SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s ongoing push for medical reform is for the people, and it cannot be subject to negotiations, the health ministry said Friday, effectively rejecting the medical community’s call for modifying the state plan to markedly raise medical school enrollment quota. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Increasing the nationwide medical school admission quota is a “prerequisite” for the normalization of the country’s medical services, the interior minister said Wednesday, sticking to the government’s 2,000-seat expansion despite escalating protests from doctors. Interior Minister Lee Sang-min made the remark during a government meeting as the government-medical standoff [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry on Wednesday appealed to defiant junior doctors to come forward for talks with the government, as a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors has crippled major hospitals for more than five weeks. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo urged defiant trainee doctors to “form a responsible delegation [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A major lobby group of community doctors is set to elect a new leader Tuesday, with a prolonged walkout by junior doctors over the increased medical school enrollment quota continuing to disrupt public health services at major hospitals. The Korean Medical Association (KMA), which represents some 100,000 community doctors, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry opened a hotline on Tuesday to protect medical students wanting to return to classes from peer bullying from other students boycotting classes in protest of the government’s increase of the medical school quota. The move came amid reported cases of medical students unwillingly joining the ongoing [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of medical professors on Monday demanded the government scrap a reform plan that increased medical school admission seats, saying it would sit down for talks with the government only if the plan is abolished. The demand by the Medical Professors Association of Korea is expected to complicate [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday relevant ministries have swiftly begun work to hold talks with the medical community, a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol called for a “flexible” measure over the government’s move to suspend licenses of defiant trainee doctors. Prospects of talks between the government and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday that the government will deploy additional military surgeons and public health doctors to help cope with the prolonged walkout by junior doctors. Over 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 junior doctors have been on mass resignations for more than a month, protesting against [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As the South Korean government finalizes plans to increase enrollment at medical schools by 2,000 students, a leading voice in the medical community has sounded the alarm about a potential exodus of aspiring doctors disillusioned with the changes. “Many residents are preparing for medical licensing exams in the United States [...]