in the areas of excellence.
Dr. Fatima Khnaifis Al-Thebaiti recently won the title of the youngest consultant for general and breast surgery at King Abdulaziz University, which opened the doors of ambition before her, so she hopes to reach the world in eliminating breast cancer, which has become a ghost that threatens women. And Dr. Al-Thobaiti, who graduated from the College of Medicine in 1994 as the first to pay,
She is a consultant general and laparoscopic surgeon, associate professor at the College of Medicine, an undersecretary of the Deanship of Community Service and Continuing Education at King Abdulaziz University and a part-time consultant at Dr. Abdul Rahman Bakhsh Clinic.
The city met her to learn from her success story, and how she was able to achieve part of her scientific and academic ambition, and what she saw as a hindrance to her and her distinguished female peers.
Dr. Fatima says: I was appointed at King Abdulaziz University and specialized in general surgery, and I intended to specialize in children, but I chose surgery due to the lack of specialists from women in this field and the woman’s need for the presence of a surgeon, despite the view that some women do not fit to work in surgery, some tried to dismiss me on the pretext Patients will not come to a woman, but I took the topic as a challenge, and I found with my involvement in work that we cannot dispense with women in surgery in this specialization, especially in breast tumors and some diseases that require surgical intervention, and that there are some women who prefer dealing with the woman’s doctor in order to feel comfortable and not ashamed of IF He shouted about their sickness, and we still need female doctors in many specialties.
Although there are competent Saudi female doctors, we see some prefer the doctor to the man, is there a lack of confidence in her qualifications, or are we accustomed to the fact that the man is the best?
That may be in the past, as society has accepted the presence of a female doctor and surgeon, as well as the doctor believed in the ability of women in surgery and their fellowship in this specialization, because women have become imposing themselves in all medical and other specialties, and even excelled in some of them on men. * As an agent of the Deanship of Service Society and continuing education, would like to get to know the agency and its most prominent activities?
I was nominated as an agent for the Deanship of Community Service in Rabi` al-Akher 1429 AH by the dean of the university and the dean of community service, as it is great confidence that I cherish their choice for me, even though I am a doctor and I have my own clinic and my patients but I agreed immediately and I also benefited from my work in community service, we are in The hospital is separate from the other part of the university, just as many people are unaware of the role of the Deanship of Society and its accomplishments. Social and communicate with some people T that need community support as the role of care, ligaments, and others, this focused on the role of the Deanship of Community Service and its interaction with him through active participation in the activities and the issuance of a booklet of the most important achievements of the Agency''s continuing education. The Deanship also seeks to do everything that would advance the community in all its aspects in order to meet its needs and requirements by providing programs in the field of educational and training services and continuing education programs in the form of development and training rehabilitation and training programs for the development of human resources in the Kingdom at various levels of rehabilitation, in addition to evaluating and providing Professional assistance, scientific support, organizing conferences, seminars, workshops and workshops, and disseminating information through the print, visual and audio media in order to spread public awareness among members of society in cooperation with the relevant authorities.
The problems of female employees on wages are still a concern for many, what have you done about this?
Yes, there is a problem. About 70% of university employees are subject to self-financing, meaning that their income from courses and programs that are provided by the community service agency, so their salaries are small, but the situation may change in the future and jobs become official, and we have started the first step, which is to make all employees Female self-financing employees enter into the social security contract, which we can consider a good start.
