The government said it could administratively prohibit resigned interns and residents from obtaining medical licenses in the U.S.On Friday, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said so at a regular briefing of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters to deal with junior physicians’
Amid mounting concerns about inadequate medical student education due to a drastic increase in their enrollment quota from 2025, government officials expressed an intention to obligate the sharing of cadavers for anatomy dissection among schools if supply fails to meet demand.Noting that a corpse ca
A cardiothoracic surgeon’s resignation letter has left a lingering impression on many people involved in the ongoing medical turmoil in Korea.Choi Se-hoon, an associate professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at Asan Medical Center (AMC) in Seoul, has recently announced his resignation.In a
Interns and residents who resigned en masse to oppose the increase of medical school enrollment quota will likely face de facto license revocation if they fail to return to their hospitals and complete their training.The government, which does not allow resigned medical residents to work at other ho
The Korean government has requested drug distributors to prioritize the distribution of immunoglobulin products, utilized in treating immunodeficiency in pediatric and critically ill patients, to children's hospitals.Nam Hoo-hee, head of the Pharmaceutical Policy Division at the Ministry of Health a
The government has begun a full-scale financial injection to fill the vacancies left by interns and residents who resigned en masse to protest against the government’s increase in medical school enrollment quota.Starting in March, for instance, the government will pay a monthly subsidy of 18 million
The government has begun to operate an emergency operation center (EOC) to support the transfer of emergency patients among hospitals in response to trainee physicians’ massive walkouts.To deal with doctors’ collective action, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said it began operating the EOC, a tem
Korea’s state health insurance system recorded a surplus for three years in a row, with accumulated reserves reaching a record 28 trillion won ($21 billion).Both income and expense increased year-on-year, but income grew more significantly. After Covid-19, hospital-level medical institutions recover
The government has released a draft of the “Special Act on Handling of Medical Accidents" to appease the medical community, which has been protesting against the increase in medical school students.However, it remains to be seen whether the proposed law will be enacted, as the timeline for its imple
The government fully allowed contactless medical treatment starting Friday in response to the medical community's collective action in protest against increasing the medical school enrollment quota.The permission will continue until the end of the doctors' strike. Telemedicine will be allowed at all
The oriental medicine community has called for putting traditional medicine practitioners into the medical field to fill the healthcare vacuum caused by striking doctors. On Thursday, however, the Ministry of Health and Welfare drew a line on the issue, saying, “We can’t do that.”In response to the
Nine-thousand-two-hundred-and-seventy-five trainee doctors have resigned at 100 major training hospitals nationwide, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday. Those who left their workplaces numbered 8,024.The ministry announced the result of its field checks on doctors’ collective action at
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has released the studies it used as the basis for increasing the number of medical school enrollment quotas by 2,000 per year.These studies include the Korea Development Institute (KDI)’s "Projection of the Spillover Effects of Population Change on Labor, Education
Koreans’ per capita radiographic tests averaged 6.8 a year, showing a somewhat higher level of radiation exposure than other countries.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) recently released the latest data on the use of medical radiation for the three years from 2020 to 2022, which
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has dismissed as untrue claims that the increase in medical school enrollment quotas is for election purposes and that the government and medical community will adjust the size of the increase after the election.The ministry added that the increased medical school
A mother's diagnosis of breast cancer at a young age does not significantly affect her children's emotional development, according to a new study.Professor Kim Hee-jeong of the Department of Breast Surgery and Professor Kim Hyo-won of the Department of Pediatric Psychiatry at Asan Medical Center (AM
President Yoon Suk Yeol said non-face-to-face medical treatment should be viewed from the perspective of developing the bio-medical industry, emphasizing that the government would pursue policies to attain administrative goals by fostering related industries rather than regulating them.President Yoo
The Minister of Health and Welfare, Cho Kyoo-hong, highlighted the necessity of augmenting the medical school enrollment quota in Korea during the health ministers’ meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Cho attended the OE
Asan Medical Center (AMC) takes the most proactive approach to deal with the aging of hospitalized patients.In September 2020, AMC recognized the need to address the needs of elderly patients through continuous discussions after medical professionals who had frequent contact with them voluntarily fo
An aging society is one in which the share of people aged 65 or older accounts for 7 percent or more of the total population. If the comparable share reaches 14 percent, it is classified as an aged society, and if it exceeds 20 percent, it is labeled as a superaged society. Korea is one of the count