Medical Specialty Aptitude Test

[bigdreamer#1]

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Hey all, long time user, very few post however. From time to time I see a thread which asks what specialty everyone is interested in. I too have been pondering this as I wait to matriculate.

Like most of us, I have some idea of the areas of medicine that strike me the most. However, I began to consider if my mentality and personality would be a more important thing to consider as to the best match for me. Different specialties are better suited to ceratain types of people over others. So I did a search to see if there was any type of apptitude test for this.

I found a site that offered a free online medical specialty aptitude test. Turns out, according to the results, that my personality better suits me for Radiology, Rad oncology and ER. I was interested in Surgery! Try it and take it for what it is, I wouldn't take it as the end all be all, but it is fun and may lend some insight!

Here it is: http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/


Have fun!

 

[doc jkrue]

Nice test. It confirmed that EM is number 1.
My top nimbers go as follows:

1 emergency med 45
2 pulmonology 43
3 nephrology 43
4 infectious disease 43
5 physical med & rehabilitation 43
6 pathology 43

 

[DD214_DOC]

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


interesting....

 

[Chronotropic]

it only matched me with 4 things.

1. Urology
2, Radiology
3. Thoracic Surgery
4. Gen Surgery

If thats the case I better start studying for boards now.

 

[DD214_DOC]

1 emergency med 45
3 radiology 44
4 nuclear med 43
8 dermatology 41
13 orthopaedic surgery 40
14 neurosurgery 40
18 aerospace med 39
22 radiation oncology 38
23 anesthesiology 38
27 otolaryngology 38
29 thoracic surgery 37
30 psychiatry 37
32 family practice 36
36 general surgery 32

This is after cutting away the junk I would never do.

 

[Dr JPH]

I've taken this test before and if you have a preconceived idea of what you THINK you would like to do, you can easily manipulate your answers to get that result.

I've gotten EM as my top choice every time I take it because subconsciously I answer based on what I think would fit ito that specialty.

Another thing...JKDMed: How can Peds and FP be so far apart on the scores? Doesnt make sense! 🙂

 

[Chris609]

Rank Specialty Score
1 nuclear med 47
2 infectious disease 46
3 rheumatology 45
4 pathology 45
5 radiology 44
6 occupational med 44
7 obstetrics/gynecology 44
8 hematology 43
9 pulmonology 42
10 dermatology 42
11 allergy & immunology 42
12 radiation oncology 41
13 colon & rectal surgery 41
14 anesthesiology 41
15 endocrinology 41
16 nephrology 41
17 thoracic surgery 41
18 gastroenterology 40
19 cardiology 40
20 emergency med 40
21 neurosurgery 39
22 aerospace med 39
23 plastic surgery 39
24 otolaryngology 39
25 orthopaedic surgery 39
26 ophthalmology 39
27 urology 39
28 preventive med 38
29 neurology 37
30 general surgery 37
31 psychiatry 36
32 physical med & rehabilitation 36
33 med oncology 35
34 general internal med 35
35 pediatrics 31
36 family practice 30

 

[Megalofyia]

1 thoracic surgery 48
2 pathology 45
3 nuclear med 45
4 infectious disease 44
5 neurosurgery 43
6 pulmonology 43
7 neurology 42
8 plastic surgery 42
9 otolaryngology 42
10 general surgery 42


Pediatrics was last, which is actually what I am kind of interested in, but I'd like to do a subspecialtiy in pediatrics.

 

[bigdreamer#1]

yeah JP, you could do that and gear your responses to what you want, obviously this is not a definitive test, but it is fun and interesting. I took it a couple of times and tried to be as honest as I could, result varied slightly, but generally there were serveral specialties that always came up in the top ten for me.

 

[OnMyWayThere]

That was a very good site. I like how it re-asks questions just to average out responses for accuracy. Thanks for sharing that!

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

 

[Chronotropic]

Originally posted by OnMyWayThere
That was a very good site. I like how it re-asks questions just to average out responses for accuracy. Thanks for sharing that!

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

Looks like someone likes their free time 😀

 

[Runtita]

1 radiology 42
2 psychiatry 42
3 pediatrics 40
4 pathology 38
5 preventive med 38
6 aerospace med 36
7 plastic surgery 36
8 physical med & rehabilitation 35
9 occupational med 35
10 thoracic surgery 34
11 general surgery 33
12 urology 33

Did everyone get pathology for #4?


😉

 

[Megalofyia]

Originally posted by Runtita

Did everyone get pathology for #4?


😉

Pathology was #2 for me. Apparently I don't like people or something.

 

[bansheeDO]

Mine looked like this. Funny thing is Peds and OB are my least favorite fields. Derm is first on my list followed by General Internal Medicine and Family Practice.

Rank Specialty Score
1 pediatrics 50
2 obstetrics/gynecology 50
3 med oncology 50
4 dermatology 50
5 colon & rectal surgery 46
6 gastroenterology 46
7 family practice 46
8 emergency med 46
9 nephrology 46
10 plastic surgery 46
11 rheumatology 46
12 pathology 46
13 general surgery 46
14 radiation oncology 46
15 psychiatry 44
16 occupational med 44
17 ophthalmology 44
18 anesthesiology 44
19 infectious disease 42
20 hematology 42
21 thoracic surgery 42
22 otolaryngology 42
23 nuclear med 42
24 general internal med 42
25 orthopaedic surgery 40
26 urology 40
27 radiology 40
28 aerospace med 40
29 preventive med 40
30 physical med & rehabilitation 40
31 pulmonology 38
32 neurology 38
33 neurosurgery 36
34 endocrinology 36
35 allergy & immunology 34
36 cardiology 32

 

[DORoe]

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

 

[Aaron Earles]

My list was quite surprising:

1 pediatrics 49
2 hematology 45
3 dermatology 45
4 radiation oncology 44
5 med oncology 44
6 gastroenterology 43
7 nephrology 43
8 radiology 43
9 ophthalmology 42
10 nuclear med 42
11 anesthesiology 42
12 general internal med 41

I was thinking about cardiology, actually, peds was not something that I would consider myself a good match. Oncology was a field that I definately did think I would go in to. Oh well. This was an interesting survey. Thanks for the post.

 

[Dr. Don]

hello all these are my top 4:

1 occupational med 47
2 pediatrics 44
3 rheumatology 44
4 physical med & rehabilitation 43


Question: What is occupational med? As far as how this test fits my future profession, I believe it's totally accurate. I am very interested in primary care, specially Pediatrics because of the impact one can make in a child's life not only through health care, but also as a guide and mentor....cool survey!

So what is occupational med? 😕

 

[that dr. jack]

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

i could see myself doing plastics, and FP and IM really don't do much, so the general idea seems to be good.

 

[RockandRolldoc]

This is by far the dumbest survey I've ever taken... I believe the "Pepsi Challenge" is more scientific and logical.

 

[Dr JPH]

Originally posted by RockandRolldoc
This is by far the dumbest survey I've ever taken... I believe the "Pepsi Challenge" is more scientific and logical.

I agree. 😀

 

[Odaroloc]

right on for me 🙂
Rank Specialty Score
1 thoracic surgery 49
2 nuclear med 48
3 general surgery 47
4 plastic surgery 47
5 infectious disease 47
6 cardiology 46
7 neurosurgery 46
8 pulmonology 46
9 obstetrics/gynecology 46
10 pathology 46
11 otolaryngology 44
12 hematology 44
13 nephrology 43
14 orthopaedic surgery 43

 

[haldane3]

Rank Specialty Score
1 pediatrics 47
2 gastroenterology 47
3 orthopaedic surgery 46
4 obstetrics/gynecology 46
5 general surgery 46
6 urology 45
7 neurosurgery 45
8 rheumatology 45
9 nephrology 45
10 pulmonology 44
11 endocrinology 44
12 infectious disease 44
13 hematology 44
14 neurology 44
15 occupational med 44
16 radiology 44
17 psychiatry 44
18 pathology 44
19 physical med & rehabilitation 44
20 plastic surgery 43
21 otolaryngology 43
22 nuclear med 43
23 ophthalmology 43
24 thoracic surgery 43
25 aerospace med 41
26 med oncology 41
27 preventive med 39


Interesting I guess...

 

[DSM]

Rank Specialty Score
1 thoracic surgery 44
2 psychiatry 42
3 aerospace med 42
4 urology 41
5 preventive med 41
6 general surgery 41
7 radiology 41
8 pediatrics 39
9 plastic surgery 39
10 occupational med 38
11 physical med & rehabilitation 36


No EM?????


🙁 🙁 🙁

 

[Chrisobean]

i only got 4 matches

thoracic surgery 39
general surgery 39
radiology 38
urology 37


the only one of these i have even considered is rads... weird.

i think when it asked the repeat questions, i put different answers, i couldnt remember! hehe

 

[DrQuinn]

WTF!

1 general surgery 44
2 occupational med 42
3 pediatrics 41
4 radiology 40
5 plastic surgery 39
6 pathology 38
7 psychiatry 37
8 preventive med 37
9 urology 37
10 thoracic surgery 36
11 aerospace med 35
12 physical med & rehabilitation 33

No EM!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? I couldnt' stand doing ANY of those except perhaps psychiatry. And this is after four years of medical school and 8 months of internship and I know that EM is the only specialty for me!!!!!!!!!!!

Q, DO

 

[DSM]

Originally posted by QuinnNSU
WTF!

1 general surgery 44
2 occupational med 42
3 pediatrics 41
4 radiology 40
5 plastic surgery 39
6 pathology 38
7 psychiatry 37
8 preventive med 37
9 urology 37
10 thoracic surgery 36
11 aerospace med 35
12 physical med & rehabilitation 33

No EM!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? I couldnt' stand doing ANY of those except perhaps psychiatry. And this is after four years of medical school and 8 months of internship and I know that EM is the only specialty for me!!!!!!!!!!!

Q, DO

Funny, our matches are almost the same...see mine a few posts above and I too want EM!!! Funny....

 

[DrQuinn]

Originally posted by deepsouthmedic
Funny, our matches are almost the same...see mine a few posts above and I too want EM!!! Funny....

Yeah, I saw. See, you should be flirting with ME in the Lounge.

😀

Q, DO

 

[DSM]

Originally posted by QuinnNSU
Yeah, I saw. See, you should be flirting with ME in the Lounge.

😀

Q, DO

*quickly bats eyelashes at Q*

 

[DoHzA]

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

 

[DrQuinn]

Originally posted by deepsouthmedic
*quickly bats eyelashes at Q*

*Removes bullet from Trinity's chest cavity, thereby completing the first closed thoracotomy and cardiac massage*

How is THAT for flirting.

Q, DO

 

[Amy B]

Where is primary care??????????? That is what I want to do.

Rank Specialty Score
1 occupational med 47
2 urology 46
3 ophthalmology 46
4 neurology 44
5 nephrology 44
6 rheumatology 43
7 nuclear med 43
8 pathology 43
9 otolaryngology 42
10 physical med & rehabilitation 42
11 pediatrics 41
12 general surgery 41
13 radiology 41
14 preventive med 40
15 plastic surgery 40
16 thoracic surgery 39
17 neurosurgery 39
18 pulmonology 39
19 obstetrics/gynecology 38
20 psychiatry 38
21 orthopaedic surgery 37
22 aerospace med 36
23 med oncology 36

 

[jantyme]

1. Radiology 48
2. Physical Med & Rehabilitation 48
3. Nuclear Medicine 48
4. Rheumatology 48
5. Pulmonology 47
6. Neurosurgery 47
7. Med Oncology 47
8. Infectious Disease 47
9. Hematology 47
10. General Internal Med 47
11. Dermatology 47
12. Psychiatry 47
13. Plastic Surgery 46
14. Neurology 46
15. Pathology 46
16. Cardiology 46
17. Nephrology 46
18. Gastroenterology 45
19. Endocrinology 45
20. Anesthesiology 45
21. Allergy & Immunology 45
22. Radiation Oncology 45
23. Opthamology 45
24. Occupational Med 45
25. Thoracic Surgery 45
26. Aerospace Med 44
27. Pediatrics 44
28. General Surgery 43
29. Preventive Med 42
30. Otolaryngology 42
31. Obstetrics/Gynecology 42
32. Colon & Rectal Surgery 42
33. Emergency Medicine 41
34. Orthopaedic Surgery 41
35. Urology 41
36. Family Practice 40

 

[bruinrab]

I always swore I'd never do peds or psych. And look where they ended up. 🙁 😕 I'm also not interested in doing just about any surgical subspecialty, or gi, or ob/gyn, or anything else that's starred.

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

 

[DSM]

Originally posted by QuinnNSU
*Removes bullet from Trinity's chest cavity, thereby completing the first closed thoracotomy and cardiac massage*

How is THAT for flirting.

Q, DO

MY HERO!!!!! 😍

 

[dollarbincommon]

1 radiology 42
2 nuclear med 39
3 neurology 39
4 general surgery 38
5 pathology 38
6 urology 38
7 pulmonology 38
8 dermatology 37
9 anesthesiology 36
10 allergy & immunology 36

This is strange. I'm not even into radiology or surgery. I really like pathology.

I wonder what general surgery, path, urology and pulmonology have in common to have the same score of 39?

 

[Pooh Chong]

1 pathology 46
2 radiology 45
3 infectious disease 45
4 nuclear med 44
5 neurology 44
6 occupational med 43
7 rheumatology 43
8 endocrinology 43
9 dermatology 43
10 general internal med 42
11 radiation oncology 42
12 med oncology 42
13 gastroenterology 42
14 ophthalmology 42


I figured I'd post mine since others were posting their results. I don't know what to say about the results...eh?