I have recently returned to the field of medical (radiation) physics after an absence of 27 years, so my current challenge is to learn what amounts to an entire Honours science course as fast as possible - while volunteering in a hospital to learn the practical side. I PR'd the main textbook once before starting - and having read the above posts, I will now PR it again every day for a week, then tackle one chapter at a time. Because every detail seems essential knowledge, I'm finding it really hard not to study it all as I try to activate.
re syntopic reading: Thanks, Rachel, for the idea of printing the first page of an electronic article and using that for notes and mind-mapping etc - an excellent system! (It also please my 'green heart', which objects to the environmental effects of too much printing.)
Alex, you comment that there are many previous posts (or threads) on this topic - but how does one find them? The search function at the top doesn't seem to work (for me today, anyway). I then found 'Search the Forum', searched for 'Textbooks' and got a long string of results - which all (at least the first few dozen) seem to point to this thread. Is there a more efficient way? Thanks very much!
Last edited by Carola; 01/07/12 04:59 PM.
