SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical school professors at Seoul National University (SNU) are reviewing taking a day off every week as they have been thinly stretched amid the prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, officials said Tuesday. The emergency committee of the SNU medical professors’ council will hold a general meeting later in the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government will not hold discussions on potentially scrapping a plan to boost medical school admissions, renewing a pledge to accomplish medical reform despite a fierce protest by doctors. About 12,000 trainee doctors have left their worksites since Feb. 20 in the walkout [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Many professors at the College of Medicine at Seoul National University have been working exhausting 80-hour weeks or more to fill in for residents who have been on strike for two months, a recent survey by the emergency committee at the medical school and hospital has revealed. On April 16, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 13,000 medical students plan to collectively seek court injunctions to halt their schools’ expansion of admission quotas, a lawyer said Wednesday, as the walkout by protesting trainee doctors continued for nearly two months. The injunction requests will be filed next Monday by students from 32 medical schools outside [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong once again called on doctors Monday to come forward for dialogue to end the prolonged walkout by junior doctors and present a unified proposal regarding the quota for medical school admissions, stressing its firm will to push for medical reform plans. More than 90 percent [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Friday it will send more than 2,700 additional physician assistant (PA) nurses to hospitals to minimize medical system disruptions amid a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors. More than 90 percent of South Korea’s 13,000 trainee doctors have walked off the job in protest since Feb. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is ready to discuss with doctors about an increased quota in medical school admissions in an open manner if they come up with a unified and more reasonable measure, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday. About 12,000 trainee doctors nationwide have left their workplaces since Feb. 20 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – An analysis of the 2024 academic year’s medical school admission results in South Korea has revealed a striking concentration of successful applicants hailing from the capital city of Seoul and those who have repeated a year or more after high school graduation, colloquially known as “N-students.” According to data obtained [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical professors plan to file a constitutional appeal over the government’s decision to raise medical school admissions, claiming the increase violates their basic rights, officials said Friday. The Medical Professors Association of Korea is scheduled to file the petition with the Constitutional Court before the April 10 general elections [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is determined to accomplish medical reform, a senior official said Friday, although a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors has disrupted public health services at major hospitals for more than six weeks. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo made the remarks at a government response meeting, a day [...]