6. MB personality type
• There are no wrong answers because there is
no wrong personality type.
• It is just a way to know yourself and work well
with others in your team if your team
members are amenable to sharing their
personality types with you.
• If you are a strong I, do not be an Internal
Medicine physician who has to talk all the
time
7. Trait Short Hand Trait Short Hand
Introvert
Looses energy on interaction
with people
Sensing
Pay attention to data being
collected by 5 senses and direct
experience.
Use conscious mind rather than
trusting subconscious
Detail Oriented
Extravert
Gains energy from people
Intuiting
Process data more deeply than
sensors and happy to trust their
sub conscious spot patterns and
high level view as opposed to
digging into details
Thinking
Decide primarily logic
Judging
Structured way , organizing their
work to achieve their goals
Feeling
Decide primarily – social
considerations
Perceiving
Perceive structure as restricting
rather than enabling.
8. Trait Needs and Perceptions Trait Needs and Perceptions
Introvert
Need to work alone
Prefer depth rather than breadth
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Extroverts may think them
egocentric and passive
Sensing
Like logic and pursue things in a
clear sequence
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Frivolous and short sighted
Extravert
Seek variety and like working with
other people
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Introverts may perceive them as
Shallow and pushy
Intuiting
Acquire new skills and work at
strategy level
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Impractical, theoretical & lacking
determination
Thinking
Task oriented and seek to create
clear value. Brief and business like
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Cold and heartless
Judging
Decide quickly and clearly and
work to get the job done
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Rigid and opinionated
Feeling
Sociable and people oriented
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Unreliable and emotional
Perceiving
Avoid or put off decisions and like
exploration of problems
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Aimless drifters
9. Trait Ways to work with effectively Trait Ways to work with effectively
Introvert
Give time for trust to develop
Using polling and written work for input
ask their opinion
Do not assume lack of interest
Sensing
Show evidence
Be practical and have a well thought out
plan
Show logical series of steps
Extravert
Show energy and enthusiasm
Respond quickly without pauses
Allow talking out loud without obvious
conclusions
Communicate openly – do no censure
Intuiting
Present ideas & global concepts first
When an idea or hypothesis is presented,
don’t ask for details. Accept at face value
as a working hypothesis
Be patient, work may come in spurts of
high energy and
Encourage imagination
Thinking
Be brief and concise and logical
Be intellectually critical and objective Judging
Present a timetable and stick to it
Allow time to prepare
Show achievements and results
Feeling
Give time for trust
Be friendly
Show how ideas will affect people and
what people’s reaction will be ( 400
Gloves)
Perceiving
Give time for trust
Bring in new ideas and possibilities
Allow time for creativity
10. MBTI Career Paths MBTI Career Paths
ISTJ
Hira
Trustee or inspectors
Medico-legal
Forensic pathologist
Radiologists, Health IT
ISFP
Artist
ISFJ
Ramsha
Conservator Protector
Medical Activism ISTP
Artisan Crafter
ESTJ
Supervisor
Surgeons
Medical admin
ESFP
Entertainer – Healthcare Journalism or
TV
ESFJ
Farhan
Seller
Internal Medicine
Healthcare related sales
ESTP
Amna
Promoter
Healthcare related Sales
INFP
Insha
Questor Healer
Pain medicine
Palliative medicine
INTP
Architect
INFJ
Misbah
Noor
Author counselor Social Worker
Psychiatry
INTJ
(Hasban Fatima Raza
Zerva
Scientist – Researchers
ENFP
Azka
Journalist Champion
Patient Advocate within a
hospital system
ENTP
Inventor – How to do something
better?
Medical devices, diagnostics
ENFJ
Haania
Maria
Teacher
Academic medicine
ENTJ
(Waqar, Zainab,
Mashhood, Qudrut)
Fieldmarshal
Medical Admin
11. Medicine
•Academic
•Mainly Clinical
•Mainly
Research
•Private Practice
Industry
•Big Pharma
•Biotech
•Med tech
•Diagnostics
•Devices
•Health
Informatics
Health Admin
•Hospitals
•Outpatient
chains
•Pharmacies
Public Health
•Healthcare
Advocacy
•Occupational
Medicine
Medicine
and
Specialties
Surgery
and
Specialties
Neuro-
psych
specialties
GYN and
OB
EYE ENT and
Oral Surgery
Targeted
Therapies
Choices
12. Who am I?
• Strengths
– Play to your strengths. You are never going to get anywhere by
compensating for challenging aspects of your personality.
• Challenges
– Compensate enough that they are not a hindrance and come to
peace with them
• What stimulates me?
• What gives me satisfaction?
• What are my restraints?
– Work life balance
– Responsibilities
– Geography
