"Medical Specialty Aptitude Test" -- 130 questions... try it out for fun! :)

[azerkail]

my first one was pulmonology... damn i wanted ER. lol

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[TriagePreMed]

LOL gave me pathology and family med. These are things I know for sure I would never want to do.

 

[TunaSub]

Psychiatry, Radiology, Pulmonology, Infectious Disease

hmmmm....

 

[GenusTide]

It was pretty close to being right on!!!! except I do not know anything about aerospace medicine


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

 

[Freigeist]

Top: Neurosurgery
Bottom: Family Medicine

these were right, but the stuff in between I don't agree with. Guess I'll have to get some pretty good Step 1 scores

 

[Dr. Ducky]

I've always been open to everything. I highly doubt the accuracy of a 130 question (where many were repeats) test. There are some here that I could definitely see myself doing though.

1 thoracic surgery 44
2 general surgery 44
3 pulmonology 43
4 radiation oncology 43
5 anesthesiology 42
6 hematology 42
7 gastroenterology 42
8 pathology 42
9 otolaryngology 42
10 ophthalmology 42
11 nuclear med 41
12 plastic surgery 41
13 urology 41
14 nephrology 41
15 rheumatology 41

 

[SpecterGT260]

anyone else getting the same questions over and over?

 

[SpecterGT260]

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

hmmmmm

 

[scarshapedstar]

1 psychiatry 49
2 nuclear med 47
3 pediatrics 46
4 radiology 46
5 rheumatology 45
6 nephrology 44
7 med oncology 44
8 gastroenterology 44
9 hematology 42
10 pulmonology 42

Psych?!?!?!?! Pretty sure I said I was a bad listener... well I've been thinking med-onc or even heme/onc for a while so this is fairly reassuring.

 

[vayntraubinator]

Why is my score so high for all these?!?!

Rank Specialty Score
1 pathology 50
2 occupational med 49
3 nuclear med 48
4 nephrology 48
5 infectious disease 48
6 hematology 47
7 obstetrics/gynecology 47
8 urology 47
9 thoracic surgery 47
10 general surgery 47
11 aerospace med 46
12 physical med & rehabilitation 46
13 preventive med 46
14 radiation oncology 46
15 med oncology 46
16 rheumatology 46
17 cardiology 46
18 general internal med 45
19 pulmonology 45
20 endocrinology 45
21 dermatology 45
22 neurology 45
23 neurosurgery 45
24 orthopaedic surgery 45
25 plastic surgery 45
26 pediatrics 44
27 radiology 44
28 allergy & immunology 44
29 family practice 44
30 colon & rectal surgery 43
31 anesthesiology 43
32 gastroenterology 43
33 psychiatry 43
34 ophthalmology 43
35 otolaryngology 43
36 emergency med 42

I don't get why pathology...

 

[LoLCareerGoals]

Rank Specialty Score
1 radiology 46
2 nuclear med 45
3 infectious disease 43
4 neurology 42
5 pathology 42

All these competitive? (noob here obv)

 

[dominicandoctor]

I got pediatrics... and I really dislike kids and im terrible at working with them.

Fail test.

 

[sirenomelia]

Some of the questions were repeated at least 2-4 times for me.

I had some repeated 7-8 times and at the top of my list it gave me the same score with ortho and renal- the two jobs couldnt be any more different.

 

[scarshapedstar]

I liked how 'are you okay with repetitive tasks?' came up like 8 times. I kinda expected the result to be 'Surprise! This is a test of your honesty and consistency!'

 

[Sephiroth]

I liked how 'are you okay with repetitive tasks?' came up like 8 times. I kinda expected the result to be 'Surprise! This is a test of your honesty and consistency!'

What if your response to that question slowly moves from very positive to negative over the course of many iterations?

 

[levodopa]

Colon and rectal surgery >_<

 

[octupus]

Aerospace med? don't even know what that is.
and peds? really?. but I'm not surprised surgery is so low on my list though.

Rank Specialty Score
1 pediatrics 48
2 aerospace med 45
3 occupational med 44
4 rheumatology 44
5 infectious disease 43
6 psychiatry 43
7 preventive med 43
8 dermatology 42
9 general internal med 41
10 hematology 41
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26 plastic surgery 36
27 ophthalmology 36
28 endocrinology 36
29 neurosurgery 35
30 otolaryngology 35
31 orthopaedic surgery 35
32 colon & rectal surgery 34
33 gastroenterology 33
34 urology 33
35 general surgery 31
36 family practice 31

 

[octupus]

Why is my score so high for all these?!?!

I don't get why pathology...

Haha, maybe you're fitted for anything and everything!
My range is 48 to 31. I must really like kids, but hate family practice?

 

[poshdoctor]

Wow I got Radiation Oncology for both!!!! (I gotta look into that more)

UVA
Rank Specialty Score
1 radiology 45
2 radiation oncology 44
3 dermatology 43
4 med oncology 43
5 gastroenterology 43
6 general surgery 43
7 urology 42
8 physical med & rehabilitation 42
9 nuclear med 41
10 nephrology 41
11 infectious disease 41
12 colon & rectal surgery 41
13 family practice 41
14 anesthesiology 40
15 allergy & immunology 40

Buffalo Results
Radiation Oncology
Gastroenterology
Neurology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Otolaryngology
Cardiology
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgery
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Pediatrics
Urology
Nephrology
Ophthalmology
Family Practice
Medical Oncology
Dermatology

I'm glad that Neurology is on Buffalo's list but bummed that EM is no where on either

 

[At0mic]

Expected gen surgery, but not cardio at all, nor did I expect neuro. But hey, ortho is on there, and so far that's my dream specialty.

1 cardiology
2 endocrinology
3 general surgery
4 neurology
5 pathology
6 radiology
7 gastroenterology
8 allergy & immunology
9 urology
10 orthopaedic surgery

Edit: For the Buffalo one, I got derm, optho, and otolaryngology as my top 3. My top 10 is almost completely different.

 

[Praefectus]

Pathology, Dermatology, Surgery, Surgery, Surgery, Surgery, Surgery...

The top two seem fairly inconsistent with the trend I saw in the next few.

 

[greg1184]

Took it three times. Radiology appeared 1,2,1 the three times I took it, and the one that it appeared #2, Nuclear medicine is #1. Is this thing sending me a message?

 

[SpecterGT260]

were you changing your answers each time or is there some background question bank?

 

[greg1184]

were you changing your answers each time or is there some background question bank?

The questions are the same. Some of the gray-area "it depends on the situation" questions I modified slightly just to see that I have the same interests based on my spectrum of interest.

I have been interested in radiology (and pathology) before I took the survey. So maybe there was some bias, who knows.

 

[SunsFun]

Meh, I am not convinced this test is useful.

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

 

[SpecterGT260]

Meh, I am not convinced this test is useful.

it isnt.... there is 1 very important question missing from it: Step 1 score

 

[dcsurgeon]

1 pathology 45
2 nuclear med 45
3 nephrology 45
4 med oncology 44
5 physical med & rehabilitation 44
6 occupational med 44
7 aerospace med 44
8 psychiatry 43
9 thoracic surgery 43
10 infectious disease 43
-------------------------------------------------------
27 ophthalmology 38
28 family practice 38
29 emergency med 38
30 dermatology 38
31 colon & rectal surgery 38
32 anesthesiology 38
33 cardiology 38
34 gastroenterology 38
35 otolaryngology 37
36 general surgery 37

Thoracic surgery being in my top ten makes me happy. Guess we'll find out in 10 years or so.

 

[catzzz88]

Three years later, does anyone have an interesting trend to report?

I'm laughing over here because the very last specialty on my 2012 list - pathology - is actually something I am pretty interested in (currently in my top 3) ... in the bottom five from 2012 is Emergency Medicine (also in my current top 3) lol not sure if that means that the test sucks or my personality changed completely in the the past 3 years?!

Anyone else?

 

[catzzz88]

my first one was pulmonology... damn i wanted ER. lol

LOL gave me pathology and family med. These are things I know for sure I would never want to do.

Psychiatry, Radiology, Pulmonology, Infectious Disease

hmmmm....

It was pretty close to being right on!!!! except I do not know anything about aerospace medicine

Top: Neurosurgery
Bottom: Family Medicine

these were right, but the stuff in between I don't agree with. Guess I'll have to get some pretty good Step 1 scores

I've always been open to everything. I highly doubt the accuracy of a 130 question (where many were repeats) test. There are some here that I could definitely see myself doing though.

anyone else getting the same questions over and over?

Rank Specialty Score
1 thoracic surgery 45
2 pulmonology 45
3 radiology 44
4 pathology 43
5 cardiology 43

hmmmmm

1 psychiatry 49
2 nuclear med 47
3 pediatrics 46
4 radiology 46
5 rheumatology 45

Psych?!?!?!?! Pretty sure I said I was a bad listener... well I've been thinking med-onc or even heme/onc for a while so this is fairly reassuring.

Why is my score so high for all these?!?!

Rank Specialty Score
1 pathology 50
2 occupational med 49
3 nuclear med 48
4 nephrology 48
5 infectious disease 48

I don't get why pathology...

Rank Specialty Score
1 radiology 46
2 nuclear med 45
3 infectious disease 43
4 neurology 42
5 pathology 42

All these competitive? (noob here obv)

I got pediatrics... and I really dislike kids and im terrible at working with them.

Fail test.

I had some repeated 7-8 times and at the top of my list it gave me the same score with ortho and renal- the two jobs couldnt be any more different.

I liked how 'are you okay with repetitive tasks?' came up like 8 times. I kinda expected the result to be 'Surprise! This is a test of your honesty and consistency!'

What if your response to that question slowly moves from very positive to negative over the course of many iterations?

Colon and rectal surgery >_<

Aerospace med? don't even know what that is.
and peds? really?. but I'm not surprised surgery is so low on my list though.

Rank Specialty Score
1 pediatrics 48
2 aerospace med 45
3 occupational med 44
4 rheumatology 44
5 infectious disease 43

Haha, maybe you're fitted for anything and everything!
My range is 48 to 31. I must really like kids, but hate family practice?

Rank Specialty Score
1 nuclear med 49
2 plastic surgery 48

Somehow I knew these would be my top two. I guess that's what you get for having a father that's a physicist and a grandfather that's a plastic surgeon.

Wow I got Radiation Oncology for both!!!! (I gotta look into that more)

UVA
Rank Specialty Score
1 radiology 45
2 radiation oncology 44
3 dermatology 43
4 med oncology 43
5 gastroenterology 43

Buffalo Results
Radiation Oncology
Gastroenterology
Neurology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Otolaryngology

I'm glad that Neurology is on Buffalo's list but bummed that EM is no where on either

Expected gen surgery, but not cardio at all, nor did I expect neuro. But hey, ortho is on there, and so far that's my dream specialty.

1 cardiology
2 endocrinology
3 general surgery
4 neurology
5 pathology

Edit: For the Buffalo one, I got derm, optho, and otolaryngology as my top 3. My top 10 is almost completely different.

Pathology, Dermatology, Surgery, Surgery, Surgery, Surgery, Surgery...

The top two seem fairly inconsistent with the trend I saw in the next few.

Took it three times. Radiology appeared 1,2,1 the three times I took it, and the one that it appeared #2, Nuclear medicine is #1. Is this thing sending me a message?

were you changing your answers each time or is there some background question bank?

The questions are the same. Some of the gray-area "it depends on the situation" questions I modified slightly just to see that I have the same interests based on my spectrum of interest.

I have been interested in radiology (and pathology) before I took the survey. So maybe there was some bias, who knows.

Meh, I am not convinced this test is useful.

Rank Specialty Score
1 occupational med 45
2 obstetrics/gynecology 45
3 infectious disease 45
4 radiation oncology 45
5 hematology 44

it isnt.... there is 1 very important question missing from it: Step 1 score

1 pathology 45
2 nuclear med 45
3 nephrology 45
4 med oncology 44
5 physical med & rehabilitation 44

Thoracic surgery being in my top ten makes me happy. Guess we'll find out in 10 years or so.

I want to hear updates people!! Three years down the road.... where are you?

 

[mistafab]

Top ten:

1 obstetrics/gynecology 43
2 dermatology 42
3 cardiology 42
4 nuclear med 41
5 general surgery 41
6 urology 41
7 occupational med 40
8 radiology 40
9 pathology 40
10 neurosurgery 40


I totally hate gyno!!

My plan -
High step 1: Pphthalmology
Mid-range score: Ophthalmology
low-range score: Ophthalmology

Worst comes to worse I think psychiatry and neurology are really cool as well. I do, however, want to cut eyeballs. Will look back on this in 4 years!

 

[ArizonaVet480]

 

[BeachBlondie]

#1: Orthopaedic surgery

Good. I've been doing ortho research for 6 years and, let's face it, they could use more ladies in the specialty.

 

[Fruitsryum]

lol i've never thought of doing radiology!

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

 

[octupus]

I want to hear updates people!! Three years down the road.... where are you?

Going into anesthesia which didn't even make it onto the list. Although I am still curious as to how one would get into aerospace medicine... maybe they need an anesthesiologist up there one day.

 

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[Dr.JD.House]

My top three 1.) Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2.) Pediatrics 3.)Neurology
I'm all over the place at this point, my interest changes daily. I don't even start med school until this fall, so I'm keeping an open mind to all options