Monday, October 10, 2005

Let's play the "Choosing a Specialty" Game! (Part 1)

So for a lack of a better time to do this, I figured I'd start the first round of the Choosing a Specialty game today, even though I am a first-year and have no business picking a specialty. This is more to see how things might change over the course of the next few years, and whether the place I'll end up is where I'd imagine I would be. From a list of specialties, I ranked them from 1 (absolutely no way I could do that) to 5 (I could definitely see myself doing that). So... here goes:

5 Allergy and Immunology
4 Anesthesiology
1 Colon and Rectal Surgery
3 Dermatology
3 Emergency Medicine
3 Family Medicine
4 Internal Medicine
2 Medical Genetics
2 Neurological Surgery
2 Neurology
4 Nuclear Medicine
2 Obstetrics and Gynecology
5 Ophthalmology
3 Orthopaedic Surgery
4 Otolaryngology
4 Pathology
2 Pediatrics
2 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
2 Plastic Surgery
4 Preventive Medicine
3 Psychiatry
4 Radiology
3 Surgery
2 Thoracic Surgery
1 Urology

So to recap, the only specialties that I gave 5's to are Allergy/Immuno and Ophthalmology. Quite a numbers of 4's though. And of course, I may just have no idea what I'm talking about. I guess I have a lot of time to think about it.

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