Senior doctors who both practice medicine and teach medical school students are resigning across the country.As of Monday morning, 433 professors at three hospitals affiliated with the University of Ulsan College of Medicine—Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University Hospital, and GangNeung Asan Hospital
Medical costs for cancer treatment exceeded 10 trillion won ($7.5 billion) for the first time in Korea last year.According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) analysis of malignant neoplasm treatment status over the past five years, the number of cancer increased by 18.1 per
The allocation of increased medical school enrollment quota announced by the government is nothing more than an adjustment of quotas to solve the long-cherished wishes of private university hospitals, an opposition lawmaker said Wednesday.Some medical schools are located in provinces but educate the
Korean trainee doctors, seeking intervention from the International Labor Organization (ILO) to defy the government's return-to-work order, were rejected as ineligible for an opinion, the Korean government said.Earlier, the Korea Intern Resident Association (KIRA) sent an urgent intervention request
Professors at Korea’s five most prestigious medical schools are moving to resign en masse.Following the plan of their counterparts at Seoul National University College of Medicine, professors at Yonsei University College of Medicine have decided to submit their resignations next Monday.The Yonsei Un
Legal experts debated the effective timing of trainee physicians' resignation letters at a meeting convened by Rep. Shin Hyun-young of the Democratic Party of Korea, titled "How to interpret the legal issues related to the medical crisis," held at the National Assembly on Thursday.Recently, the gove
Professors from Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine have proposed forming a consultative body to resolve the ongoing medical turmoil, which would include the government, the medical community, lawmakers, medical residents, and civic groups representing the public.They also suggested
Professors at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, including those at Asan Medical Center (AMC) in Seoul, have agreed to submit their resignations in protest against the government's decision to suspend the licenses of resigned interns and residents.The emergency committee of the University
University hospitals are grappling with financial difficulties amid prolonged walkouts by trainee doctors, medical sources said.These hospitals have cut back on medical services due to the exodus of interns and residents. As the collective action enters the third week, declining revenue is leading t
Forty medical schools nationwide have requested to enroll an additional 3,401 students for the 2025 academic year, according to government officials on Tuesday.If the government accepts such requests, the medical school enrollment quota will more than double the current 3,058.The Ministry of Health
The government's survey, demanding adjustments to the medical school enrollment quotas of 40 universities with medical programs, is scheduled to conclude at midnight on Thursday.Against this backdrop, university presidents and medical professors at some universities clash with each other over this c
Professor Keum Ki-chang of radiation oncology at Yonsei University College of Medicine has been appointed as CEO and President of Yonsei University Health System (YUHS) and YUHS Vice President for Health Sciences, Severance Hospital said on Tuesday. His term will begin on March 1 and will last for f
The government has concluded that the recent death of a cardiac arrest patient in her 80s in Daejeon while being transported by ambulance was not related to "emergency rooms’ refusal to accept patients.”The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Tuesday that it reached such a conclusion after conductin
Proponents of the medical school enrollment quota increase have maintained that Korea needs to lower doctors’ income to an optimal level by expanding the number of physicians and avoiding falling into a “medical school black hole.”The "medical school black hole" in Korea refers to a phenomenon where
The government says it will consider using physician assistant (PA) nurses to fill the healthcare gap caused by the mass resignation of junior doctors, but most hospitals do not see it as a realistic option.That’s because PAs are already working in hospitals, but the legality of their practice is am
As trainee physicians at Korea’s five largest tertiary hospitals walked out en masse on Tuesday morning in protest to the government’s medical school quota increase, senior doctors in emergency medicine are taking on additional duties, hospitals said. This could lead them to suffer burnout, putting
As interns and residents are resigning en masse in protest to the government’s increase of medical school enrollment quota, the rivaling political parties have set about to persuade them, saying, “Let’s resolve it through dialogue.”On Monday, the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) annou
Yongin Severance Hospital has started prescribing Somzz, the first digital therapeutics (DTx) device in Korea, for older adults with insomnia.Somzz, approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in February last year, implements cognitive behavioral therapy, the optimum standard treatment for ins
Some users of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treatment Spinraza (nusinersen) failed to get reimbursement because their motor function was not maintained or improved after its administration.The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) released the results of the recent Medical Review and
Over 3,000 doctors are generated annually in Korea, yet a declining number are actively seeking specialized qualifications. Particularly noteworthy is the reduction of physicians specializing in critical departments that deliver essential care, with a decrease of 610, or 24 percent, observed over th