Female Surgeon: Case Study at Soetomo General Hospital Surabaya

DOI

10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

surgeon, woman surgeon, woman, intern

Abstract

The option to pursue a career as a specialist is the most widely chosen by a general practitioner. Although every specialist education program never required interns to have certain gender, however some courses have their own trend intern registries, such as surgical education programs that are dominated by man. Longer study periods, heavier educational burdens and more emergency cases make surgical department’s intern spent more time in the hospital than non-surgical’s intern. Given that interns are usually mature and most of them married, the decision to become a surgeon is certainly a big deal especially if the interns are woman. But even so there are also a handful of women who take intern in the field of surgery. The selection of social setting in Dr. Soetomo General Hospital under some facts that Dr. Soetomo General Hospital is the largest hospital in East Java which is the last reference hospital for eastern part of Indonesia and has complete specialist doctor's education program in surgical field. This study is a descriptive study, with qualitative analysis using social construction theory on the reality of Peter Berger. This study occured about 2 months and obtained 4 informants, dr. E and dr. I, both are interns of General Surgery Specialist Education Program, dr. A, intern of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Specialist Education Program and dr. S, intern of a Pediatric Surgery Specialist Education Program. From the results of this study, authors found the construction of woman who took intern in the field of surgery could be seen from the behavioral aspect that showed if they were prepared with all the risks that had been taken when choosing field of surgery and construction about surgeon. The decision to become a woman surgeon has created an objective social reality through 3 (three) simultaneous dialectical moments, Externalization which is the attitude of self-expression reinforces the existence of individuals in society, Objectivities is the interaction between woman surgeons with an institutionalized intersubjective world or experience, the Institutionalization that causes them to be aware and convinced that the surgeon is not a job that only men and the Internalization which is the process of self-identification of the woman physician into her socio-cultural world.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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