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Photo ID to become mandatory at hospitals for insurance benefits

Patients who want to receive national health insurance benefits at medical institutes will be required to present their photo identification cards, beginning from May 20, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Sunday.

Apr 7, 2024By Jun Ji-hye
Photo ID to become mandatory at hospitals for insurance benefits

Gov't extends deployment of public health doctors amid prolonged walkout

The health ministry said Thursday the government has extended the deployment of public health doctors and military surgeons at hospitals hit by the prolonged walkout of junior doctors protesting the medical school quota hike.

Apr 4, 2024
Gov't extends deployment of public health doctors amid prolonged walkout
  • Head of trainee doctors' group says to meet Yoon on Thursday

Head of trainee doctors' group says to meet Yoon on Thursday

The head of a group representing trainee doctors, who have left worksites in protest of the government's policy of medical reform, said Thursday that he was scheduled to meet with President Yoon Suk Yeol later in the day.

Apr 4, 2024
Head of trainee doctors' group says to meet Yoon on Thursday
  • Gov't extends deployment of public health doctors amid prolonged walkout

Shortage of doctors looms as only 4.3% of new interns register for training

Only 4.3 percent of new interns have actually registered for internship training amid the prolonged tensions between the government and the doctors’ community over the planned hike in the medical school quota, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Wednesday.

Apr 3, 2024By Jun Ji-hye
Shortage of doctors looms as only 4.3% of new interns register for training

Doctors' group welcomes Yoon's offer of talks with trainee doctors

A major lobby group of community doctors on Wednesday welcomed an offer by President Yoon Suk Yeol for talks with trainee doctors, reacting positively to a possible meeting between Yoon and junior doctors over a prolonged standoff over a plan to hike the number of medical students.

Apr 3, 2024
Doctors' group welcomes Yoon's offer of talks with trainee doctors
  • Would Yoon meeting with trainee doctors reach breakthrough in medical walkout?

Only 4.3% of new doctors register for internship training for this year

Only 4.3 percent of intern doctors have enrolled for internship training for this year, the health ministry said Wednesday, which is expected to leave a significant gap in the pipeline for new doctors over the next four or five years.

Apr 3, 2024
Only 4.3% of new doctors register for internship training for this year

Medical professors appeal court dismissal of request to suspend medical school quota hike

Medical professors on Wednesday filed an appeal a day after a Seoul court dismissed their application to suspend the government's much-resisted hike of the nationwide medical school quota.

Apr 3, 2024
Medical professors appeal court dismissal of request to suspend medical school quota hike

Telemedicine services expanded to community health centers as doctors' walkout drags on

The government allowed community health centers to provide remote clinical services via video or phone appointments on Wednesday, a senior official said, as a mass walkout by junior doctors has disrupted public health services at major hospitals for more than six weeks.

Apr 3, 2024
Telemedicine services expanded to community health centers as doctors' walkout drags on

Only 10% of intern doctors register for internship training for H1

Only 10 percent of intern doctors have enrolled for internship training for the first half of the year, the health ministry said Tuesday, amid the protracted walkout by junior doctors in protest of the Korean government's plan to increase medical school admissions.

Apr 2, 2024
Only 10% of intern doctors register for internship training for H1

2nd vice health minister emerges as biggest adversary of doctors

Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo, who has spearheaded the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's efforts to boost the admissions quota of medical schools, has emerged as the primary adversary of doctors. He is being cited as a major obstacle hindering dialogue between the government and the doctors' community to resolve the ongoing health care standoff.

Apr 2, 2024By Jun Ji-hye
2nd vice health minister emerges as biggest adversary of doctors
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