Personal experience and future perspectives about how to work as a liver transplant surgeon

Abstract

In Japan, the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace was enacted in August, 2015. Thereafter, woman’s participation has been focused on in the field of medicine. However, the number of surgeons, especially in the transplantation field, is few. As a transplant female surgeon, I have been working for more than 15 years. As a rare case, I would like to write about my career history first, and then I would like to comment on how to work as a transplant surgeon for younger generations.