SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A presidential committee on medical reform was formally launched on Thursday with the aim of seeking a breakthrough over a prolonged walkout by doctors, as their labor action has disrupted public health services for more than two months. Prospects for the committee, however, are uncertain as representatives from senior [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health ministry on Wednesday expressed regret over medical professors’ decision to take a weekly day off starting next week and urged them to engage in dialogue rather than resort to collective action amid the prolonged medical vacuum in the country. On the previous day, an emergency committee [...]
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. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is likely to accept a request made by the chiefs of six national universities to lower their medical school enrollment quotas for next year, officials said Friday. The six universities, all located outside the capital region, made the request Thursday amid an ongoing standoff between the government [...]
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 [...]