EP221: Finding Your Path: A Conversation with Dr. Anna Stagner

I agree with a lot of what you said.

I didn't know myself very well when I was a medical student, for sure.

And so choosing a specialty just seemed to be like, what are you interested in or not? I

remember.

At the end of med

school, they had us do the Myers-Briggs as a group.

I think it was just becoming a thing.

And we looked at a few tables of what specialties might fit with your personality type.

Yeah, something, or at least even just an exercise to make you think about that.

Exactly.

I spoke to two women who did training in the United Kingdom.

And they wrote a book about how to choose a specialty for registrars in the UK.

But I read their book and it does talk about what you're attracted to, like your personality.

I'll put a link to that book in the show notes for this.

It's called Career Planning for Doctors by Dr. Naomi Elton and Dr. Carolyn Elton.

They both have the same name, but they're not actually related.

They have some exercise in the book of things you can cut out and Because like you were saying, like people are like, you can make a lot of money and it's such a competitive special.

And so they have things like that.

Is it more important to you to make money, be stable? Because that's not a bad thing, right? Of course not.

I agree with a lot of what you said.

I didn't know myself very well when I was a medical student, for sure.

And so choosing a specialty just seemed to be like, what are you interested in or not? I

remember.

At the end of med

school, they had us do the Myers-Briggs as a group.

I think it was just becoming a thing.

And we looked at a few tables of what specialties might fit with your personality type.

Yeah, something, or at least even just an exercise to make you think about that.

Exactly.

I spoke to two women who did training in the United Kingdom.

And they wrote a book about how to choose a specialty for registrars in the UK.

But I read their book and it does talk about what you're attracted to, like your personality.

I'll put a link to that book in the show notes for this.

It's called Career Planning for Doctors by Dr. Naomi Elton and Dr. Carolyn Elton.

They both have the same name, but they're not actually related.

They have some exercise in the book of things you can cut out and Because like you were saying, like people are like, you can make a lot of money and it's such a competitive special.

And so they have things like that.

Is it more important to you to make money, be stable? Because that's not a bad thing, right? Of course not.