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The 2024 South Korean medical crisis is an ongoing healthcare crisis following the announcement of new government policies that would significantly increase medical student admission quotas. Thousands of residents and interns have since resigned, resulting in medical school professors working to cover.
Trainee doctors in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse Monday in protest of a government medical policy, causing reported delays in surgeries and other treatments at hospitals.
February 28, 2024 at 5:44 AM. ... The Korea Medical Association, which represents about 140,000 doctors in South Korea, has steadfastly expressed its support of the trainee doctors, though it hasn ...
The government wants to increase South Korea’s medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 starting next year, from the current 3,058, to better deal with the country’s rapidly aging population.
(1) I think "crisis" and "strike" are both used in news outlets (i.e. "A KMA spokesperson weighs in on the ongoing strike and South Korea’s medical crisis", "South Korea’s healthcare crisis deepened this week as senior doctors and medical professors joined a protracted strike to protest increasing medical school admissions.
Nearly 9,000 of South Korea’s 13,000 medical interns and residents have been refusing to work for the last two weeks to protest a government plan to enroll thousands more students in the country ...
24 July – A balloon from North Korea carrying rubbish lands on the Presidential Residence in Yongsan, Seoul. [50] July 26–August 11 – South Korea at the 2024 Summer Olympics: The South Korean Olympic delegation wins 13 gold, nine silver, and ten bronze medals and places 8th out of 84 countries competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in ...
About 7,800 medical interns and residents in South Korea have walked off their jobs this week to protest the government’s push to recruit more medical students. Officials say they want to ...