Lesson 2 - What is the AnKing Step Deck?
The AnKing Step Deck is the most comprehensive gold standard flashcard resource for USMLE Step 1, 2 & 3. Carefully maintained, updated daily, and trusted by over 100,000 medical students.
It was built on multiple decks like Zanki, Dorian, and others, all of which were the best decks available at the time (5+ years ago). The AnKing Step Deck wiki also discusses the original decks and what resources were used to make them.
But what makes the AnKing step deck special?
Over the past 3 years, the AnKing Step deck has received close to 900,000 updates, which is around 800+ updates per day. It is reviewed and updated daily by a global team of 40+ maintainers (medical students and residents), so you can focus on studying while we take care of the rest.
The deck is fully tagged for Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3 UWorld, with brand-new NBME, CMS, Pixorize, Physeo, Sketchy, Dirty Medicine, Ninja Nerd, Divine Intervention, and other high-yield resource tags being added and improved regularly.
It also includes hundreds of custom hand-made illustrations, thousands of new images, and continuous fixes to errors, capitalization, tagging, formatting, and content accuracy.
The AnKing Step Deck stays up to date with the latest medical education resources and guideline changes worldwide, so you never have to worry about outdated content.
Just click sync, and we do the work for you.
But wait, what about Anki?
The next topic will delve into what Anki is and why it is the best tool for the job.
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For more information about the history of the deck, see this video on the evolution of the deck (optional):
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