NEXO integrates with Anki. After every case, the Anki button on the result screen creates a card straight from NEXO and opens it in the Anki app, ready to save. It can also find the cards you already have on that diagnosis, and on image cases you can take the case image into your card.
NEXO is not a flashcard app. It has no decks and no spaced repetition of its own. The Anki button connects the case you just played to the Anki you already use.
Why does a medical diagnosis game need Anki?
A lot of medical students run their study life in Anki: medical Anki decks, a deck from medical school, cards written the night before an exam. The review system already exists, and it works.
What a clinical case adds is context. You meet a diagnosis as a story: a presentation, a history, an exam finding, a test result. When you miss it, or get it only at the last clue, that's exactly the moment you want to keep it.
The problem is the gap between the two. You finish a case, think "I should make a card for this", and by the time you open Anki the thought is gone. The Anki button closes that gap in one tap.
What does the Anki button do?
Create a card in Anki. NEXO builds the card from the case, with the diagnosis and the key points from the clinical explanation, and opens it directly in the Anki app. You review it and save it to your deck.
Find my Anki cards. It searches your Anki for the cards you already have on that diagnosis, in the language you play in, so you can review them right away instead of next month.
Image cases. On Multimedia cases (an X-ray, an ECG, a skin lesion, a fundoscopy) you can take the case image into the card: image on the front, diagnosis on the back, a recognition card built from the case you just played.
What NEXO is not
NEXO doesn't have its own flashcards, decks or spaced repetition, and it doesn't schedule reviews. Your cards and your review schedule live in Anki. NEXO is for practicing diagnostic reasoning on fictional cases with real clinical presentation, with ICD-10 proximity feedback on every guess, and the Anki button makes the two work together.
Who is it for?
Medical students in the clinical years who review with Anki between rotations, residents who keep a personal deck, and anyone who has looked for clinical cases for their Anki deck and found only static question lists. If you study with Anki in Portuguese or Spanish ("anki medicina" decks are everywhere), play NEXO in that language and your cards come out in the same language as your deck.
FAQ
Does NEXO integrate with Anki?
Yes. After each case, the Anki button creates a card from the case and opens it directly in the Anki app. It also finds your existing cards on that diagnosis, and on image cases it takes the case image into the card.
Does NEXO have its own flashcards or spaced repetition?
No. NEXO works alongside Anki: your cards and your review schedule stay in Anki.
Is there a clinical case game that works with Anki?
NEXO is a daily medical diagnosis game that works with Anki. You play a case with up to 6 clues, get ICD-10 proximity feedback on each guess, and then send that diagnosis to Anki as a card.
Does it work with Anki decks in other languages?
Yes. Cards and searches follow the language you play NEXO in: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German or Russian.
Where can I play?
On the web at nexo.wiki.br and on iPhone ("NEXO: Medical Diagnosis" on the App Store).
NEXO is a daily medical diagnosis game for clinical reasoning that works with Anki: up to 6 clues, ICD-10 feedback, and an Anki button that turns each case into a card. Play at nexo.wiki.br or get it on the App Store.
All cases are fictional cases with real clinical presentation, written for teaching. NEXO is an educational game and is not medical advice.
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