The Korean medical community is facing an unprecedented crisis as tensions escalate between the government and healthcare professionals over the proposed increase in medical school admissions by 2,000 in 2025.The dispute has broadened from trainee doctors to encompass the entire medical sector, with
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
Despite the government's ultimatum for disciplinary actions ending on Thursday, thousands of Korean medical residents have yet to return to work. As of Tuesday, a total of 9,267 residents from 100 training hospitals were ordered to return, with 5,976 confirmed to have not complied with the order.Vic
No fewer than 3,093 students applied for five additional medical school recruitments for the class of 2024, reaffirming a “medical school craze” that went way beyond simple concentration.Jongro Academy, a prominent extracurricular educational institute, has disclosed application details of 22 medica
Marking Rare Disease Day on Feb. 29, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) held its 8th Rare Disease Day commemorative event on Wednesday to enhance public awareness of rare diseases and to encourage the determination of rare disease patients and their families to overcome illnesses
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 plans to implement the use of "e-labels" for certain biopharmaceutical products, including the newly developed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) and the anti-PD-1 immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab).Last Friday, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety anno
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 Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has signed a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) with Singapore's Health Sciences Authority (HSA) to recognize the results of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) surveys of pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities between the two countries.Minister of Food and Drug S
The Korean government has made a formal proposal to the nation's medical community, urging them to appoint representative members to engage in discussions on critical issues such as the expansion of medical school quotas and the cessation of ongoing collective actions, including strikes and mass res
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
A new proposal for the expansion of medical school quotas by Professor Shin Young-seok of the Korea University Graduate School of Public Health, the principal researcher who previously provided the basis for the government's plan to increase the number of medical students by 2,000, is drawing signif
To combat acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the government will focus on preventing new infections of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and drastically improving access to healthcare.As a means of expanding medical access, it will actively detect patients, expand opportunities for self
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
In a move to combat the rising threat of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the Asia-Pacific region, Korea Biomedical Review (KBR) has announced its partnership with the APAC CVD Alliance on Thursday. Yang Kyung-cheol, CEO and publisher of KBR, and Dr. Krishna Reddy Nallamalla, CEO of ACCESS Health Int
The government has moved toward restricting overseas travel for interns and residents who resigned in protest to the increase in medical school enrollment quota, causing controversy.Under the new measure, doctors who tendered their resignations in a collective action must have a recommendation lette
In the midst of a deepening dispute between the Korean government and medical professionals over medical school quotas, an unprecedented number of resident doctors and medical students are turning their attention to the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), signaling a potential mass
In what's quickly become the talk of the town—or rather, the chirp of the medical community—the Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Park Min-soo has ruffled more than a few feathers with a slip of the tongue that has doctors across the nation tweeting with outrage and bemusement.During a recent brie
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
On Monday, trainee doctors at Korea’s so-called “Big 5” hospitals submitted a wave of resignations, despite the government’s threat to suspend their medical licenses if they do not return to work.The five largest hospitals are Seoul National University Hospital, Samsung Medical Center, Asan Medical