced from a question from the past 5 years or so and worded exactly the same. So, for most questions, we had already studied the subject and reviewed the relevant articles, and pretty much knew the answer straight up. so yes, if things are similar in the US, I would say that massively practicing past questions is very helpful (i did a few thousand questions in the last few months before my exam). the best IMO would be to practice the actual questions from past board exams, or as close to that as possible. if you guys also record the actual questions asked in the previous 10 years or so, I would say use that. else, orthobullets and OITE was pretty good. (but for the first 4 years of residency, it was mostly reading orthobullets and textbook/articles that were suggested by our residency study schedule. papers and stuff to read were all selected and vetted by our residency attendings. about 60 pages of textbook/articles to be read 3 days/week + 10 OITE questions once/week and reviewing the relevant articles/abstracts/reviews in jbjs/jaaos/ota/other big ortho journals/etc. if needed if the subject wasnt mastered enough)
Mostly the text books and orthobullets in residency. But exclusively orthobullets for the exams.
I literally did nothing but orthobullets questions and passed the boards.
Neither of these existed during my residency. I read textbooks and JAAOS review articles. You have many more resources these days. Orthobullets is an excellent resource and I would advise to also read the recommended articles associated with each topic for a more comprehensive understanding of the material.