What residency?

[adam73180]

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What's the best way to find out what field you want to go into?
I've done several rotations, talked to several different people, seen many different attending personalities, read about specialities, looked up statistics.

There has to be a better, maybe more systematic way of figuring this out.

I've heard of at least 2 different questionnaires you can take, but I've never run across them.

 

[Krazykritter]

Try the Careers in Medicine Website. https://services.aamc.org/careersinmedicine/index.cfm

I did not find it useful, but I already have a good idea of the field I what to head into. This website has tons of questionnaires & personality profiles to best 'match' you with a specialty. Our Dean gave us links to this site to try to help people on the fence about specialties as you seem to be. Hope it helps.

 

[Hard24Get]

What's the best way to find out what field you want to go into?
I've done several rotations, talked to several different people, seen many different attending personalities, read about specialities, looked up statistics.

There has to be a better, maybe more systematic way of figuring this out.

I've heard of at least 2 different questionnaires you can take, but I've never run across them.

Here's a test http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/

I found Careers in Medicine VERY useful as someone who was undecided.

Also, here's a great powerpoint that goes through the personalities and gives the best career fits for each personality group.

 

[Quix]

I just tried the med-ed.virginia.edu site, and my #1 match was peds; I'm not really sure that's what I want to go into. Hmm...

 

[Winged Scapula]

I just tried the med-ed.virginia.edu site, and my #1 match was peds; I'm not really sure that's what I want to go into. Hmm...

Hey - you stole my Avatar! (sorry for butting into the conversation)

 

[Hard24Get]

Hey - you stole my Avatar! (sorry for butting into the conversation)

Yeah, I was just thinking, 'hey, I thought he/she was already training for surgery..."

 

[Quix]

Yeah, but Kimberli has the "Happy" Cox, I have the "What did you do this time, newbie?" Cox.

 

[Nerdoscience]

Cox fight!!!


j/k. Okay, that was just really dumb. Why am I posting this?

 

[DHMO]

I just tried the med-ed.virginia.edu site, and my #1 match was peds; I'm not really sure that's what I want to go into. Hmm...

I'll throw a personal anecdote in here. I took ones of those tests during my first year and it put radiology at the top of my list. At the time, I had never even thought of doing it as a specialty, and thought to myself, "this test is way off." About 2 years later, I am about to apply for residency in radiology.

 

[Nerdoscience]

I've got one too. I took it and it said I should go into PM and R. And now, 3 years later, oh wait. I'm a Neuro resident now. Close enough.

 

[Hard24Get]

I never attached the powerpoint link...

http://www.med.mun.ca/medcareers/do...al Specialties_Ada Shave_complete version.ppt

To echo what the others said, those things are eerily accurate. Never thought of EM, now I live and breathe it 😍

Also, here's a great powerpoint that goes through the personalities and gives the best career fits for each personality group.

 

[adam73180]

Try the Careers in Medicine Website. https://services.aamc.org/careersinmedicine/index.cfm

I did not find it useful, but I already have a good idea of the field I what to head into. This website has tons of questionnaires & personality profiles to best 'match' you with a specialty. Our Dean gave us links to this site to try to help people on the fence about specialties as you seem to be. Hope it helps.

I went to this site, did not find it helpful at all. They want you to write ESSAYS about what you like and dislike, and it doesn't appear that anyone but you reads them. Who has time to do this?

 

[Hard24Get]

I went to this site, did not find it helpful at all. They want you to write ESSAYS about what you like and dislike, and it doesn't appear that anyone but you reads them. Who has time to do this?

Yeah, I didn't do the essays. But they have lots of quizzes and specialty info that you can take advantage of, and you can do a decision matrix once you have narrowed things down. It's not ONLY essays, but you can glance at the prompts to get you thinking.