The meaning of a person's stay on Earth is to leave life behind. Children give each of us a real meaning of existence. The birth of a child is a great sacrament known to few. One such unit is the obstetrician-gynecologist.
Historical background
The profession of an obstetrician is one of the oldest medical professions. This is now the first assistant of a woman in labor is called an obstetrician, and before there was no such concept at all. In Kievan Rus, a woman who gave birth was called a midwife or midwife.
Ancient obstetricians did not have a special education, and the ability and skills of childbirth acquired gradually. This explains the rather frequent cases of death of a newborn or mother in those days. An end to the history of non-professional obstetricians was put by the Russian doctor P. Z. Kondoidi, who became the first founder of obstetric schools in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Since 1757, the profession of an obstetrician has taken on a new meaning and reached a new level of development.
Who is an obstetrician?
Obstetrician - a specialist in the field of medicine,specializing in basic and urgent care for women and newborns during labor and the postpartum period.
A modern obstetrician-gynecologist must have a completed higher medical education, know the features of the course of physiological and pathological processes in the female body that are associated with conception and pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum activities, diseases of the fetus and infant.
What qualities should an obstetrician have
To become an obstetrician you need:
1. Have the necessary special medical education. If the profession of an obstetrician is to assist a doctor during childbirth, it is not necessary to have a higher medical education, a diploma of secondary profile education will be quite enough. But in this case, there can be no question of any professional growth and career take-off. To become a doctor, you only need a high school diploma.
2. Match personal characteristics. The profession of an obstetrician is connected with people. The task of the obstetrician is to provide assistance to those who need it. Therefore, representatives of medicine in this area, first of all, must have certain qualities, among which:
- humanity;
- friendliness;
- cleanliness;
- punctuality;
- indulgence;
- sympathy;
- sociability;
- politeness;
- emotional resilience;
- poise;
- resourcefulness;
- analytical thinking;
- developed memory function.
The profession of an obstetrician: advantages and disadvantages
Any type of activity, any profession has its significant advantages and obvious disadvantages. Obstetrics and the obstetrician-gynecologist profession in particular are no exception.
The indisputable advantage of the profession is the fact that the obstetrician is the first person who is initiated into the mystery of the birth of a person. When a doctor accepts a child, hears his first cry, puts the baby to the mother's breast, he experiences inexpressible emotions, which are difficult to compare with anything else, probably impossible.
The profession of an obstetrician-gynecologist requires a certain amount of knowledge from a person that will be useful to him not only professionally, but also personally. Obstetrics is a universal area of medical activity, because representatives of this profession should be able to help both an adult and a child.
Unfortunately, not always the doctor and the expectant mother experience positive emotions. In recent years, there have been more and more cases of complications during pregnancy. This leads to stressful situations and nervous strain, which primarily affects he alth.
In addition, the disadvantages of the profession of an obstetrician include an irregular work schedule. Babies are born in the morning, afternoon, evening and night. The hospital always has an obstetrician on duty, who must remain alert at any time of the day. This, to some extent, infringes on his personalfreedom and space.
Legal and moral responsibility lies on the shoulders of the obstetrician. He is responsible for the life of mother and baby. Such responsibility is a heavy burden that not everyone can bear.
How much does an obstetrician-gynecologist earn
Statistical data allow us to conclude that the profession of an obstetrician is one of the most in demand today. This means that we need to talk about the demand for midwifery specialists among employers. It is this factor that is fundamental in determining the level of salaries of obstetricians.
So, let's consider the indicators of the average income of a specialist in the megacities of the Russian Federation and Russia as a whole. The maximum indicator of the average salary of an obstetrician is typical for the capital of the Russian Federation - Moscow, where it reaches 41,000 rubles, on average in St. Petersburg, an obstetrician earns 35,000 rubles. The average salary in Russia is 33 thousand rubles.
