I also downloaded all the PDF lecture notes which aren't in great format but was helpful for recall later in the period. TBH I did benefit significantly from that but I don't regret that I didn't do more Anki. I did not use Anki either except towards the end of my dedicated for a few isolated groups of diseases (glycogen storage diseases, commonly tested biochemistry-related diseases). I did not take any notes to speak of, although I did copy the B&B ID flowcharts and a couple of similar things on paper to commit to memory, which worked well. I also took a couple of days to sample how much I could watch in a day and made a realistic plan of how long it would take me to watch all the videos and kept track of how far along I was. However, I'd say my average productivity was better - easier to maintain - when watching videos than when reading or doing Uworld quizzes. I'm not the world's most productive person to be honest often that meant 5 hours of productiveness/video watching in an '8 hour' day. I kept track of my productive hours during each day and ended up taking about an hour per hour of video. I watched every single video except for biostats (my strongest subject), mostly on 1.5-1.7x speed but I ended up rewinding every now and then. I had a dedicated period of about 10 weeks and all in all spent 4 weeks on B&B in the first half of dedicated. I used Boards and Beyond almost entirely instead of FA. Grade-wise I've generally been an average student in my class until Step 1. I'm a European IMG and I had a 10 week dedicated period.

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