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Medical professors to resign this week amid prolonged doctors' walkout

Medical professors at major hospitals in Korea will resign later this week and have a day off next week as they have been thinly stretched amid a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, officials said Tuesday, deepening concerns over further disruptions in the country's health care system.

Apr 23, 2024
Medical professors to resign this week amid prolonged doctors' walkout

Presidential medical reform committee left incomplete amid doctors' boycott

A special presidential committee for medical reform the Yoon Suk Yeol administration created to discuss policy, finds itself in trouble even before its official launch on Thursday, as doctors — one of the most important stakeholders — have vowed to boycott the committee.

Apr 23, 2024By Jun Ji-hye
Presidential medical reform committee left incomplete amid doctors' boycott

'Not many' medical school professors submitted resignations: education ministry

"Not many" medical school professors involved in actual teaching have submitted resignations, the education ministry said Monday, amid concerns their resignations, if they take effect, could further worsen the medical vacuum caused by a walkout by trainee doctors.

Apr 22, 2024
'Not many' medical school professors submitted resignations: education ministry

Government's flip-flopping on med school quota hike confuses students

Students preparing for medical school admissions are complaining about the government's latest decision to allow schools to decrease the size of enrollment expansion by the hundreds, creating confusion for them at a time when the application period for early admissions is now less than five months away.

Apr 22, 2024By Jun Ji-hye
Government's flip-flopping on med school quota hike confuses students

Father of Korean life science research dies at 88

He graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at Seoul National University in 1960 and received his Ph.D. from St. John's University of the United States in 1974.

Apr 22, 2024By Baek Byung-yeul
Father of Korean life science research dies at 88

Over 700 civilians visit military hospitals amid doctors' walkout

Military hospitals nationwide have treated more than 700 civilians since opening their doors to the public at a full scale in mid-February, the defense ministry said Sunday, amid the protracted walkout by trainee doctors.

Apr 21, 2024
Over 700 civilians visit military hospitals amid doctors' walkout
  • Doctors' association rejects gov't proposal on flexible expansion of med school quota

Doctors' association rejects gov't proposal on flexible expansion of med school quota

The Korean Medical Association (KMA), the country's biggest lobby group for doctors, on Saturday rejected the government's proposal to grant universities autonomy in deciding their medical school quota by a range of 50 to 100 percent for the 2025 academic year.

Apr 20, 2024
Doctors' association rejects gov't proposal on flexible expansion of med school quota
  • Over 700 civilians visit military hospitals amid doctors' walkout

Heart disease patient in her 60s dies after surgery delay amid medical vacuum

A heart disease patient in her 60s died last month while waiting for surgery after about five hours spent searching for a university hospital willing to admit her for the operation, sources said Wednesday.

Apr 17, 2024
Heart disease patient in her 60s dies after surgery delay amid medical vacuum

Yellow dust blankets Seoul

Seoul is shrouded in yellow dust as seen from Cheong Wa Dae Observatory on Mount Bugak in central Seoul, Wednesday. Yellow dust from China spiked fine dust levels to “bad” across most parts of the country. Yonhap

Apr 17, 2024By Kwak Yeon-soo
Yellow dust blankets Seoul

13,000 medical students to seek injunction against medical school quota hike

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.

Apr 17, 2024
13,000 medical students to seek injunction against medical school quota hike
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