SEJONG, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry is set to announce a plan to increase the number of medical students Tuesday, in a bid to address the chronic shortages of doctors in rural areas and the essential health care field, officials said. The Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to hold a health [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – In South Korea, a significant talent drought in cutting-edge industries has been exacerbated by an increasing number of students flocking to medical schools. Semiconductor industry analysts, in particular, have voiced concern that the shortage of skilled workers is reaching a critical level, endangering the very existence of some companies. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – As the South Korean government is contemplating a significant expansion of medical university enrollment quotas, there is increasing interest in whether the establishment of graduate medical schools—pursued by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) to nurture physician-scientists—will become a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) –The government’s announcement regarding the expansion of medical school seats, originally scheduled for Thursday, has been deferred until the end of the year. In response to the determined stance of the medical community, the government has indicated its willingness to determine the extent of expansion after consulting with them. It [...]
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 [...]