We often assume certain personality types go along with certain specialties. When students are making choices, we may try to guide them into specialties that suit their personality. Is there really a “surgical personality”? A “type of person who would make a good family doctor”?
This paper looks at 3 independent studies of “emotional intelligence” in medical students and linked this to their choice of specialty. Emotional intelligence refers to empathy and emotional connectedness, and there exist a number of validated measurement tools.
Across all 3 studies, using different measurement tools, in different medical schools, and dividing specialty choice in different w ays (primary care vs. specialty and technical-surgical specialties vs. others) no significant differences were found in emotional intelligence between students and their choice of specialty.
Bottom line for me: I’ll stop using student personality as a factor in coaching them toward certain specialties.
Borges, Stratton, Wagner, Elam in Medical Education 2009; 43: 565-572.
Dr. Karl Stobbe
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