▲ Medical school data image As the government announced the expansion of medical schools as part of its plan to improve the essential medical system, it was predicted that the size of medical schools would be larger than originally planned.
The government plans to announce the scale, schedule, and method of expanding medical school seats as early as the 19th, and it is said that a plan to increase the number of students by about 1,000, focusing on national universities, is also included.
Attention is also focused on whether to establish new medical schools, such as local medical schools or public medical schools.
The medical school quota has been frozen at 3,058 since the 2006 division of medicine incident.
The government sees the beginning of the expansion of the number of students as the 2025 college entrance exam, when second-year high school students take the exam. In this case, the number of medical school students will increase for the first time in 19 years.
The scope of increasing the number of seats beyond 1,000 is similar to what civil society has been advocating.
According to the results of the ‘2023 Public Medical Issues Survey’ submitted by Rep. Kim Won-i of the Democratic Party of Korea, a member of the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee, when asked how much the number of medical school students should be increased, 24.0% (241 people) of respondents answered that it was more than 1,000.
However, when the Ministry of Health and Welfare promoted the expansion of medical school admissions in 2020 last year, the medical community strongly opposed the plan, including a mass layoff of residents, so conflict appears inevitable in the future.
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2023-10-14 06:09:02
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