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Tomorrow’s the Medical careers Expo - where the different hospitals have an exhibition-type thing with their representatives there to take questions. Gotta be deciding (ALREADY??!!!) which specialty I’d wanna train in (e.g. if I train in Medicine I’ll be a Physician, if I train in Surgery I’ll be a Surgeon).

The mentor sent a timely link - The Medical Specialty Aptitude Test, which matches your personality to the type of specialty that would suit you…

Mine:

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

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

Must say it’s quite accurate - Med Onc is a specialty where you care for cancer patients, I’ve always liked talking to cancer patients, learning from them, reflecting with them what’s past and what’s to come. It’s one of those diseases where you’re suddenly thrown into having to ponder (with a mind often still healthy and not demented) upon the mortality and fragility of life.

Dermatology should not belong anywhere near the top of my list! I won’t want to look at skins and describe lumps and bumps for the next 30 years of my life thankyouverymuch. Was just telling a friend I’d rather be a teacher (haha that’s what I’d wanna be if I weren’t a dr by the way)…

Emergency medicine I love! Love the action in the department and the fact that you never know what sort of cases to expect as patients walk in. Just the odd shifts that make the lifestyle quite difficult, would definitely consider it more seriously if I didn’t plan to have a family!

Preventive med and Occupational med have never crossed my mind…

PAEDIATRICS!! i love kids i love kids - treat them not eat them (krys!).. Besides the fact that I think I can identify with them (and behave like them at times), there’s just something about being able to help a sick kid feel better. A kid who is unwell, somehow is just able to draw our care and love, compassion… even parents separated would for those moments put their hatred/differences/grievances aside and work together to help the kid get better. As if suddenly there’s an awakening of the GOOD inside each person - no matter how little, is magnified, to care. Maybe it’s their innocence, that kids should not deserve to suffer.

Maybe it’s instinctive within each parent’s heart, to want to take over, in whatever ways possible the suffering of the child.

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