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For IMGs drowning in bugs: the 1 resource that makes them stick, and what to skip.
By Dr. Marish Asudani · Published
Sketchy Micro is S tier: for micro, nothing else comes close. Mehlman micro is A. Dirty Medicine micro and the First Aid micro pages with the FA Guide MCQs are B. Boards & Beyond, Pixorize and AJmonics micro are C. Ninja Nerd micro is D, and Kaplan is F.
Read this firstBoards & Beyond, Kaplan, Sketchy, Pixorize, First Aid, and the free playlists. Micro is pure volume: dozens of bugs that blur together. The resource that wins is the one that makes them stick.
Every name below opens it. Here is how to read the tiers:
9 resources, 6 tiers. Tap any name to open it.
SFor micro especially, nothing else comes close. About 85 bugs in 6 days, around 20 a day: watch, recall out loud, re-watch the gaps, read the PDF, then that day's MCQs the same night.
Micro, as cardsThe FA Foundation Anki micro deck: 271 cards, page by page off First Aid. Opens straight into the deck.
Open the micro deck →The micro NBMEs actually askedThe NBME Booster micro deck: 348 cards from NBME 20 to 34 and the Free 120. Revise it before your next form.
Open micro Booster →Want a day-by-day schedule that tells you exactly what to study next? The Vault builds it around your exam date.
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Sketchy Micro in 6 days — about 20 bugs a day.
Micro by system — the bugs inside each system.
All of antibiotics in 90 minutes — the drugs that kill them.
The pharmacology tier list — the same logic, for drugs.