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<p></p><p> The increase of female physicians and its undeveloped supporting system can be one of the causes of physicians' shortage. Although physicians' marriage/family perceptions and their influences on career choices have been extensively studied, those of medical students are not fully understood. An anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted involving male/female medical students in years 2 and 5 at Gifu University School of Medicine. The results showed that many male/female students hoped to get married, have children, and continue to work in the future, but different perceptions were demonstrated between the sexes with regards to the partners' occupation, working style, and influences of family/marriage perceptions on students' specialty choice. The results suggest the presence of sex-related differences in perceptions among medical students. The survey indicates the necessity of early undergraduate education for a better mutual understanding of gender issues.</p>
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<p> For female physicians, it is important to nurture an environment that enables them to take advantages of support for child rearing as well as for their return to their original jobs. It is also critical for physicians, whether female or male, to receive education to recognize the professional/occupational missions of being a physician. Once they have received environmental support and mission clarification, they will be able to realize an uninterrupted career in order to attain their social contributions.</p><p> The Committee on Studies of Career Education for Female Physicians has set five learning objectives by examining the required abilities and capabilities of a physician.</p><p>The proposed five learning objectives are to acquire:</p><p>(1) Professional awareness of the missions of being a physician,</p><p>(2) Ability to make career plans,</p><p>(3) Flexibility to embrace diverse values of the profession,</p><p>(4) Appropriate attitudes for both those receiving and those offering the support, because it should be the responsibility of the medical community,</p><p>(5) Recognition of social gender differences and acquires the capability to deal with such differences.</p><p>All organizations related to medical education should promote these five learning objectives.</p>
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Throughout history,there are less female physicians in the society of ancient China.Why? How to interpret this phenomenon? However,the research concerned in this field is rather limited.Thus the purpose of this research was aimed at paraphrasing the doubtful phenomenon above.Based upon this idea,we had originally selected some representative female physicians to make analyses and investigation.The results indicated that the tradition concept-which man is dominating in the society may be the main reason to account for this social phenomenon.It was related as well to the education,the social consensus,the value judgment and the vocationally characteristic towards women.These may lead to numerous barriers for women to become real doctors.It seems that the finding in this research could provide more background information for the occupation of female.It may also stimulate the women to be more independent in the modern China.
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We examined issues in balancing professional obligations with family needs, especially parenting, in female physicians. Questionnaires were given to all female physicians who had graduated from Jichi Medical School. Of the 196 graduates, 155 responded (79.1%), and younger graduates accounted for a greater proportion of subjects. Although many female physicians did not live with their parents, female physicians or their parents were usually responsible for caring for children when they become ill. Many respondents demanded better access to day care and greater flexibility in accepting sick children. Female physicians should contribute to society using the knowledge and skills they acquired in medical school; to do so they need support systems in their workplace and child-care services.