Medical Specialty Aptitude Test

took the test that eugene posted in his multiply site. http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/Home.cfm

very interesting, because before I started medicine, I had been inclining myself to take Oncology as my specialty. Recently, there are a lot of other choices that I'm now inclining myself into, like Internal Med, Gastro (i'm taking it as a sign kasi ung 2 cases namin sa MPPRC are all GI case, then decury facilitator is also a Gastroenterologist, tapos ung adviser namin sa FilChiMSA is also one), Lab Medicine like Micro and parasitology (ito lang ata ung subject na super okay ako) haha ;) and also Radiology (because of MPPRC)

Surprisingly, the results of this Aptitude Test, gave quite "accurate" results.

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

nakakagulat no? ung nasa top 4 ung mga inclinations ko.. surprisingly Oncology placed 10, and Infectious diseases (which i think un din ung parasitology and microbio) placed last. Dermatology? nakakatuwa, we haven't taken it up, we'll see sa 3rd year.

I was planning this.. I'll take Internal Medicine, then subspecialize as Gastroenterology then subsubspecialize as Colon cancer etc heheh ;)

oh well, have many 2 more years to go before I graduate, many time to think ;) baka sa 4th year (clerkship) magbago pa isip ko ;)