Medical specialty Apptitude Test

[BeatrixKiddo]

This is what I got:


Rank Specialty Score
1 dermatology 47
2 infectious disease 44
3 emergency med 43
4 radiology 43
5 neurology 43
6 nuclear med 42
7 pathology 42
8 rheumatology 42
9 pulmonology 42
10 endocrinology 42
11 obstetrics/gynecology 41
12 psychiatry 41
13 ophthalmology 40
14 pediatrics 39
15 urology 39
16 aerospace med 39
17 med oncology 39
18 anesthesiology 39
19 radiation oncology 39
20 allergy & immunology 38
21 preventive med 38
22 plastic surgery 37
23 colon & rectal surgery 37
24 general internal med 37
25 hematology 37
26 gastroenterology 36
27 nephrology 36
28 otolaryngology 35
29 neurosurgery 35
30 thoracic surgery 34
31 general surgery 34
32 occupational med 33
33 orthopaedic surgery 32
34 physical med & rehabilitation 30
35 cardiology 30
36 family practice 29


That kind of sucks since I wanted to do Family Practice, but yeah. What did you guys get on this?

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/TestStructure.cfm

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[4whom]

I had to stop at 54 out of sheer bored of seeing the same 6 questions repeated. Wonder what speciality that suggests. Hmmmm.

 

[hlchess]

I had to stop at 54 out of sheer bored of seeing the same 6 questions repeated. Wonder what speciality that suggests. Hmmmm.

Haha I think if you get bored easily you should do Emergency Medicine.

 

[scrubsaresexy]

I took that for fun...I think two of them actually. I already have a pretty good idea of what I want to go into, but it was interesting to see my other 'options.' Of course, I was really biased when I took it because I really wanted to get what I really want to do

Random other note...I was reading JAMA the other day (god, that sounds like the beginning of a bad nerd pickup line). Anyway, there was an article talking about how Family Practice was sort of dying breed, and how that wasn't necessarily a good thing...I want to say it was in one of the last two March issues, but I can't remember. But if you're interested in family practice, it was an interesting read. Heck, it was an interesting read if you're not interested in family practice.

 

[GreenShirt]

hmmm....I wonder how accurate the test is. I got:

1 physical med & rehabilitation 44
2 med oncology 42
3 hematology 42

I don't even know what #1 is. No way I'm touching oncology. I don't want to sit and look at lab results all day.

My number #1 choice, EM, was 4th to last.

Although, I'll have to give them some credit; Pediatrics was dead last, which it is on my list. Maybe they know something I don't.

 

[ptdoctor]

Thank god... colon and rectal surgery came in last for me

 

[4whom]

Thank god... colon and rectal surgery came in last for me

Aww, c'mon. I think it would be a blast to drive one of those enteroscopy things and zap stuff with lasers. Pew-pew!

 

[gujuDoc]

Of the things that were listed in my top 5, Infectious Diseases is def. one of the ones that interested me.

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

I had to stop at 54 out of sheer bored of seeing the same 6 questions repeated. Wonder what speciality that suggests. Hmmmm.

Well they repeated questions so check your consistency. You probably shouldn't be a doctar.

 

[Law2Doc]

I had to stop at 54 out of sheer bored of seeing the same 6 questions repeated. Wonder what speciality that suggests. Hmmmm.

If you actually spent the time to do all those questions, you probably are slated for cubicle work -- you are a drone. Start cranking out those TPA reports.

Nobody picks specialties this way, and there is no rational basis for thinking this is a particularly good way to do it. And besides, it's pretty much guaranteed that the field you want to go into when you start medicine will not be the one you apply for by 4th year anyhow -- 90% of all students will change their minds at least once.

 

[4whom]

Well they repeated questions so check your consistency. You probably shouldn't be a doctar.

Which is why i have begun to consider the prospects of working as a demolition expert.or porn star.

 

[munnabhai]

lol at the MSAT...

MSAT = MCAT + SAT

dangit, that was really really lame

 

[karakhanyan]

1 plastic surgery 48
2 ophthalmology 47
3 emergency med 47

 

[munnabhai]

1 plastic surgery 48
2 ophthalmology 47
3 emergency med 47

awesome avatar... cant say that ive seen a goth hello kitty before lol

 

[Vano]

Thank god... colon and rectal surgery came in last for me

Really, I thought ptdoctor stood for ProcTologist doctor

 

[boulux]

wow, this test is so boring!

 

[SuziQ]

1 emergency med 46 yay!
2 obstetrics/gynecology 43 eww no
3 aerospace med 42 what the f is this anyway? i mean i can figure out from the name but i've never even heard of anyone having this specialty...

 

[beauregard]

1 Occupational Med
2 Ob/Gyn
3 General internal med
4 Rheumatology
5 Med Oncology

Gastroenterology and Emergency Medicine were my lowest.. which is kind of funny because I always thought I might want to do that..

And what the heck is occupational med exactly??

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

wow, this test is so boring!

Well, so is becoming a doctar, get used to it!!

 

[DeadCactus]

This is far more accurate (and less boring):

 

[BlackSails]

Rank Specialty Score
1 infectious disease 45
2 cardiology 45
3 nephrology 44
4 neurosurgery 43
5 thoracic surgery 43
6 pathology 43
7 nuclear med 43
8 pulmonology 43
9 aerospace med 42
10 gastroenterology 42
11 endocrinology 41
12 allergy & immunology 41
13 emergency med 41
14 general surgery 41
15 radiology 40
16 physical med & rehabilitation 40
17 neurology 40
18 urology 39
19 orthopaedic surgery 39
20 plastic surgery 39
21 dermatology 39
22 general internal med 39
23 hematology 38
24 med oncology 38
25 otolaryngology 38
26 obstetrics/gynecology 38
27 ophthalmology 37
28 rheumatology 37
29 radiation oncology 36
30 psychiatry 35
31 preventive med 35
32 occupational med 34
33 colon & rectal surgery 34
34 anesthesiology 33
35 pediatrics 32
36 family practice 31


I actually think it is fairly close to what I would like to do, with the notable exception of putting anaestheisa close to the bottom.

 

[SupergreenMnM]

1 emergency med 46 yay!
2 obstetrics/gynecology 43 eww no
3 aerospace med 42 what the f is this anyway? i mean i can figure out from the name but i've never even heard of anyone having this specialty...

Aerospace med comes up I think if you indicate you enjoy intellectual challenge...

Generally you already have to have practiced medicine for a bit to go into an aerospace med residency, and its fairly restricted (with one exception I believe) to the military.

 

[21isFun]

Rank Specialty Score
1 dermatology 45
2 urology 44
3 radiology 43
4 anesthesiology 43
5 ophthalmology 42
6 pathology 41
7 plastic surgery 41
8 emergency med 41
9 colon & rectal surgery 40
10 gastroenterology 40


I actually think this is prob pretty good- #1,3,4,6, and 10 were all of my top interests and infectious disease and allergy/immunology were at 20 and 21 rounding out pretty much all of my favs at this point- guess I need to start studying harder haha

 

[Aggie07grl]

1 Pediatrics 44
2 Rheumatology 44

My last few included cardiology and some different surgery specialties. I was suprised to see that they put family medicine in the middle of my list, since that is the specialty I am most interested in right now. (Right now being before even applying to med school). Thanks for posting the survey!

 

[crazy_cavalier]

1 nuclear med 47
2 thoracic surgery 45
3 plastic surgery 44
4 neurology 43
5 pathology 43
6 neurosurgery 42
7 preventive med 42
8 radiology 42
9 pulmonology 42
10 allergy & immunology 42

Whew, I was answering everything as rapidly as possible. It's interesting that a lot of the stuff I'm interested in (neuro, surgery, rads, path) were in the top results. It looks like I'm going to have to look more into nuclear med.

I think the reason some of the questions are repeated is because it analyzes when and how your response changes to the same question.

 

[bubabugster]

Rank Specialty Score
1 aerospace med 49
2 preventive med 49
3 neurology 49
4 neurosurgery 49
5 endocrinology 49
6 cardiology 48
7 nephrology 48
8 med oncology 48
9 hematology 48
10 urology 48
11 thoracic surgery 48
12 general surgery 48
13 radiation oncology 48
14 pathology 47
15 gastroenterology 47
16 pulmonology 47
17 allergy & immunology 47
18 infectious disease 47
19 rheumatology 46
20 general internal med 46
21 colon & rectal surgery 46
22 psychiatry 46
23 nuclear med 46
24 plastic surgery 46
25 physical med & rehabilitation 46
26 orthopaedic surgery 45
27 emergency med 45
28 ophthalmology 44
29 otolaryngology 44
30 occupational med 44
31 radiology 44
32 obstetrics/gynecology 43
33 dermatology 42
34 anesthesiology 42
35 family practice 41
36 pediatrics 41


Weird! I was always thinking Neurology or Neurosurgery and that's what the test recommended. Yay!

 

[Depakote]

This is what I got:


That kind of sucks since I wanted to do Family Practice, but yeah. What did you guys get on this?

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/TestStructure.cfm

Then um... screw what an online test says and do Family Practice?

 

[SupergreenMnM]

I actually hear that residency directors are asking for this quiz when you go in for your interviews. If you don't have their field in the top 5 I don't think they will consider you seriously. Sorry

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

This is far more accurate (and less boring):

I didn't know it was spelled PAEdeatrics.

 

[Kraazy]

I didn't know it was spelled PAEdeatrics.

Classical/brit spelling (like anaesthesia, diarrhoea, etc...; closer to the latin roots). Americans like their words shorter/simpler.

 

[NexusMD]

Rank Specialty Score
1 radiology 44
2 pathology 43
3 rheumatology 43
4 dermatology 43
5 allergy & immunology 43
6 emergency med 41
7 infectious disease 41
8 hematology 41
9 endocrinology 41
10 physical med & rehabilitation 41
11 nuclear med 41
12 neurology 41
13 psychiatry 41
14 preventive med 41
15 aerospace med 41
16 occupational med 40
17 neurosurgery 40
18 ophthalmology 40
19 anesthesiology 40
20 general internal med 40
21 radiation oncology 39
22 nephrology 39
23 urology 39
24 obstetrics/gynecology 38
25 otolaryngology 38
26 med oncology 38
27 pulmonology 38
28 gastroenterology 38
29 colon & rectal surgery 37
30 pediatrics 37
31 thoracic surgery 37
32 plastic surgery 37
33 general surgery 35
34 orthopaedic surgery 35
35 cardiology 34
36 family practice 32

Which is great, 7 out of the top 10 I was actually interested in.

 

[45408]

last time I took it, urology and emergency med were near the top.

 

[tdd340]

They need to add a screening tool as the first question. What is your USMLE Step I score. From there it will sift out alot of specialties right off the bat.

 

[variablistic]

Emergency Medicine: 46
Radiology: 45
Neurosurgery: 44
Nuclear Med: 44


Pretty accurate.
My #1 is Emergency and I find the other 3 very interesting.

Strangely enough, the other graph showed the same.

 

[unsung]

Wow! I'm surprised how accurate the results are considering the questions asked didn't seem that illuminating.

My greatest interest IS in mental disorders: psychiatry/neurology. A close second interest is infectious disease/issues of public health, bioterrorism, etc.

I'm actually rather surprised that neurosurgery & infectious disease are so close together in my list... they seem quite different.

1 psychiatry 44
2 neurosurgery 44
3 general internal med 44
4 infectious disease 43
5 hematology 42
6 cardiology 42
7 thoracic surgery 42
8 physical med & rehabilitation 42
9 neurology 42
10 pathology 41
11 endocrinology 41
12 pulmonology 41
13 nephrology 41
14 med oncology 40
15 rheumatology 40
16 nuclear med 40
17 aerospace med 40
18 plastic surgery 39
19 allergy & immunology 39
20 radiation oncology 38
21 family practice 37
22 dermatology 37
23 general surgery 37
24 preventive med 37
25 radiology 36
26 orthopaedic surgery 36
27 otolaryngology 35
28 obstetrics/gynecology 35
29 occupational med 35
30 urology 34
31 gastroenterology 34
32 ophthalmology 32
33 pediatrics 31
34 emergency med 31
35 colon & rectal surgery 29
36 anesthesiology 29

 

[Institute]

1 Med Oncology 50
2 Radiation Oncology 50
3 Colon & Rectal Surgery 49
4 Urology 49
5 Orthopeadic Surgery 49
6 Endocrinology 48
7 Otolaryngology 47
8 General Surgery 46
9 Psychiatry 46
10 Neurosurgery 46


Funny, my mom is oncologist/hematologist. Cancer is interesting but not my thing.

Nice to see I got 4 surgical outfits in the top 10 though. ENT might be fun too, considering I've had ear problems throughout my life (cholesteatoma at age 2 =/ and lost approx 70% of hearing in left ear). I'm not digging penisology though.

 

[LifetimeDoc]

This is far more accurate (and less boring):

I am crazy and I have a non-existent attention span. Emergency Medicine here I come!

 

[AmoryBlaine]

That test pops up every few months. It's pretty silly; as some of you have pointed out specialties that are totally different get put right next to each other.

It's fun to take though, and definitely more accurate than that chart!

 

[yepiminthere]

Ha! I got pediatrics! They should have asked if you like working with kids.

 

[moomix906]

This is what I got:

That kind of sucks since I wanted to do Family Practice, but yeah. What did you guys get on this?

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/TestStructure.cfm

did you answer 'not at all' for all the questions that said, "do you like listening to people" "do you enjoy being involved in patient's lives" "do you want total responsibility for patients and their families"??

It's hard to see how else you got family med at the absolute bottom

 

[Chargers]

This is far more accurate (and less boring):

WHAT? ophthalmology for me ? but I wanted emergency medicine

 

[MonkeyNuts!]

Rank Specialty Score
1 nuclear med 46
2 allergy & immunology 46
3 neurology 45
4 pathology 44
5 gastroenterology 44
6 ophthalmology 43
7 neurosurgery 43
8 preventive med 43
9 plastic surgery 43
10 occupational med 42
11 urology 42
12 radiology 42
13 psychiatry 42
14 rheumatology 42
15 pulmonology 42
16 endocrinology 42
17 emergency med 42
18 dermatology 42
19 anesthesiology 42
20 thoracic surgery 41
21 otolaryngology 40
22 radiation oncology 40
23 hematology 39
24 med oncology 39
25 general surgery 39
26 aerospace med 38
27 orthopaedic surgery 38
28 nephrology 38
29 general internal med 38
30 infectious disease 37
31 cardiology 37
32 physical med & rehabilitation 37
33 family practice 36
34 colon & rectal surgery 36
35 pediatrics 35
36 obstetrics/gynecology 35

 

[MonkeyNuts!]

lots of repeated questions...

 

[Timmythemic22]

Rank Specialty Score
1 radiation oncology 42 EWW
2 general internal med 41 EWW
3 med oncology 40 EWW
4 hematology 39
5 gastroenterology 38
6 dermatology 38
7 psychiatry 38
8 occupational med 38
9 physical med & rehabilitation 38
10 neurology 38
11 rheumatology 37
12 pediatrics 37
13 ophthalmology 36
14 endocrinology 36
15 cardiology 36
16 nephrology 35
17 radiology 34
18 otolaryngology 34
19 pulmonology 34
20 urology 34
21 aerospace med 33
22 anesthesiology 33
23 neurosurgery 32
24 orthopaedic surgery 32
25 plastic surgery 31
26 preventive med 31
27 allergy & immunology 31
28 emergency med 31
29 colon & rectal surgery 31
30 infectious disease 31
31 pathology 30
32 thoracic surgery 29
33 obstetrics/gynecology 29
34 family practice 29
35 general surgery 27 My interest right now
36 nuclear med 25

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

lots of repeated questions...

The better to test you my dear.

 

[FON86]

at least my number one is my prospective specialty.
1 orthopaedic surgery 45
2 urology 44
3 radiology 43

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

at least my number one is my prospective specialty.
1 orthopaedic surgery 45
2 urology 44
3 radiology 43

That's a really good sign!

 

[bioteach]

That's weird. My two top choices (now, before actually getting into medical school) are Neurology and Family Practice. Very different ends of the spectrum. It ranked Neurology as #1 and Family Practice as dead last. hmmm....

 

[gujuDoc]

I'll have you know, Radiation oncology is one of the most highly coveted fields of today!!!! It is a major life style specialty with a very high pay. I'd say eww goes more to general surgery which involves a very high stress life when compared t o rad onco.

Rank Specialty Score
1 radiation oncology 42 EWW
2 general internal med 41 EWW
3 med oncology 40 EWW
4 hematology 39
5 gastroenterology 38
6 dermatology 38
7 psychiatry 38
8 occupational med 38
9 physical med & rehabilitation 38
10 neurology 38
11 rheumatology 37
12 pediatrics 37
13 ophthalmology 36
14 endocrinology 36
15 cardiology 36
16 nephrology 35
17 radiology 34
18 otolaryngology 34
19 pulmonology 34
20 urology 34
21 aerospace med 33
22 anesthesiology 33
23 neurosurgery 32
24 orthopaedic surgery 32
25 plastic surgery 31
26 preventive med 31
27 allergy & immunology 31
28 emergency med 31
29 colon & rectal surgery 31
30 infectious disease 31
31 pathology 30
32 thoracic surgery 29
33 obstetrics/gynecology 29
34 family practice 29
35 general surgery 27 My interest right now
36 nuclear med 25

 

[Soggun]

nice - rad onc, anesthesiology, peds, and radiology are probably my biggest interests right now (esp radiology). Sweet!

1 ophthalmology 44
2 anesthesiology 43
3 radiation oncology 43
4 dermatology 42
5 pediatrics 42
6 radiology 42
7 gastroenterology 41
8 hematology 40
9 urology 40
10 endocrinology 39
11 colon & rectal surgery 39
12 plastic surgery 38
13 otolaryngology 38
14 obstetrics/gynecology 37
15 physical med & rehabilitation 37
16 occupational med 37
17 general surgery 36
18 med oncology 36
19 rheumatology 35
20 general internal med 35
21 thoracic surgery 35
22 psychiatry 35
23 neurology 35
24 emergency med 34
25 infectious disease 33
26 nuclear med 33
27 orthopaedic surgery 33
28 pathology 33
29 neurosurgery 32
30 aerospace med 32
31 allergy & immunology 32
32 pulmonology 31
33 cardiology 31
34 preventive med 30
35 nephrology 29
36 family practice 27