Challenges in my discipline.

Hello, I was thinking about the career I am studying (as you know, I am studying obstetrics to be a midwife) and I realized that in the future I will have to face some challenges in the different tasks I will have to do so as to take care and concern for the health of women.

But now there also exist challenges in this discipline. One of these are related to social matters, I mean, they affect the way we are appreciated by the people because a midwife has a very important role to play in the community. However, there are people who have no idea what our career is like and they say what is that? Is it like a nurse? So sometimes it is a little embarrassing to mention the career I am studying because I have to say all the things like what it is, what things the midwives do, the different functions, etc. and then I think about this and I believe that to resolve this in the hospitals and health centers the hospital authorities should promote the role of the midwife and highlight its importance and the differences between midwives and nurses. Another challenge is about education because depending on the university in which you study, you will have a prestige, I do not have problems or challenges to face in this area, because the University of Chile is a collaborating center of the World Health Organization (specifically my career), so I know that I will have facilities and recognition, but there are people that study in the other universities (specially the private ones) that do not have much prestige because maybe there are not highly qualified teachers, or they do not have all the resources and opportunities we have (for example). This is a critical challenge because the country needs good professionals, so is difficult to say how to resolve it because is a problem up to university authorities and the minister of health with the minister of education have to take care about that and look for a solution for this challenge because the future of the students of this career and the health of the future patients are in game.