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The results reveal significant deviations in personality traits among medical students, characterized by higher preferences for Extraversion, Intuition, Feeling, and Judging. Notably, the study identifies that students matching into surgical fields exhibit a higher propensity for Thinking traits, while male students displayed a higher percentage of Thinking tendencies compared to their female counterparts. 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