Combining work with your own interests is an excellent and direct route to a rewarding career. One tool commonly used in the UK to see how personal interests can affect specialty choices is Sci59. 

Sci59 is a career planning tool for doctors in training. It was developed to measure personal attributes and professional preferences, and match these to the characteristics needed to prosper in the 59 most common specialties, including general practice. It should help you work out how your interests can point you towards a rewarding career specialty. 

If you have not yet completed Sci59, contact your medical school or deanery who may be able provide you with access to this tool. Sci59 is freely available to members of the BMA. For information on how to access Sci59 go to: http://www.bma.org.uk/careers/careers_service/index.jsp.

On completion, you will be given a personalised printout, which lists ten specialties likely to suit you best and ten likely to suit you least. In addition, your printout will contain a graph showing how you scored on 12 different career-related dimensions.

Once you have your Sci59 results you can use the following tool.

Click here to start the interests tool