title: [The role of a day care center for sick children in the convalescent stage to enable female medical practitioners to successfully continue their careers].
abstract: From my experience of child rearing difficulties, when I decided to start a private practice, I planned to have a day care center for sick children in the convalescent stage in the same building to help working mothers, especially those employed in the provision of critical medical services to the community. Financial support was obtained from the city where the clinic exists, and the facility was built that satisfied the requirements of this purpose. I believe that the female surgeons are an especially important personnel resource of Japan's medical services, because surgeons are decreasing in number these days. However, sometimes, qualified medical practitioners, such as surgeons, have to give up their careers because of the difficulty of raising children and working at the same time, especially when their children become ill. The number of these types of day care centers should be increasing, along with necessary support systems to be established immediately, so that female professionals, most particularly in medical facilities, can continue successful careers.
authors.affiliation: Kizuki Clinic, Ritto, Japan.
authors.forename: Noyuri
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kizuki
mesh_terms: D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003289:Convalescence; D005260:Female; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010822:Physicians, Women; D012380:Role