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Intern Doctors to Be Barred from Training in H1 unless They Register for Jobs by April 2: Official

SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Intern doctors, who have left their worksites in protest of a plan to hike the number of medical students, will be barred from training in the first half of this year unless they register for jobs by April 2, a senior official said Thursday. Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang [...]

Quarantined Medical Residents Ask to Return to Duty

DAEGU, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A story of young doctors wanting to go back on duty after being quarantined for being in contact with a coronavirus patient is moving the hearts of the public. Thirteen of 48 interns at Kyungpook National University Hospital in country’s southeastern city of Daegu, where hundreds of COVID-19 infections [...]