Start with what nobody has made a deck for
For the big standardised exams, community decks exist and are excellent. Use them. What has no deck is your own faculty's teaching: the pathology handout, the consultant's slides, the local guidelines your written paper will actually test. That material is where generating from source beats searching for a set that doesn't exist.
What converts well into cards
- Definitions and criteria. Diagnostic criteria, staging systems, classification schemes — the most card-shaped material in the whole curriculum.
- Pharmacology. Class, mechanism, main indication, the adverse effect that gets examined. Four small cards, not one large one.
- Microbiology pairings. Organism to presentation to first-line treatment. Pure paired-associate recall, which is what spaced repetition is best at.
- Numbers. Reference ranges, cut-offs, doses, timings. Easy to generate, easy to test, painful to look up mid-exam.
What doesn't
Anatomy diagrams lose their meaning when flattened into text — the spatial relationship is the fact. Write those yourself, or use a tool built for image occlusion. Anything requiring an argument or a differential built from a presentation is a case exercise, not a card. And a card whose answer is a list of eight features is a card you will fail forever; split it or drop it.
A workable rhythm
One lecture's worth of material generated per day — which is exactly what the free tier's 1 daily generation gives you — pruned to the thirty or forty cards that will actually be examined, and reviewed the same evening. Over a module that accumulates into a deck built from your own course, without a single weekend spent making cards.
The phone is the point
Medical timetables don't leave clean study blocks; they leave ten-minute gaps between a ward round and a tutorial. Photograph the slide, generate the deck on the bus, review the due cards in the queue for coffee. Reviewing works with no signal at all — only generating new cards needs a connection.
Use Anki too
This is not a replacement for Anki and pretending otherwise would waste your time. Anki's scheduler is better and its shared decks are irreplaceable for board-style exams. The honest split is on the comparison page: Anki is the better reviewing tool, this is the faster card-making tool, and medicine is the one subject with enough volume to justify both.