Card Submission Checklist

👋 Getting Started

• Is the Deck set to Malleus Clinical Medicine?
• Is the Card Type set to the MalleusCM - Cloze format?

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📒 Card Content

• Is the information this card is testing relevant to clinical medicine?
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  Malleus Clinical Medicine is focused on clinical medicine. Although this deck may well be useful for pre-clinical medical students, all submissions must be primarily of clinical relevance.

  Detailed cards on the different enzymes and pathway of the Krebs cycle, for example, may well be high yield for preclinical students, but un(fortunately) would not be relevant for this deck and would likely be rejected. Content is therefore targeted at clinical years (so years 3/4 for postgraduate courses and years 4-5/6 for undergraduate courses). If you are unsure, please get in touch.

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  That being said, when making cards from a dedicated resource (e.g. Talley & O’Connor’s Clinical Examination), it is acceptable, upon request, to make cards that may well go beyond the scope of the project by tagging with a ‘Beyond_medical_school’ yield tag. Please contact us for clarity on this.
• Have you checked to see if this topic has been covered already?
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  Please ensure to look for existing content by searching through a variety of modalities:

  • Raw key-word search in the Anki browser and scanning existing cards
  • Topic search within the Malleus Anki Helper Add-on ‘search’ feature
  • Checking the Malleus HQ ‘Card Creations’ Project Board for the completion status of a topic (you will need to have a @malleus.org.au email to do this - please register for one for free on our website homepage)
• Does the card engage conceptual understanding rather than rote learning?
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  Create flashcards that prioritise high-yield clinical concepts over memorisation. Focus on promoting understanding of principles, integrate multiple related concepts, and use clinical scenarios where possible. For complex topics, include references or links to additional resources. Cards should be designed to test conceptual understanding rather than isolated facts, with appropriate cueing for lower-yield information.

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  Make use of the Extras Field to:

  • Concisely explain more complex ideas
  • Add extra lower-yield information that does not meet the criteria for separate card creation
  • Provide links to additional resources (e.g. YouTube videos)
• Does this card promote active recall?
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  The minimum information principle suggests that learning with active recall is more effective when information is presented in the smallest, most essential units, avoiding unnecessary complexity or detail that could overload memory.

  The minimum cue principle involves creating prompts that provide the smallest amount of information necessary to trigger the correct response. Ideally, this creates the greatest amount of transferability to clinical practice and examination. This technique helps in reinforcing the most relevant and high-yield information.

• Does this card use precise terminology?
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  Economy of words is very important in creating high quality cards, and keeping cards brief while maintaining comprehension can be difficult. Precise terminology can be useful to create succinct cards, however overuse can also interrupt comprehension. Striking a balance can be difficult, and requires a bit of practice.

  Medicine is full of acronyms, abbreviations, and plenty of jargon. Exposure to correct terminology can prepare students for the clinical environment.

  Examples of precise terminology

  Imprecise ❌	Precise ✅
  ipsilateral to the lesion	ipsilesional
  altered taste sensation	dysgeusia
  central visual field abnormality	central scotoma

🧱 Card Structure

• Does this card have appropriate use of cloze deletions?
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  In some cases, cloze cards, or fill-in-the-blanks cards, may be present or thought to be the best approach for a card's design.

  Here is an example of a cloze card as it would be presented in the editor dialogue:

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  {{c1::Anti-CCP::Anti-CCP/RF}} has {{c2::greater specificity}} for rheumatoid arthritis than {{c1::rheumatoid factor::anti-CCP/RF}}

  This will be presented as two cards, the first of which is:

  Front

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  [Anti-CCP/RF] has greater specificity for rheumatoid arthritis than [anti-CCP/RF]

  Back

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  Anti-CCP has greater specificity for rheumatoid arthritis than rheumatoid factor

  The second is:

  Front

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  Anti-CCP has […] for rheumatoid arthritis than rheumatoid factor

  Back

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  Anti-CCP has greater specificity for rheumatoid arthritis than rheumatoid factor
• Has a question-answer format been considered over in-line cloze deletion where appropriate?
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  Question and Answer Format

  Cards should preferably be written in a question and answer format, with few exceptions. Cards not in this format may be rejected. In-line cloze (i.e. fill in the blank questions) is to be used sparingly and only under specific circumstances.

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  Why only Question & Answer cards?

  A significant issue with Anki is that cards can be written in such a way that correct answers can be “recalled” not based on a true understand, but based on the specific contours of layout or word-usage, or mindless pattern-recognition. Hence, a card can be easily recalled during review, but that same information is unretrievable on the wards, in clinic, or during an exam. This is largely avoided with thoughtfully written cards.

  Making multiple variations of similar cards is ideal, as it encourages careful reading and consideration each time, preventing rote memorisation and promoting deeper understanding.

  Question and Answer Cards

  Example card:

  Front

  Back

  Generally, an inverse of a card should also be included:

  Front

  Back

• If in-line cloze deletion has been deemed appropriate, is there enough context to understand the missing word or phrase required?
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  While it is optimal to apply the minimum information and cue principles, the other side of this is where too little information is provided to achieve the correct phrase.

  It is often helpful to Preview a card to ensure that it makes sense and is easily answered.

  Making multiple variations of similar cards encourages careful reading and consideration each time, preventing rote memorisation and promoting deeper understanding.

🖌️ Card Formatting

• Does the card use approved abbreviations?
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  Acronyms and abbreviations should be used sparingly. In most cases, unabbreviated names should be used, and acronyms may be added in brackets. Exceptions are listed below.

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  Refer to the Accepted Abbrevations table for a guide as to what abbreviations can be used without their full titles listed in the text field of cards.

  

  Permitted abbreviations and acronyms

  • All SI units may be abbreviated
  • Terms that are rarely called by their unabbreviated names, e.g.
    • anti-CCP antibodies
    • IgG, IgA etc.
    • Beta-hCG
  • All chemical elements may be abbreviated
    • All ions should have their appropriate charge in superscript

  More Accepted Abbreviations and Acronyms

  Based on ACSQHC Recommendations for terminology, abbreviations and symbols used in medicines documentation.

• Does the card make appropriate use of drug names, dosages, and timings?
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  For all commonly used drugs and medications, as a general rule, you may include route of administration if it is clinically relevant, but DO NOT include doses, brand names nor timings in cloze answer fields. Route of administration can be abbreviated according to nationally accepted medical abbreviations guide or if listed in our own Accepted Abbrevaations table.

  • e.g. write ‘valaciclovir PO’ not ‘valaciclovir PO 1 g mane’

  However, there are certain drugs which are frequently charted as an intern/JMO where adding a dose would be relevant and helpful. The broad areas where it may be appropriate to add a dose includes (but is not limited to):

  • commonly prescribed analgesic regimens (i.e. paracetamol 500 mg, ibuprofen 400 mg)
  • commonly prescribed anti-emetics (i.e. ondansetron 4-8 mg PRN)
  • VTE prophylaxis anticoagulant regimens
  • commonly prescribed antihyperglycaemics (i.e. metformin 500 mg BD)
  • commonly prescribed antihypertensives
  • emergency drugs (i.e. aspirin 300 mg in ACS, adrenaline 0.5 mg dosing in anaphylaxis)

  If you are unsure, submit as you feel most appropriate, and the Malleus Maintainers will review your card and make a collective judgement on how to best deal with it prior to approval.

  Capitalisation

  Drug names should only be capitalised if they start a sentence. Brand name drugs e.g. Panadol, Xanax etc. should always be capitalised. Where multiple drug regimens are listed, each regimen should be considered as a new sentence (and hence the first word should be capitalised).

  Formatting of drug regimens

  The words AND, PLUS, OR, EITHER, or BOTH should be used to make the combination of different drugs clear. These words should be in capital letters, underlined and italicised.

  The formatting of drug regimens should make the card as legible as possible. See below for the formatting of drug regimens as card answers:

  Type of card answer	Acceptable formatting	Not acceptable formatting
  Multiple regimens, each with one drug	[Drug X] OR [Drug Y] OR [Drug Z]	[Drug X] OR [Drug Y] OR [Drug Z]
  	[Drug X] OR [Drug Y] OR [Drug Z]
  One regimen, with multiple drugs	[Drug X] AND [drug Y] AND [drug Z]	[Drug X] AND [drug Y] AND [drug Z]
  	[Drug X] AND [Drug Y] AND [Drug Z]

  Complex regimens

  In complex regimens, ad hoc formatting may be required to unsure clarity. When making cards on complex regimens, it is generally recommended that each line represents a different part of a given regimen i.e. a three drug regimen should typically have three lines, such as in the below card. A numbered list may also be helpful to ensure clarity of the number of agents used. For example:

  

• Is there appropriate use of bolding, underlining, and italics?
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  Consistent usage of bolding and underlining can improve readability of cards and reduces misreading of questions.

  General Formatting Template

  Generally, use bold for the topic/disease and use underline for most important parts of a given question. See below for more specific usage.

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  Bolding

  Bolding should be used to draw attention to key parts of the question. Generally, these key parts are:

  • Topic words or key words
  • Augmenting words, especially when cards of near-identical layout exist

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  Underlining

  Underlining should be used sparingly. It can be used:

  • To indicate the specific thing that the question is asking. See examples below.
  • Augmenting words, that are already bolded.

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  Italics

  Italics is ineffective for emphasis. It should generally only be used for naming of genus and species e.g. Staphylococcus aureus.

• Is punctuation consistent?
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  Capitalisation

  Please maintain consistent capitalisation. Capitals are only for names and the start of sentences.

  In the extra field, please capitalise the first letter of each sentence in the extra section.

  Period Formatting

  Do not use full stops/periods for single sentences or bullet points, except for paragraphs with more than one sentence.

  This is an example of correct formatting:

  

• Is the Extra field properly formatted?
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  Whenever there are TWO or more sentences or paragraphs in the extra section, please use an unordered list (using the bullet point button or ctrl+[ shortcut on Windows).

  CORRECT formatting

  

  INCORRECT formatting

  

• Have other considerations of minor formatting been made?
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  Cloze deletions

  For suggestions relating to an increase or decrease (e.g. ‘diabetes {{c1::increases}} glucose’) the preference would be for a cloze hint of ‘increases/decreases’, in that order, like so: ‘diabetes {{c1::increases::increases/decreases}} glucose}}’. This is unless the potential answers are obvious.

  Disease Name Formatting

  When listing the full name of the disease and the abbreviation in parenthesis, bold the actual disease name and unbold the (abbreviation) as shown below.

  

  Card with multiple answers

  Generally, if a card/question has multiple answers, the cloze should have a number indicating the number of answers to the question.

  

  Exceptions to this can be made on an ad hoc basis, including where,

  • Cards where there is a small number of answers, or the card is too easy if the number of answers is provided

  

  

  • Cards where it is important to remember the number of answers e.g. in the following example, where remembering the number of grades is important

  

  

  • In some cases it may be more practical to use multiple clozes, each with the same cloze number (i.e. do not use different clozes for multiple answers to the same question)

  

  

  

  One-By-One Card Guidelines

  The general rules for one-by-one are as follows:

  • The cards need to be able to be recalled in order - this means that there needs to be a mnemonic or a sequence of treatment
  • The 5 P’s of pheochromocytoma can NOT be one-by-one because they all start with P and it will be impossible to do “ordered recall”
  • One by one notes should not be done for cards that have 2-3 clozes, unless they are mnemonics

  Mnemonic Formatting

  Mnemonics should be formatted like this, and the card should be make into a ‘one-by-one’ card, by typing any text into the ‘One-by-one’ textbox while editing the card.

  

  Table formatting

  Tables can be added via copy and paste, or made manually. Please use this addon to add or edit tables: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/295889520

  How to make tables with the addon

  1. Download the addon: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/295889520
  2. When editing or adding a card, with the cursor in the correct field, press this icon

     

  3. Press the table icon in the popup window to add or edit a table
  4. Close the window when you have finished editing
  5. Save the changes to the card, or add the card

  When adding multiple images to tables, strongly consider resizing the images inside, such that they are the same height or width, as this will affect the distribution of the table.

  Please follow any addition of tables with the addition of the following tag:

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  #Malleus_CM::#Card_Feature::Table

  Using AI to make your tables

  Please avoid the use of AI when making tables unless absolutely necessary, as it can format slightly differently from the above method, unless parameters are tinkered, which is suboptimal.

  Algorithms

  Algorithms/flowcharts are sometimes used to explain decision making protocols or processes. Algorithms may be useful for multiple cards and can be copied from existing cards when creating new content.

  

  Algorithms Table Method

  1. Download this addon https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/805891399 12
  2. Find algorithm to replace. Ctrl+Shift+X to get html of the algorithm → copy it
  3. Search the html → flag all these notes (you’ll need this later to bulk suggest the changes)
     1. If you are shrinking images, best to shrink all of them so the html is the same. You can use this add-on: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1633333766 1
  4. Create new table
     1. Click the T5 button in the editor
     2. Insert a table.
        1. You will want enough rows and columns to split cells for when the algorithm branches
        2. For example, if the algorithm splits into three sections you would need three columns, one for each split.
     3. Type contents in. Do NOT duplicate the table word for word (copyright issues)
     4. Go to table properties and set to these:

        ![Class one is important. ]

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        Class one is important.

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  5. Highlight the entire table → right click → cell → cell properties
  
      Change Horizontal alight to “center” and Vertical Align to “middle”
  

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      Change border style to hidden
  

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  • FORMAT:
    • note table width can be made ~60-80% based on algorithm contents
    • Left align things as needed
    • Bold things as needed

  1. Change all algorithm images to tables
     1. Copy text of image html. Also copy (or have handy) the text of the table html
     2. Notes → Find and Replace
     3. Replace all images with table
  2. !IMPORTANT! - tag all of these cards with the name of relevant algorithm (either management or investigation).
  3. Submit to AnkiHub as bulk suggestion (sync right before doing this)
  4. Example:

  image211586×1414 130 KB

  

  Algorithm table before hiding borders

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  Algorithm table after hiding borders

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  Algorithm Builder (Website)

  • You can visit https://app.diagrams.net and create amazing algorithms. You just have to get familiar with the different tools, but it takes less than 5 min to create any type of algorithm.
  • One example was about tetanus prophylaxis based on the AMBOSS table:

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  image251818×362 67.7 KB

  

  • Basically, all you need once you’re on the website is the “General” section
  • You can choose shapes, text, etc. and the arrows are created by dragging the sites of the shape

  💡 After you have created your desired algorithm it is best to take a *screenshot* of the final result. You can save it as .png as well, however, for me the quality was kind of bad as .png

🌐 Referencing

• Does the reference come from the accepted list?
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  All submissions require the following minimum requirements:

  • Provide at least one acceptable source in the source field with a URL.
  • Provide a last updated and date accessed statement in the source field.

  An example of accepted source:

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  Myocardial Infarction - AMBOSS - Last Updated August 20, 2025. Accessed September 18, 2025 https://next.amboss.com/us/article/wS0hbf.

  Or:

  Myocardial Infarction - AMBOSS - Last Updated August 20, 2025. Accessed September 18, 2025

  Create hyperlinks either by:

  • Using this addon: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/318752047
  • Click the <> at the top of the box, then enter <a>href="URL">Title TEXT</a> - RESOURCE - Last Updated. Accessed [Date].

  

  If a source is from a book or other published resource and does not have a URL, please provide the DOI link. If a DOI is not available please cite with the following format (no access statement is required for a published work):

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  Chapter 13 - Talley, O’Connor (2017) Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis, Elsevier.

  Multiple sources

  • Where multiple sources are used, one source should be listed as the primary/principle source
  • Other sources should be clearly identified as secondary by preceding the citation with ‘Also see: ‘ or similar
  • If multiple sources are used, these should be formatted as an unordered list

  Acceptable sources (see ‘Recommended Resources’ for more detail)

  • AMBOSS* with specific article links (please provide the article URL)
  • PassMedicine* questions (See also: tagging PassMedicine)
  • StatPearls
  • Therapeutic Guidelines (See also: eTG Complete Tags)
    • Please cite TG pages as in the following example:
      • Hepatitis B [published 2020 Dec; amended 2021 Mar]. In: Therapeutic Guidelines. Melbourne: Therapeutic Guidelines Limited; accessed 2025 Jan. Link to page.
  • Selected specialised resources:
    • Dermnet.NZ (Dermatology)
    • LITFL (ICU/critical care)
    • Radiopaedia (Radiological findings)
  • Selected textbooks (See also: Key Textbook Tags)
    • Oxford Handbooks
    • Llewellyn-Jones Fundamental of Obstetrics
    • Talley & O’Connor’s Clinical Examination 8th ed. (Clinical features/examination findings)
    • Ellis and Calne's Lecture Notes in General Surgery 14th ed.
    • First Aid 2024 (EXCEPT FOR MANAGEMENT)
  • Society guidelines
    • RANZCOG, RACGP; website links must be provided

  *AMBOSS and PassMed cards related to investigation/management of diseases must be independently checked against local Australian guidelines guidelines.

  Unacceptable sources

  • First Aid 2023 or older
  • Pathoma
  • Boards & Beyond
  • Sketchy
  • Random articles
  • Wikipedia
  • Textbooks (unless otherwise approved)
  • Osmosis
  • School lectures
  • UpToDate (requires verification from local guidelines)
• Does the reference have an access date?
• Have you considered using the AMA (Vancouver) style?
• Have you chosen an approved, appropriately referenced image?
  • The image is added to the extra or text and nowhere else.
  • The image is cited properly with correct formatting.
  • The image is in JPEG/JPG format.
  • The image is resized to a reasonable size.
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  Images found online are subject to various copyrights and licenses. To avoid breaking copyright law please follow the following guidelines. If you are unsure, please contact us.

  Permitted Licenses

  Please only use an image with an accepted creative commons license or that is in the public domain.

  Formatting Image Credits

  1. Follow this format:

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  Author name (hyperlinked to website), Creative Commons/Public Domain (hyperlink to CC site), via website/journal name

  

  Credits must be italicised and be font size 10pt

  Option 1: Semi-Automatic with wrapper meta add-on (Recommended)

  Use the Wrapper meta add-on (Code: 396502676). It will add a new set of buttons. Highlight the sentence, then click the “quote” button and it will add the styling.

  

  Option 2: Manually with extended editor for field add-on

  Use the Extended editor for field add-on, manually change to font size 10 and italics.

  

  Option 3: Manually with HTML editor

  Open the HTML editor by clicking < > above the field. Copy the code into the field and fill in the details.

  <img src="..." style="max-height: 70vh;"><br>
  	<!-- Insert caption below-->
  		[Optional caption]<br>
  <span style="font-size: 10pt;">
  	Image credit: 
  		<a href="Source link">
  			Photo by [Author Name]
  		</a>, 
  	<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...">
  		CC [Licence]</a>, 
  	via [Source]
  </span>

  Guidelines Images

  • Therapeutic Guidelines images
    • Cards that refer to Therapeutic Guidelines as a source should include the relevant subsection of the page in the ‘eTG Complete’ field
    • Only images from Therapeutic Guidelines should be placed in this field. Other images should be placed in the ‘Additional Resources’ field
    • Therapeutic Guidelines have provided generous permission to use content so long as screenshots of TG content are restricted to the content necessary to directly and safely answer the question
    • As a rule of thumb, information from Therapeutic Guidelines should not exceed the amount seen in this card:

      

  • If a guideline images is included, a citation to the guideline must be included somewhere on the card. If it is the same source as used in the ‘Source’ field, then it does not need to accompany the image directly. Otherwise a citation must be placed with the image.
  • All images submitted to Ankihub are automatically converted to WebP format. The largest size for a WebP image is 16,383 x 16,383 pixels. If the image is larger than this, it will need to be split up into multiple screenshots, or the image will not be visible. In these cases, the images should be formatted in the Anki field such that the width is the same for all images. This can be achieved with add-ons such as https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1593969147 or manually in Anki.

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  Resources providing free-to-use images:

  CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

  Gray’s Anatomy

  OpenStax

  Radiopaedia

  Retina Gallery

  WikiMedia Commons

  Smart Servier Medical Art

  StatPearls

  DermNet

  Resources that have provided us permission to reproduce content:

  Therapeutic Guidelines

  Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH)

🏷️Tagging

• Is the card tagged appropriately by Subject and Rotation?
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  For cards using specific resources (e.g. eTG) there are further tagging requirements. See Specific Resources below.

  All cards must, at minimum, be tagged with at least one Subject Tag, one Rotation Tag, and a single Yield Tag. A card may fit multiple subject and rotation tags; it is fine to add these. Often this is done for you (e.g. Acute Otitis Media is tagged by the rotation tags: Cardiology & Paediatrics).

  Pharmacology, OSCEs, Clinical Guidelines, eTG guidelines and other categories have their own Additional Special Tags, which can be found as a separate tab in the Tags Database.

  We have tried to make the tagging process as straightforward as possible, and have recorded a video outlining the process, as well as a written explanation underneath.

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  Note that the video demonstrates creating a card from an eTG guideline. Note that our main Subject Tags database does not have all of our diseases linked to eTG, and therefore you may need to manually search for both the eTG guideline (if using as resource) as well as the associated disease page for the condition (and likely copy over the 10_Management terminal tag(s) from that page).

  How to Tag

  There are three ways to go about doing this:

  1) Malleus Anki Helper Method (RECOMMENDED)

  1. Install the Malleus Anki Helper Add-on linked here: Malleus Anki Helper Addon - AnkiWeb, as shown in the video below.

  1. Watch the video series below for details on how to use the plugin.

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  Note that some pages may be missing (especially when searching the eTG database) - if this is the case, please contact us and we will look at adding the page manually so it shows up in the add-on’s search window.

  2) Search Method

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  Watch the video below for a demonstration; otherwise we have a written guide underneath. Please note this while this method still works, in most cases we would encourage users to use the first method listed above when creating cards, by installing and using the Malleus Anki Helper Add-on due its ease of use. It also integrates directly within Anki saving the need to use a web browser.

  1. Simply click the search button at the very top right of the website and search for the disease you’re after (e.g. Acute Otitis Media)

     

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     Please note that when searching on Notion you can identify the relevant origin of the pages by the different icons.

     Most pages arise from the Subject Tags database, signified by the white stethoscope icon in the search (ie. Acute Otitis Media). If you are searching for a topic, rather than a specific disease (ie. Antenatal Care), you may come across a slightly different topic page, signified by the white info icon.

     The main difference between subject “disease” and “topic” pages is topic pages do not have terminal sub-pages (ie. 01_Epidemiology) like the disease pages, and usually (but not always) sit under *General tags. They are used to create cards on broad topics that do not fit neatly within individual single diseases (ie. Antenatal Care, Approach to the Seriously Unwell Child).

     Note that other pages from other databases (ie. eTG Complete Tags, Pharmacology) will also appear here… they each have their respective icon as well.

     As a general rule of thumb, if there is no icon on the page, it’s not a page you should be copying tags from (it is likely a parent page)!

  2. Open the page and find the particular subtag that best describes the card you are adding (e.g. aetiology).
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     Note the “multiple parents” means this disease page appears in multiple different subject areas (i.e. Cardiology and Paediatrics). Other details are available on this page for your reference, including status and last updated date.

     

  3. Click the copy to clipboard icon that appears when hovering over the tag
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     Please note that this will also copy over whatever other cards are relevant (e.g. the resources by rotation cardiology tag). This is to make it easier for you to add cards with all the correct tags. Other tags that might be included are Question Banks tags for questions relevant to the topic.

     

  3) Database Lookup Method

  1. Open the Tags Database and go to the subject tags section

     

  2. Unfold the topics until you find the disease you are looking for by clicking the triangular arrow head next to each topic
  3. Click on the title of the disease (or topic) you are after to open it in the middle
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     Note that most pages arise from the Subject Tags database, signified by the white stethoscope icon in the search (i.e. Acute Otitis Media). If you are searching for a topic, rather than a specific disease (ie. Antenatal Care), you may come across a slightly different topic page, signified by the white info icon.

     The main difference between subject “disease” and “topic” pages is topic pages do not have terminal sub-pages (ie. 01_Epidemiology) like the disease pages, and usually (but not always) sit under *General tags. They are used to create cards on broad topics that do not fit neatly within individual single diseases (ie. Antenatal Care, Approach to the Seriously Unwell Child).

     As a general rule of thumb, if there is no icon on the page, it’s not a page you should be copying tags from (it is likely a parent page)!

  4. Find the particular subtag (for disease pages) that best describes the card you are adding (e.g. aetiology). Click the copy to clipboard icon that appears when hovering over the tag.
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     Please note that this will also copy over whatever other cards are relevant (e.g. the resources by rotation cardiology tag). This is to make it easier for you to add cards with all the correct tags. Other tags that might be included are Question Banks tags for questions relevant to the topic.

     

  Specific Resources (Additional Special Tags*)

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  *Some cards may require additional tags beyond a Subject and Rotation tag. The following tags are examples of other scenarios whereby specific additional tags may be added.

  In addition to the default Subject and Resources by Rotation databses and tags when creating new cards, please click on the following links for the appropriate tagging structures for:

  • Yield (high, medium, low, beyond medical student level - see heading below)
  • Anatomy & Physiology (dedicated anatomy/physiology topics; mostly archived and replaced with subject-specific *General tags)
  • Clinical Investigations (for ABGs, ECGs etc.)
  • eTG Complete Tags (for relevant eTG topics which can also be linked directly within subject disease pages)
  • Guidelines (national and state-based guidelines)
  • High Yield Diagnosis (high-yield cards; spot-diagnoses based on pathognomonic investigation findings, history features etc.)
  • Risk Stratification & Diagnostic Scoring Tools
  • Mnemonics
  • OSCEs & Clinical Reasoning
  • Pharmacology (for all cards related to pharmacology or drugs in any way)
  • Question Banks (notably eMedici)
  • Textbooks (so far, T&OC’s Clinical Examination (8e), On Call: Principles & Protocols (ANZ), Mechanisms of Clinical Signs (2e), and Llewellyn-Jones Fundamental of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (11e) are complete databases with tags easily able to be copied and allow for cards to also map to certain key textbooks)
• Have you tagged the card with an appropriate yield (low, medium, high)?
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  Did you know that you can easily add yield tags using the Malleus Anki Helper Add-on? It can be downloaded here.

  High-Yield

  Essential knowledge to pass medical school and function safely as a junior doctor. This includes core exam content, universally applicable clinical facts, and foundational concepts that scaffold broader understanding.

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  Examples

  First-line antibiotics for common conditions

  Common presentations of foundational conditions

  Recognition of red flag presentations

  • Patient safety pushes content high
  • Foundational/scaffolding concepts are always high
  • Even if the content is difficult to memorise but critical it is high-yield

  Medium-Yield

  Important knowledge that strengthens clinical practice or exam performance but is not strictly essential. Covers secondary facts, less common drug alternatives, cut-offs, or detail-level understanding that adds depth, but is not required for safe functioning.

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  Examples

  Investigation pathways for less common conditions

  • Good to know, but not essential
  • May help you stand out as a strong student
  • Patient safety relevance low-to-moderate

  Low-Yield

  Supplementary detail that a top student might know, but which is rarely tested and adds little to day-to-day safety or competence. Includes fine precision (e.g., exact numerical targets), obscure guidelines, or edge-case scenarios where memorisation cost outweighs clinical payoff.

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  Examples

  Rare organism gram stains

  Scenario-based practice questions, e.g. split second GCS or APGAR scores

  Perhaps difficult-to-memorise facts with limited utility

  • Retained mainly for completeness and to support mastery-level learning

  Beyond Medical School

  Content included for completeness or advanced learners, but beyond what medical students or interns are reasonably expected to know or memorise.

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  Examples

  Specialist-level management algorithms

  Subspecialty guidelines

  Detailed receptor pharmacology

  Rare pathology variants

  Yield as a Step-Wise Learning Tool

  The yield system can be used as a progressive pathway through the deck. A student can start with the high-yield material to build the minimum safe and examinable foundation, and then expand into medium and low yield for deeper knowledge.

  High-Yield as an entry point

  A student would begin here to learn the bare-minimum and foundational concepts of a particular subject, which should allow them to pass an exam and stay safe.

  Medium-Yield to increase depth

  Once the above is complete, medium-yield cards can be introduced to further expand understanding and build on the previous content, adding detail and nuance. This should improve confidence in a topic.

  Low-Yield for mastery

  Finally, unsuspending the low-yield cards extends the content, which may be by increased precision or obscure detail, or by scenario-based application (e.g. Glasgow-Imrie Scale). This completes the topic and should allow the student to have the understanding of a top student.

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  “Beyond medical school” content is not necessarily a part of the step-wise knowledge, and exists mostly for completeness and specific interest.

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