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- G Zimny, K V Iserson, and C Shepherd.
- JACEP. 1979 Apr 1;8(4):147-9.
AbstractA Medical Specialty Preference Inventory (MSPI) containing 199 items relating to the practice of medicine was developed through ratings by a national sample of over 1,000 board certified physicians in internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, and family practice. Sixty-one emergency physicians completed the MSPI for emergency medicine. Scores on the emergency medicine characterization were compared with those of the six specialties. Results showed emergency medicine most similar to surgery and least similar to psychiatry, although the similarity to surgery was two standard deviations below the mean overall surgery score. A more extensive and systematic effort to characterize emergency medicine using the MSPI rating system could create a national representative factorial characterization of emergency medicine to be used by medical students and physicians when choosing a specialty.
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