Personality and Medical Specialty-What is the Connection? In the early 1900’s, Carl Jung theorized that there are four primary psychological functions by which we experience the world: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. His wife and daughter, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, expanded this theory to create a personality question that would eventually turn into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in 1962. This test produces a combination of four dichotomies. These four dichotomies are: 1. Extraversion vs. Introversion 2. Sensing vs. Intuition 3. Thinking vs. Feeling 4. Judging vs. Perception Most people are familiar with this test and know that the test produces a four letter personality type. For example, if you are ESTJ, that means you are primarily a sensing, thinking, judging extrovert. There are 16 different personality types in all. Free Medical Specialty Quiz These personality tests have often been used to help decide which career path someone should follow and the field of medicine is no different. Even though some joke that most doctors have a “type A personality”, the personality profiles of physicians span all 16 of the different Myers Briggs personalities. This is mainly because personality and medical specialty often go hand in hand because different medical specialties require different types of people. Here are the results of a study that observed the Myers Briggs personality types and the associated medical specialties: Introverted–Sensing–Thinking–Judging (ISTJ) Dermatology Obstetrics-gynecology Family practice Urology Orthopedic surgery Introverted–Sensing–Feeling–Judging (ISFJ) Anesthesiology Ophthalmology General practice Family practice Pediatrics Introverted–Sensing–Thinking–Perceptive (ISTP) Otolaryngology Anesthesiology Radiology Ophthalmology General practice Introverted–Sensing–Feeling–Perceptive (ISFP) Anesthesiology Urology Family practice Thoracic surgery General practice Introverted–Intuitive–Feeling–Judging (INFJ) Psychiatry Internal medicine Thoracic surgery General surgery Pathology Extroverted–Sensing–Thinking–Judging (ESTJ) Obstetrics-gynecology General practice General surgery Orthopedic surgery Pediatrics Extroverted–Sensing–Feeling–Judging (ESFJ) Pediatrics Orthopedic surgery Otolaryngology General practice Internal medicine Extroverted–Intuitive–Feeling–Perceptive (ENFP) Psychiatry Dermatology Otolaryngology Pediatrics Introverted–Intuitive–Thinking–Judging (INTJ) Psychiatry Pathology Neurology Internal medicine Anesthesiology Introverted–Intuitive–Feeling–Perceptive (INFP) Psychiatry Cardiology Neurology Dermatology Pathology Introverted–Intuitive–Thinking–Perceptive (INTP) Neurology Pathology Psychiatry Cardiology Thoracic surgery Extroverted–Sensing–Thinking–Perceptive (ESTP) Orthopedic surgery Dermatology Family practice Radiology General surgery Extroverted–Sensing–Feeling–Perceptive (ESFP) Ophthalmology Thoracic surgery Obstetrics‐gynecology Orthopedic surgery General surgery Extroverted–Intuitive–Thinking–Perceptive (ENTP) Otolaryngology Psychiatry Radiology Pediatrics Pathology Extroverted–Intuitive–Feeling–Judging (ENFJ) Thoracic surgery Dermatology Psychiatry Ophthalmology Radiology Extroverted–Intuitive–Thinking–Judging (ENTJ) Neurology Cardiology Urology Thoracic surgery Internal medicine Check Our Quiz: The Best Specialty Suitable For Your Personality For Free Source
