SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hospitals were set to begin hiring about 7,700 trainee doctors on Monday, although medical professors have warned of boycotting their training programs in protest of the government’s push for accepting the resignations of striking trainees. Monthslong standoffs with trainee doctors over the medical school admission quota hikes have shown [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite monthslong efforts by the medical community and the government for a breakthrough, over 10,000 striking trainee doctors were presumed to leave hospitals as they have decided not to withdraw their resignations, the health ministry said Thursday. More than 90 percent of around 13,000 junior doctors walked off their [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors appeared to have shown little signs of returning to work as hospitals were set to complete accepting their resignations on Monday, despite the government’s proposal of an olive branch to end a prolonged walkout. Accepting resignations would help trainee doctors, who have left their worksites since late [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is likely to halt the suspension of licenses and other administrative steps against striking trainee doctors in an effort to seek a breakthrough in monthslong medical service disruptions, officials said Monday. Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong is scheduled to hold a press briefing later in the day after [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has been weighing measures on how to deal with trainee doctors who refuse to return to hospitals in protest of medical reform, according to officials Friday. With most trainee doctors still remaining unresponsive to the government’s appeasement measures to help them return to hospitals, officials said the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Tuesday called for trainee doctors to swiftly make their decision on whether or not to return to hospitals, as most of them have shown little sign of returning despite the government’s appeasement steps. About 12,000 trainee doctors have left their worksites since late February [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors who left their worksites for months in protest of the government’s medical reform were seen as mostly lukewarm to plans by the government to allow them to seek other career paths or return to hospitals without legal burdens, according to some junior doctors Wednesday. In an apparent [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to accept the resignations of trainee doctors, a source close to the matter said, in a move to help them seek other career paths or return to hospitals. For months, the government has ordered trainee doctors, who have remained [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government will accomplish medical reform, despite a prolonged walkout by junior doctors that have crippled public health services at major hospitals for nearly six weeks. “The government will accomplish medical reform by only looking at the people,” Cho told a government response [...]