SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of 10 students who dropped out of medical school over the past three years turned out to be students at colleges located outside the greater Seoul area, data showed Monday. According to Jongro Academy, one of the country’s leading educational institutions for college admissions, number [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of dropouts has been increasing at major universities in Seoul in the last three years, largely due to the increasing number of students enrolling in medical school. Jongno Academy, an educational institution for college admissions, reported that there were 7,111 dropouts from 11 major universities in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — College seniors in medical school are stepping up to serve as volunteers to fight the coronavirus in the greater Seoul Area. The National Medical School Volunteer Corps recently announced that there has been a sense of solidarity among seniors for the need to voluntarily join the efforts to fight [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Six residency programs, including urology and cardiothoraic surgery, have failed to meet 70 percent of their enrollment quota for medical students this year, a report showed Thursday, raising the need for more incentives to attract students to the less popular residency programs. No medical student applied for the tuberculosis [...]
LYNDHURST, N.J., Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The practice of medicine requires extensive training and relies on hard science. And yet, the attributes valued most by patients when rating and reviewing their doctors are more often those softer measures not taught in medical school. The Vitals Index analyzed 1,000 recent reviews of doctors by their [...]