MBTI and Emergency Medicine

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Hello Everyone,

INTRO: I'm actually curious to see if Emergency Medicine tends to draw certain personality types vs. others. A commonly used psychological preference test called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is used by medical school counselors to help students select a specialty.

HYPOTHESIS: Although Emergency Medicine tends to draw a diverse crowd of individuals, my theory is that the majority are of the Perciever type: xxxP.

LIMITATIONS: This forum is probably not representative of the real distribution of personality types found in the field, as certain MBTI types are more drawn to Online interaction than others.

Basically, either take the test and post your poll result, or just directly post it if you know your four letter personality code. I know that this is just speculative pseudoscience, but I do think it would be fun to analyze the results.

Take care, and I hope you enjoy reading about the vague descriptors that fit your personality.

 

[winkleweizen]

Entj

 

[la gringa]

also ENTJ - am pretty strongly E and J and have been since i first took the MBTI in college. i find that the N/S and T/F vary.

 

[xaelia]

IN(F/T)P ftw.

DiSC profile pattern: Creative.

 

[bad virus]

IN(F/T)P ftw.

DiSC profile pattern: Creative.

So you created mdapps? Cool, and thank you.

 

[bad virus]

I am curious to see if anyone here is pretty good w/ stats and can make some cool tables w/ p values and confidence intervals for fun, after we get a good N. We could start the pseudoscience journal of the student doctor network (pseusci J SDN)

 

[umz]

Intj

 

[EM2BE]

ESTJ...(guardian supervisor) E&J are stronger

This has changed completely from about 10 years ago when I had to take the test. I guess I really used to be much more introverted than I am now.

1% sensing...I think residency is wearing me out. Or a bad break-up. Or both.

 

[EM2BE]

I really do wish this were a task of some way of measuring ADD. I'm pretty sure I just lost an hour of time on here and I'm in the middle of preparing a presentation. Oops. Back to work.

 

[Hamhock]

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[UnderwaterDoc]

Entp

 

[deleted109597]

INTJ vs INTP, depending on how much someone pisses me off.

 

[DocRGR]

Intj

 

[dchristismi]

ENTJ last time I took it, ENFJ today.

And it's pretty borderline on the E/I, actually.

 

[Arcan57]

INFJ, used to be INTP prior to med school.

 

[bad virus]

So they say there exists a few experiences in ones life that end up your outlook. One of them is medical school.

I am quite interested in hearing some of the stories behind the reported psychological preferences some of you reported. Anyone feel like enlightening us by sharing?

My type was ENFP before and I just retested as an ENTP. I have no explanation for this other than that this test was different than the one I took at the start of medical school.

 

[SDEM2012]

ENFP - same as when I took it three years ago. Very strongly extroverted, everything else moderate.

 

[deleted65604]

So your theory was blown out of the water, right?

Or do only judgemental people get on an anonymous internet forum feeling an obligation to put others in their place.

You need to send out a survey to a few residency programs and see the results.

You could follow a cohort from medical school out to residency (survey those going into ER in their 4th year and measure them again say 3 years out from residency again).

 

[Deuce Doc]

INTJ--moderate in all components. I think I scored the same in high school.

 

[la gringa]

ya'll introverts must be totally exhausted after a shift in the ED... b/c even i, a strong extrovert, want to be in a quiet room after some shifts!!!

 

[bad virus]

So your theory was blown out of the water, right?

Or do only judgemental people get on an anonymous internet forum feeling an obligation to put others in their place.

You need to send out a survey to a few residency programs and see the results.

You could follow a cohort from medical school out to residency (survey those going into ER in their 4th year and measure them again say 3 years out from residency again).

You could take it in that antagonistic way or you could just say that the null hypothesis was verified.

Given the large number of xNTJ's, it makes sense to me why I seem to get along so well with most of the people in this specialty.

 

[Cerberus]

ENTP. Pretty sure this is what I've always been.