SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical school professors at Seoul National University (SNU) resolved Monday to submit resignations en masse beginning next week if the government does not seek a reasonable breakthrough in the protracted walkout by trainee doctors, the professors’ council said. The decision was announced by the council of SNU medical professors [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Monday it had sent prior notices of license suspension to some 5,000 trainee doctors who have defied an order to return to work, in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang told reporters that it completed [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government will take lenient measures if trainee doctors return to work before administrative procedures to suspend their licenses are completed, although they defied a deadline to avoid punitive steps. Cho made the remark as some 93 percent of the 13,000 junior doctors [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In the wake of a mass departure of resident doctors, some hospitals in South Korea have controversially delegated tasks, traditionally reserved for physicians, to nurses. The Korean Nurses Association reported receiving a complaint that a nurse was instructed to pronounce a patient dead due to the absence of a doctor, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Police launched an investigation Friday into what purports to be a Korea Medical Association (KMA) document ordering the listing of trainee doctors not participating in a walkout protesting the government’s decision to increase the medical school quota. The document, which was uploaded on an online community site Thursday with [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Nurses were authorized to expand their role in the emergency rooms of major hospitals Friday to cope with a shortage of medical staff, as a mass walkout by more than 11,000 trainee doctors entered its 18th day and caused disruptions in health care services. About 92 percent of 13,000 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In the midst of ongoing collective actions by resident doctors, a post surfaced on the anonymous professional community Blind, revealing the apprehensions of a doctor contemplating return but fearing backlash and negative perceptions. On March 7, a user identifying as a resident doctor, referred to as A, shared their dilemma [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has begun forming a committee responsible for allocating 2,000 additional medical school admission seats to universities, officials said Thursday, amid continuing protests from doctors against the plan. The move came as the government is forging ahead with the medical quota hike to address a chronic shortage of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will swiftly implement emergency measures to alleviate public inconveniences caused by the prolonged walkout by trainee doctors protesting the government’s decision to increase the medical school admission quota, an official said Thursday. Lee Han-kyung, the interior ministry’s chief disaster management official, made the remark during a daily [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Nurses will be allowed to perform CPR and administer medication for emergency patients beginning Friday, officials have said, as part of the government’s efforts to cope with disruptions of medical services due to the ongoing mass walkout by trainee doctors. The guidelines by the Ministry of Health and Welfare [...]