I understand the skepticism, but keep at it. I am working on light material and technical material at the same time. I was skeptical and hesitant to even try it on the technical stuff. So I divided my photoreading like this: five books a day on the light stuff and five books on the tech stuff. Then I determined that I did not want to fail, so I only activated the light stuff and it worked. Now I am out of excuses and light reading books. When I mean light reading I mean consulting and marketing books, negotiating books and stuff like that. the technical material is Linux operating system, Cisco router stuff and other computer things. What I am going to do is follow Pete's suggestion and nail down few chapters at a time rather than the whole texts. I will photoread them all, but just activate portions of them
Now in regards to outlines - I kind of find it different for you, a medical student, since you are basically following the same principles as activating - even if you do not realize it.
As a medical student I know you are attributing many ACRONYMS in your studies. I know this because I attended the Special Warfare college in Ft. Bragg - studying communications - and many of my collegaues were on the medical side and basically learn as much as doctors do in a shorter period of time.
Mind mapping is the same thing I would presume.
Hope this helps.
