Take the Specialties Online Test...

[Jon Davis]

Since the cardiology page is open in my book here is an example . . .

Cardiologists tend to:

"Enjoy complex problem solving"
"Have manual dexterity"
"Be energetic"
"Value independence highly"
"Be willing to work long hours"
"Be uncomfortable with poorly defined problems"
"Be interested in people"
"Like gadgets"
"Become bored with repetitve activity"
"Be serious and determined rather than easy going"

Damn, cardiology IS for me.

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[FictionalGirl]

My list was weird... it listed everthing, then i think continued listing in reverse, SO.... nephrology was rated my #1 and #32 i think choice.
Emergency med my #16 and my #40 .... so not exactly backwards.. just... weird... I'm not all that interested in kidneys. Oh, well.

I guess i'll just have to defy the test and continue my interest in sleep and pain.

 

[C.P. Jones]

so i got occupational med as my number 1.....what is this? i looked it up, and it said aerospace med is a specialty of it...yet aero ranked in the bottom half of my list...WEIRD

but i really need to look into this stuff b/c all of it is interesting to me I CAN'T CHOOSE can i just specialize in everything? except colon and rectal surgery, i'm ok not going into that....that sentence is kinda funny and gross....sry, i don't have a backspace button

 

[Jwax]

I bolded everything I've considered... happily enough, emergency med is my #1 and it tied for first. I'm not even really sure what an endocrinologist does... I'll look it up. Plastic surgery is probably at the bottom of my list of specialties, which is neat since it scored that here, too.

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

 

[lropp]

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

 

[deuist]

Here are some other websites:

-- The American Board of Medical Specialties has a description of how to pick a field: http://www.abms.org/which.asp

-- The AAMC has a smaller page dedicated to the same topic: http://www.aamc.org/students/cim/start.htm. Your school may also have given you a Careers in Medicine password.

-- Finally, SUNY at Buffalo has a quiz to match your personality with a particular specialty: http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/interior.htm?self-assessment.htm. Also, the University of Virginia has its own quiz: http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/. These two websites give different results; so you should interpret the results as you wish. Just for laughs, there's also this quiz on Geocities: http://www.geocities.com/iqhometest/doctorb.html.

 

[NCF145]

1 pathology 48
2 nuclear med 48
3 neurosurgery 47
4 neurology 46
5 preventive med 46
6 plastic surgery 46
7 nephrology 46
8 pulmonology 45
9 allergy & immunology 45
10 radiation oncology 44
11 infectious disease 44
12 thoracic surgery 44
13 general surgery 44
14 otolaryngology 44
15 rheumatology 43
16 occupational med 43
17 aerospace med 43
18 hematology 43
19 colon & rectal surgery 43
20 urology 43
21 endocrinology 43
22 cardiology 43
23 med oncology 42
24 anesthesiology 42
25 physical med & rehabilitation 42
26 radiology 42
27 orthopaedic surgery 42
28 ophthalmology 41
29 obstetrics/gynecology 41
30 psychiatry 41
31 dermatology 40
32 general internal med 40
33 emergency med 38
34 gastroenterology 37
35 pediatrics 36
36 family practice 34

I guess neurosurgery might be for me after all.

 

[NCF145]

I just did this survey: http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDEN...-assessment.htm. It was a lot shorter than the original quiz. Here are my results in order of best fit.

Neurological Suregery 49.85
Thoracic Surgery 54.04
Vascular Surgery
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Gastroenterology
Plastic Surgery 60.39
Pediatric Surgery
Sports Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgery
Otolaryngology
Radiation Oncology
Anesthesiology 64.62
Urology
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
General Surgery
Emergency Medicine
Cardiology
Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Ophthalmology
Dermatology
Nephrology
Neurology
Medical Oncology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Hematology
Pediatrics
Family Practice
Pathology
Allergy and Immunology
Rheumatology
Child Neurology
Radiology - Diagnostic
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Geriatric Medicine
Preventive Medicine
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Medical Genetics
Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Looks like I'm pretty consistent with neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, and plastic surgery. Sounds good to me.

 

[Jon Davis]

Using the survey from Buffalo:

Plastic Surgery
Otolaryngology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Ophthalmology
Sports Medicine
Dermatology
Urology
Gastroenterology
Radiation Oncology
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Neurological Suregery
Cardiology
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Pediatric Surgery
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
General Surgery
Vascular Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Neurology
Nephrology

Not bad.

 

[romict]

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

The bold are my interests, mainly surgical fields but not sure which one I could see myself doing yet. I really like trauma surgery but i don't think that was an option on the test. NEVER WOULD I BE AN OB/GYN, the test is wrong!!

 

[Apparition]

Interests are bold, sort of close.

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

 

[DropkickMurphy]

Perhaps we are all missing something- that the real use of these should be to make us look at options we have not yet considered. So many of us are going with the "mainstream" specialties, where as many of us ranked highly with things that are not even on our radar. Just a thought.....any comments?

 

[jebus]

Perhaps we are all missing something- that the real use of these should be to make us look at options we have not yet considered. So many of us are going with the "mainstream" specialties, where as many of us ranked highly with things that are not even on our radar. Just a thought.....any comments?

Your maverick ideas are getting on my nerves. Seriously, that's a great point. I had some things high on my list that I had never heard of
5 occupational med
6 aerospace med
7 rheumatology (the google defn: the study of rheumatic diseases... thanks.)
On the other hand, my interest in Nephrology is wholly personal: my brother's had 3 kidney transplants and the first one (the only one that failed) was from my father. My brother was never given a chance to be an underwear model with all those scars on his belly. I know I should look into other things, but Nephrology has seduced me like a Siren's song.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

Things I never thought of seriously until this:
6 allergy & immunology 49
14 nephrology 47
18 ophthalmology 46
19 rheumatology 46
20 nuclear med 46
21 urology 45
27 aerospace med 44
29 preventive med 43

 

[Severus]

The results seem to be leaning towards surgery.


Rank Specialty Score
1 thoracic surgery 49
2 plastic surgery 44
3 nuclear med 43
4 general surgery 42
5 neurosurgery 42
6 infectious disease 41
7 radiology 40
8 preventive med 39
9 aerospace med 39
10 pathology 39
11 nephrology 39
12 pulmonology 38
13 occupational med 38
14 neurology 37
15 physical med & rehabilitation 37
16 obstetrics/gynecology 37
17 cardiology 36
18 emergency med 36
19 otolaryngology 36
20 orthopaedic surgery 36
21 urology 35
22 anesthesiology 35
23 allergy & immunology 35
24 hematology 35
25 colon & rectal surgery 34
26 radiation oncology 33
27 endocrinology 32
28 rheumatology 32
29 psychiatry 32
30 ophthalmology 31
31 gastroenterology 29
32 dermatology 29
33 general internal med 27
34 med oncology 27
35 pediatrics 27
36 family practice 25

 

[OwnageMobile]

Well, who knows. Bold sound cool to me.

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

 

[Nikki2002]

pediatrics and urology.......wtf!! lol

 

[-Goose-]

Thoracic Surgery-35.23
Sports Medicine
#2 Plastic Surgery- 38.46
#1 Orthopaedic Surgery- 40.3
Gastroenterology
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Anesthesiology
Neurological Suregery
#4 Otolaryngology-43.25
Vascular Surgery
#5 Urology
#3 Pediatric Surgery- 45.83
Ophthalmology
Cardiology
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
General Surgery
Radiation Oncology
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Vascular and Interventional Radiology- 58.61
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Nephrology
Neurology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Pediatrics- 77.89
Hematology
Allergy and Immunology
Medical Oncology
Family Practice
Rheumatology
Pathology
Internal Medicine
Child Neurology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Infectious Diseases
Radiology - Diagnostic- 116.64
Preventive Medicine
Geriatric Medicine
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical Genetics
Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry


...

 

[indo]

#1 for me was ob/gyn and #2-#7 were various surgery specialties. Weird ehh?

 

[-Goose-]

#1 for me was ob/gyn and #2-#7 were various surgery specialties. Weird ehh?

ob/gyns do a considerable amount of surgery (nasty stuff, though, imho)...


this thread would be interesting to look back on in ~4 years.

 

[CircleTheDrain]

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

 

[DropkickMurphy]

ob/gyns do a considerable amount of surgery (nasty stuff, though, imho)...


this thread would be interesting to look back on in ~4 years.

Duly noted, I'll add it to my list of threads to keep up on.....

 

[GoodEats]

pretty interesting because i've always been very interested in the top two, and recently have been leaning towards a pediatrics specialty (neurodevelopment or ortho).

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

 

[SharpieMarker]

matched pretty well.

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

 

[Flopotomist]

Hmm.. I too ended up with occupational medicine as my #1 - what the heck is that?

 

[gdbaby]

Hmm.. I too ended up with occupational medicine as my #1 - what the heck is that?

Holy crap I did too!!! I didn't even want to post on here becaue I didn't get a cool one like neuro or something. Thanks Flop, you are a better man than I.

 

[jetproppilot]

Does your preferred specialty match up??? Please share what it says you should do and if it's anywhere close to what you want!

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

I'm bored tonite...took the test...

I'm an anesthesiologist 9 years outta residency.. very content....

the test ranked gen surg #1 for me...

I'd rather work at Taco Bell than do that.

So much for the test.

 

[Sweetlill1]

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

My interests are in bold... I am very interested in Pediatrics so it is interesting that it is listed first. The test kept asking me the same questions over and over... not interested in surgery at all, so glad that it was not very high.

 

[C.P. Jones]

Holy crap I did too!!! I didn't even want to post on here becaue I didn't get a cool one like neuro or something. Thanks Flop, you are a better man than I.

let's start our very own future occupational doctors club! only ppl w/ occ. med as #1 allowed! First on our agenda...finding out what occupational medicine is...

 

[C.P. Jones]

Occupational medicine is the branch of clinical medicine most active in the field of occupational health. In the United States it is one of the three medical specialties (also including Aerospace Medcine and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine) encompassed by the ABMS recognized specialty of Preventive Medicine. Its principal role is the provision of health advice to organisations and individuals to ensure that the highest standards of health and safety at work can be achieved and maintained. Occupational physicians must have a wide knowledge of clinical medicine and be competent in a number of important areas.

Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well being of workers in all occupations; the prevention among workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; placing and maintenance of a worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological equipment and, to summarise, the adaption of work to man and of each man to his job.

- Wikpedia

idk if this is what i'm actually looking for in the future....and i think it will be hilarious if this is what i end up doing!

 

[teeney6]

Interesting... Too bad I could see myself doing just about anything at this point. Never done that test before. Did anyone else get annoyed that they kept asking the same questions in different ways? Maybe I was just annoyed because I found myself answering some of the same questions differently...

1 preventive med 48
2 hematology 48
3 dermatology 48
4 allergy & immunology 47
5 gastroenterology 47
6 endocrinology 47
7 radiology 47
8 physical med & rehabilitation 47
9 pediatrics 47
10 ophthalmology 46
11 nuclear med 46
12 neurology 46
13 occupational med 46
14 rheumatology 46
15 emergency med 46

 

[gdbaby]

Occupational medicine is the branch of clinical medicine most active in the field of occupational health. In the United States it is one of the three medical specialties (also including Aerospace Medcine and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine) encompassed by the ABMS recognized specialty of Preventive Medicine. Its principal role is the provision of health advice to organisations and individuals to ensure that the highest standards of health and safety at work can be achieved and maintained. Occupational physicians must have a wide knowledge of clinical medicine and be competent in a number of important areas.

Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well being of workers in all occupations; the prevention among workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; placing and maintenance of a worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological equipment and, to summarise, the adaption of work to man and of each man to his job.

- Wikpedia

idk if this is what i'm actually looking for in the future....and i think it will be hilarious if this is what i end up doing!

I read this def too. Didn't it sound like Occ Medicine was a little to close to the Marxist capitalism nightmare: it would be our job to maintain healthy workers with a strong sense of false consciousness so as to keep them happy in their alienated labor? Now that's something I could get excited about--HA!

 

[kumark13]

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

 

[deleted77919]

I read this def too. Didn't it sound like Occ Medicine was a little to close to the Marxist capitalism nightmare: it would be our job to maintain healthy workers with a strong sense of false consciousness so as to keep them happy in their alienated labor? Now that's something I could get excited about--HA!

A close friend of mine has a father in occupational medicine. He did a few years of primary care before moving into occ. med. He has spent the last 10 yrs or so working for oil companies traveling all over the world examining clinics the oil companies set up at their far flung refineries as well as helping to direct health care policy in general for these companies. That's the type of thing (this particular) physician does in occupational medicine.

 

[ShyRem]

Ok. I took it about a year ago, and now I took it again. Last time pulmonology ranked highly, too. Interesting - don't know enough about it really. But I am interested in med onc, hematology, and EM. So far I have no interest in surgery, ortho, derm, OB, or peds (and actually I have a distinct disinterest in those fields right now). I think pulmonology and hematology ended up high on the list 'cuz I like gadgets.


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

 

[Dr.D-man]

I dont like this way of determining your "specialty of best fit." Anyone with some idea of what they want to do will conciously or subconciously rate the questions accordingly in hopes to manipulate the program and recieve a high score for their desired specialty. True results could be obtained only if the person knows nothing about the job description of any of the medical specialties or doesn't have any idea what they want to do. On the up side, it is a neat program.

 

[Dave_D]

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

Let's see, absolutely no to psych. I mean the least tangeable type of medicine and that's number one? I guess nuke would be ok but it really doesn't float my boat. I could see myself as an internist or neurologist but come on, I'm a computer guy. I'm good at math and problem solving so why do things like research not even rank and pathology come out so low? For those that care the specialties I was thinking of were internal, pediactrics, orthepedic surgery, cardiology, med research or maybe neurology.

 

[LizzyM]

Occupational medicine involves the care of people in the workplace. (Think factories of all kinds.) There are issues of injury and illness prevention as well as care of workers when an injury or illness occurs and then determining that workers are fit to return to work after an injury or illness. You see (or try to prevent) back injuries, carpal tunnel, poisoning by toxic chemicals, crush injuries, and the more mundane like influenza.
Rheumatology (someone asked) covers the rheumatologic diseases. Those include arthritis, lupus and sarcoidoisis -- basically the diseases of joints and connective tissue with a heavy dose of autoimmune diseases.