According to a published report by the Royal College of Physicians, the number of female doctors in the UK will increase highly within the next ten years. Right now, 60% of medical students and 40% of doctors are female. They expect that by 2013 most GPs will be women and in hospitals more and more women will enter the work field. This could result in several problems. First of all, all 60% of female medical students will most likely choose specialties like General Practice, psychiatry and public health. This means that there can become a shortage of other doctors in departments like surgery and cardiology. Another problem can be that men do not feel comfortable with a female doctor, but they simply have no choice because there are only a few male doctors. There is also still a problem with the typical doctor’s image. If you ask anyone to describe a typical, trustworthy doctor, they will probably describe a middle aged male with glasses and grey hair. This means that the image of a good doctor needs to be modernized because there will be more and more female doctors in hospitals.
In my opinion it is not a really big issue that the number of female doctors is increasing. I do believe that men and women have different qualities, also in their profession. But I do not think that men or women are better doctors. This means that if most doctors are female, there should not be any difference with years before when we had more male doctors. I understand that it could be a problem that we will have a lot more psychiatrists than surgeons in ten years. But on the other hand, I think there will always be men as well that choose this profession in the future, even when there are more women that does not mean that there will be women only. If it would really be a problem that there are not enough diverse doctors, universities could promote specific studies like cardiology and surgery to attract more female students.
Female Power to the top, I would say according to this article. Would it really be a big problem if there were only female doctors? I do not think so, because women are more caring so I can understand that they want to become a doctor. Second I agree on you that there always will be males attending these kind of studies and professions. Let us break the tradition together!
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