ELi5: How/when do medical students/professionals decide what field of medicine to specialize in?

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Obviously there’s a number of factors that dictate this. I guess I’m more intrigued specifically by the fields that some might consider “less glamorous” than others.
Does one simply have a revelation- “hey I’m pretty good with guts, guess I’ll be a gastroenterologist”?
Or “I come from a long line of Podiatrists, so naturally I followed in my father’s footsteps.” (Pun intended)

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During Med School, they do rotations in different specialties. Then they choose the one they want to specialize in and apply to residencies in that specialty and spend a number of year in that residency getting the specialize training.

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