What Myers-Brigg Type Indicator are you?

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What's your Myers-Brigg type?

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albertwhatjob

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I saw this poll in the Pre-Med forum and thought it would be really interesting to see what temperaments psychiatrists in general have. I am an INFP and, according to Freeman's book "Choosing A Medical Specialty," psychiatry and neuro are my best fits. What personality type do you have?

Here's a test if you're not sure:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
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theunraveler said:
i'm an "INTJ", wat does that mean?
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Here's a good intro to what the individual letters mean, and how the four letters together represent your personality type.

http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/mbintro.htm

To find out what your type "means," just do a google search for "intj" and you'll get a lot of results that analyze your type. For example, I found the following through a google search of "intj."

"More so than any other personality type, INTJs are brilliant when it comes to grasping complex theories and applying them to problems to come up with long-term strategies. Since this type of "strategizing" is the central focus and drive of the INTJ, there is a happy match between desire and ability in this type. Accordingly, the INTJ is happiest and most effective in careers which allow this type of processing, and which promote an environment in which the INTJ is given a lot of autonomy over their daily lives.

The following list of professions is built on our impressions of careers which would be especially suitable for an INTJ. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your best career match is among those listed.

Possible Career Paths for the INTJ:

* Scientists
* Engineers
* Professors and Teachers
* Medical Doctors / Dentists
* Corporate Strategists and Organization Builders
* Business Administrators / Managers
* Military Leaders
* Lawyers / Attorneys
* Judges
* Computer Programmers, Systems Analysts and Computer Specialists"
 
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albertwhatjob said:
I am an INFP and, according to Freeman's book "Choosing A Medical Specialty," psychiatry and neuro are my best fits. What personality type do you have?
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i'm an infp too, a very stereotypical one at that. but back in college i was an intj. since graduating, i've consistently been a strong infp. not sure what happened. in terms of how much i lean towards the categories, from what i can remember, i'm by far strongest in intuition, something like 80-90% on every quiz i've taken, closer to 50-50% on everything else... not 100% sure if i'll go into psych yet. but it's been on the list of specialties since i decided on med school, so we'll see once i get to my psych rotation.
 
so as an INTJ , wat areas of medicine is good for me?
 
theunraveler said:
so as an INTJ , wat areas of medicine is good for me?
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According to that same book, these are your top 5 specialties:
Psychiatry
Pathology
Neurology
Internal Medicine
Anesthesiology
 
what`s for INTP ? career options....
 
In case anyone is interested, much of the original work Isabel Meyers did to support some of her theories on temperament was in medical specialty choice. Some of her data is in her book, "Gifts Differing". Psychiatry (and psychology) tends to draw the intuitive types as the subject matter is more conceptual rather than detail oriented. It also tends to draw the introverted types based on the interpersonal, one-on-one interactions involved.
 
albertwhatjob said:
According to that same book, these are your top 5 specialties:
Psychiatry
Pathology
Neurology
Internal Medicine
Anesthesiology
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sweet, i always like psychiatry!!
 
What are the specialties listed for ISFJ?
 
This is not science... Look up your horoscope and you will find similar stuff. ;)
 
the last time i did this (which was years ago), i was INTP, but according to the link above, i am now INFJ. weird.
 
DrWuStar said:
the last time i did this (which was years ago), i was INTP, but according to the link above, i am now INFJ. weird.
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It's not that weird. The "types" are not fixed for life. For example, if you're anywhere close to the break point on one of the dichotomous scales, between T and F, say, changes in your life circumstances can change how you respond to the questions for that scale, and will change your "type" accordingly. For example, I was a pretty classic ISTJ in my 20s, but after having kids and experiencing a bit more of life, my S edged into an N, and my T got a lot closer to an F. (It also helped to get out of grad school and into clinical medicine!)
 
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I'm an INTJ pre-med...greetings fellow INTJ's, glad to seem I'm in good company. I'm looking at IM and neurology...although psychiatry definitely interests me.
 
I generally test as an INFP but have tested as an INTP before. Guess I'll have to look up what specialties that matches. From the totally unscientific method of reading SDN polls on this issue, it seems like most premeds and medical students are INTJ.
 
Holy crap, look at all the INTJs. You guys are making me feel a hell of a lot less special over here!
 
Last time I took this I was an INTJ. This time I'm INFJ...Not sure what happened. For health care, it says I should be a "psychotherapist/psychologist." I didn't see doctor.... :rolleyes:
 
Doctor Bagel said:
It appears that OPD is also an ISTJ. Maybe that's a pre-requisite for being a mod in the psych forum. ;)
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As I mentioned in post #14 above (TWO years ago! Have I really been here this long???) I gradually slipped from a classic ISTJ in my 20s into an INTJ when I last took the test.:)

Maybe now that Doc Samson is Dad Samson, his ISTJ-ness will soften a bit too. :)
 
Jeez, I didn't even look at the dates. I'm tempted to start up another thread in this vein, if only to see the breakdown of the current board members. Hmmmmmmmmm.
 
Where are all the extroverts out there??? (I'm an ENFJ)...
Interesting given that part of the 'extrovertism' stems from enjoying working with people, perfect for psych...
 
OldPsychDoc said:
As I mentioned in post #14 above (TWO years ago! Have I really been here this long???) I gradually slipped from a classic ISTJ in my 20s into an INTJ when I last took the test.:)

Maybe now that Doc Samson is Dad Samson, his ISTJ-ness will soften a bit too. :)
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So what happens when those of us who are already on the NF side of things become parents? Do we just become big balls of total sap? :)

My bad on not reading your post above about the change. I pretty much disregarded all the posts that weren't from this year.
 
Isabel Briggs Myers was my M1-M2 small group leader's grandmother (an internal med attending). She pegged me as a psychiatrist long before I did.

/Rockin' INFJ since 1999.
 
INF(J/P). Very close to the breaking point between the J and P; in fact, nearly 50/50. Slightly more "J"ish, though:)
 
I'm not a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a test.

I guess that hair-splitting gives me away as an INTP.
 
I tend to test INFJ, although I feel when reading the descriptions that I fall more INFP (I'm pretty close to the cut-off for P/J). So which is more acurate? Beats me. They both apply pretty well.
 
luft said:
I tend to test INFJ, although I feel when reading the descriptions that I fall more INFP (I'm pretty close to the cut-off for P/J). So which is more acurate? Beats me. They both apply pretty well.
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Yeah, I think the thing that's frequently missed with the Myers Briggs test is that all the factors are really a continuum. It's interesting to note from reading above that lots of us have factors where we're pretty close to the center line.

Now you need to be a P so you can join me as pretty much the lone P out here in the medical world. ;) I'm pretty much way over in P land except I always turn in stuff on time.
 
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INFJ here.. i was wondering what the top 5 specializations are for my type :)
 
I'm INTP, although I've been straying closer and closer to INTJ since I first started taking pre-med classes.
 
i'm an INFJ. What would be my specialties, please?
 
These kinds of tests always drive me crazy.

For example, #15: "You trust reason rather than feelings"
Well, I like to reason ABOUT my feelings and then make rational decisions based on whatever it seems will best serve the interests OF said feelings. Also, in my view, most of the reasoning done in this world is flawed and most feelings are fickle--so I don't really "trust" either one...

Or #54: "You try to stand firmly by your principles"
One of my principles in life, which I do stand rather firmly by, is not to be led astray by lots of silly principles. So how do I answer this?

And then there are all the questions about punctuality. Well, nowadays I am punctual to a fault because for many years I was unpunctual, and eventually I just became embarrassed about this. It wasn't like one day I woke up and was eager to get places on time though. Just in general, a lot of the time I try to ACT in a way that is contrary to my nature, so as to have fewer problems in life. But that makes it hard to answer these questions!

Anyway: ENFJ, whatever that means!
 
Interesting how many introverts we have here, especially since (I've heard) extroverts generally outnumber introverts by 3:1 in Western populations. The majority of voters here are INs (three top picks are INFP, INFJ, and INTJ, totaling 79 out of 145).

Seems kind of odd for a field that quintessentially involves "working with people," huh?

I've tested variously as an INTP, INTJ, and (once) ENTJ. I think I most often come out as INTP though.
 
I'm surprised that there are so many introverts in psych. Makes me think that there's hope for some people going into psych.
 
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