... at least according to this old Medical Specialty Aptitude Test from the University of Virginia.
And Cardiology? Well, it was in the top ten.
I wonder if this has ever been validated?
-Wes
PS: Beware: the test has 130 questions, but they're easy - kind of - you'll see.
Off, off topic.
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Took the test and it was somewhat close. I am a hospice and palliative medicine doctor and while it did not appear that palliative medicine was a choice of specialty (maybe because of the age of the book/test), it encouraged me to seek out medical oncology and psychiatry. Both of which have similar broad skill sets related to palliative medicine.
ReplyDeleteNephrology tied with Infectious Diseases for me. Go figure. I can't imagine actually DOING either of these jobs, although I find these fields interesting. Cardiology came in about #5.
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i should have been an occupational medicine doc. I don't even know what they do. Internal medicine came in 35 out of 36, probably because I said I don't have any desire to follow patients long term and I like having a fixed schedule.
ReplyDeleteNo hospitalist medicine as a choice.
Radiology & pathology for me; I guess my dislike of people seeped through.
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