well you can't be assisted in making your own notes! What I meant is that at jhh each monday a resident prepares a grand rounds level presentation fo rthe department. In this way you essentially prepare you own review of the topic. By the end of residency you've already made notes on several topics and it truely is a review for you by now, not learning the literature for the first time. What you may not realize is that knowing the literature is very different from doing rotations in the field. I could do prostate rotations for a year and still not know the literature, just the "habits" of how you treat one situation over another, at least in my institution.
Reviewing good notes in an inferior way of studying expect perhaps in the extreme case of youre being a very poor student, in which case youre not likely to be in rad onc in this climate. Someone else's note may point you in the direction of where you need to go, but oyu can't really learn by doing this and thus you'll need to review someone else's notes many times over more than you would youre own carefully prepared notes. Also, the literature is moving fast. last years notes wont be sufficient for some of this years topics, (ie head and neck, prostate, breast). Let alone from a few years ago. Also dont believe in the "beaumont" notes or the "harvard notes" etc. Ive seen all of these. Some are detailed; too detailed. Some are just plain wrong. Use others as a guide but from day one, start youre own files. you'll thank yourself later many times over.
