Med specialty quiz

My results:
1) Pathology
2) Occupational Med
3) Rheumatology



My top 4 choices ranked 33rd, 10th, 23rd, and 12th respectively.

Epic quizfail.

Hematology?

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I don't know what specialty I want to be, but I do know that I want to be that guy with the head mirror.

I got:
1- PMR
2- Gastroenterology
both of which I am considering

1. neurosurgery
2. radiology
3. infectious disease

Salpingo said:

I don't know what specialty I want to be, but I do know that I want to be that guy with the head mirror.

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Lmao.

Did anyone else get a ridiculous amount of repeat questions? Grr.

Salpingo said:

I don't know what specialty I want to be, but I do know that I want to be that guy with the head mirror.

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Wow, I haven't seen one of those in a long time.

Neuro
EM
Derm
Path
FM
IM
Rads
Endo
ENT
Optho

I could see some of those. EM is my first choice btw...

I almost completed the ROAD to success but Anes was 29

But, I did complete a different RODE to success, lol!!!

Sweet!

radiology
nuclear med
pathology
thoracic surgery
plastic surgery
dermatology
anesthesiology

Tenacity said:

Did anyone else get a ridiculous amount of repeat questions? Grr.

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Don't sweat it. First Aid says 10-15% of those questions are experimental.

1. psychiatry
2. preventative med
3. pediatrics
4. nuclear med
5. neurosurgery
6. aerospace med

Not interested in any of these. I don't even know what aerospace medicine is and didn't even know preventative medicine could be a specialty. What a weird combo to choose from too.

Not surprised though. When I was in high school we took career tests... and people would get categories and suggested careers, like "Science and Technology --> Doctor, Researcher, Marine Biologist" or "Law and Society --> Politician, Lawyer"... Of course, mine came out, "Miscellaneous --> Dictionary editor"... I mean what kind of a weirdo person do you have to be to get that kind of suggestion?? Haha, these quizzes never know how to read me.

Wow...the test creator is AT MY SCHOOL and I've never even seen this before.

Taking it now...Hopefully it's better than that high school aptitude test that told me to be an accountant...

Edit: I got...

1) Radiology (I hate the dark...so, no)
2) Nephrology (The kidney is my least favorite organ...again, no)
3) Infectious Disease (I <3 parasites...this could work)
4) Med Oncology (Meh)
5) Neurosurgery (I HATE neurosurgery...I would rather work in the mail room)
6) Dermatology (Meh)
7) Thoracic Surgery (Random...but could be fun)
8) Pathology (I need live patients, sorry)
9) Nuclear Med (I would rather work in the mail room at sub-zero temperatures)
10) Colon and Rectal Surgery (are they trying to say I'm anal?)

And the specialty I really want comes in at...#25. Even aerospace med beat it...and what on earth IS aerospace med?

Oh well, at least peds, opthalmology, and EM came in dead last...I still have some faith in the world.

1 preventive med 43
2 neurology 43
3 radiology 42
4 psychiatry 42
5 general internal med 42

4th year here, the specialty I am applying to tied for number 1. I also flirted with medicine and psych, which are on the type 5 as well.

1. Radiology
2. Pathology
3. Neurology
4. Dermatology
5. Anesthesiology


Hmm...I'll be interested to take this again right before I apply for residency and see what happens.

My top 4:

1 general surgery 47
2 obstetrics/gynecology 47
3 orthopaedic surgery 46
4 thoracic surgery 46

I'm applying in gen surg; also liked ortho; think thoracics is really cool too (may look at it for fellowship down the line even).

OB/Gyn is the only outlier...but I did enjoy catching babies...

Salpingo said:

I don't know what specialty I want to be, but I do know that I want to be that guy with the head mirror.

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Then make sure you answer 'most true' each of the five times when it prompts, 'I enjoy reflecting things in a funny lens worn on my head'.

Radiology, Nuclear medicine, Aerospace medicine?

I don't even know what aerospace medicine is. Sir, I can only treat you if we're aboard an aircraft, my training didn't prepare me for the air pressure found at sea level...

I always found this particular quiz aggravating because it seems like I'm answering the same question over and over

I prefer this one:

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/main_menu.htm

lolol

1. Radiology
2. Aerospace
3. Emergency

Reality:
1. Psych - pgy-1 so I'd hope so lol
2. PM&R
3. Cardiology

Isoprop said:

I prefer this one:

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/main_menu.htm

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I agree with this one much more.
1.ER (by a large margin) 30+ points
2. Surgery (multiple types listed)
3. Anes/Neonatal (never thought about neonatal)

1. Thoracic Surgery (47)
2. General Surgery (45)
3. Plastic Surgery (45)
4. Orthopaedic Surgery (45)

No idea what i'm interested in yet (MS1), but i feel like this quiz wants me to be a surgeon...

1 nuclear med ............................ 43
2 pathology ............................... 42
3 urology ................................... 41
4 radiology ................................. 41
5 plastic surgery ......................... 41
6 thoracic surgery ...................... 40
7 general surgery ....................... 40


33 general internal med ............... 31
34 psychiatry ............................... 30
35 pediatrics ................................ 24
36 family practice ......................... 23


Not too surprised about my lower scores, but am surprised urology was so high on the list. Don't think I do that for a living.



Nifty little quiz, though.

Rank Specialty Score
1 nuclear med 45
2 pathology 44
3 thoracic surgery 44
4 plastic surgery 44
5 occupational med 42
6 neurology 42
7 neurosurgery 41




Nice... time to wikipedia what nuclear med is...

colon and rectal surgery was pretty high up there for me. wow there are so many inappropriate things i could say right now.

Hmmm, using the second test: (Scores ranging from 22-30)

Dermatology
Otolaryngology
Ophthalmology
Radiation Oncology
Plastic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Urology
Anesthesiology
Gastroenterology

Interesting. I wouldn't say I'd disagree, but radiology is high on the list and derm/rad onc aren't so much.

Neato:
[SIZE=-1]1) Orthopaedics 47
2) Cardiology 47
3) General Surgery 46
4) Nephrology 45
5) Neurosurgery 44
6) Plastic Surgery 44
7) OB/GYN 43
8) Pulmonology 43
9) Hematology 43
10) Infectious Disease 42
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mmmcdowe said:

I'm not sure how much I trust a test that can't spell neurological "suregery"

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I thought the same thing, but oh well. I think it just ranks things differently. I'm obviously enjoy money, time, procedures and "being creative" according to my rankings.

I think it is a little idealistic though. While money or time MAY not matter much to you, I'm sure people are going to rank them higher on a little quiz thing. It is fun to toy around with and see what you get .

For those wondering what aerospace medicine is, straight from wikipedia:

Aviation medicine, also called flight medicine or aerospace medicine, is a branch of preventive or occupational medicine in which the patients/subjects are pilots and aircrews.[1] The specialty strives to treat or prevent conditions to which aircrews are particularly susceptible, applies medical knowledge to the human factors in aviation and is thus a critical component of aviation safety.[1] A military practitioner of aviation medicine may be called a flight surgeon and a civilian practitioner is an aviation medical examiner.[1]

sounds kinda cool actually, but too specialized for my tastes and don't want to get stuck in the military for life, which is probably where most of the options are.

Anyway, I took this test a while ago:
1 neurology 40 (I shadowed a neurologist - nice guy, but BO-ring)
2 pathology 39 (hell no, I hate microscopes)
3 urology 38 (HUH?? Nooooo)
4 radiology 38 (I thought about this, but when I actually had to start reading images in anatomy, I hate it, so no)
5 psychiatry 38 (possible)
6 aerospace med 37 (see above)
7 thoracic surgery 37 (nope - I don't want surgery)
8 endocrinology 37 (possible, diabetes is interesting)
9 allergy & immunology 36 (possible, immunology is interesting, allergy, not so much)
10 family practice 36 (no, I don't like families)

interestingly, what I"m leaning toward right now (granted, it's early), anesthesiology (and thereafter critical care, which isn't on this list) came in DEAD LAST

overall, I found the AAMC Careers in Medicine website much more helpful.

Reading images in anatomy is hardly the same as actually doing radiology. Of course anatomy images are boring. Radiology is cool once you get into the mix of procedures and image studies with tons of different pathologies.

Rank Specialty Score
1 nephrology 43
2 allergy & immunology 42
3 physical med & rehabilitation 42
4 neurology 41
5 aerospace med 41
6 plastic surgery 41

-________- I hate all of my top 5 except for 6.

yea, mine was pretty accurate. The top four all had roughly the same score, neurosurgery, urology, general surgery, thoracic surgery. There were a couple of inaccuracies (like OB-GYN was pretty high, which I have no real interest in), but otherwise was pretty good.

And like the above posters, what in the world is aerospace medicine?

These tests are pretty bogus. What they do is they take a survey of x physicians ask them the same questions they are asking us in the test and then try to match it with the specialty that those physicians picked.

The only real way to assess what specialty is right for you is to research each one of them, read what the typical day is for each specialty, and then possibly shadow the ones you narrowed down.

The specialty I know that I want to go into got listed almost last when I took this test .

Salpingo said:

I don't know what specialty I want to be, but I do know that I want to be that guy with the head mirror.

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That would be ENT.

1. Nuclear medicine (first thought: I'm gonna be a NUCLEAR DOCTOR!!!.

second thought (after learning what nuclear medicine is): Dear god that sounds awful
2. General surgery: definitely possible
3. Radiology: Hell no unless they develop an IR residency that doesn't involve years of DR
4. Thoracic surgery: would be game, but poor career prospects for such a long difficult process
5. OB-GYN: hell no.

1 pathology 46
2 neurology 46
3 allergy & immunology 45
4 general internal med 44
5 nuclear med 44

Pretty accurate since I've been really looking into the top 3. But I have limited clinical experience, so that could easily change.

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/main_menu.htm

I found this one much more accurate.

3 of the 4 specialties I considered in my 3rd year made the top 6

Pretty accurate! I can only imagine being a surgical specialist.

1 thoracic surgery
2 general surgery
3 occupational med
4 plastic surgery
5 neurology
6 pulmonology
7 nephrology
8 endocrinology
9 cardiology
10 neurosurgery

this is what we're supposed to be using: https://www.aamc.org/students/medstudents/cim/

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I took this years ago and my chosen specialty wasn't in the top 15. The quiz is worthless.

I've matched into my field of choice and I absolutely love what I do. Quiz = Fail

TexasPhysician said:

I took this years ago and my chosen specialty wasn't in the top 15. The quiz is worthless.

I've matched into my field of choice and I absolutely love what I do. Quiz = Fail

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i agree the quiz sucks but

anecdotal evidence = FAIL

I got:

1. Orthopedic Surgery
2. OB/Gyn
3. Path
Literally the 3 things I don't ever want to do along with Peds (which was dead last )...

I love the idea of Gas and EM, but those were at the bottom too.

2012mdc said:

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/main_menu.htm

I found this one much more accurate.

3 of the 4 specialties I considered in my 3rd year made the top 6

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I also found this one much more accurate.

Colon and Rectal Surgery
Neurological Suregery
Plastic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Pediatric Surgery
Otolaryngology
Gastroenterology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Ophthalmology
Urology
Vascular Surgery

Of my top 11, I am strongly considering doing 6 of them. Of the bottom 31, I would only consider 3 of those fields.