Jeonbuk Province "Welcomes Announcement of Public Medical School Establishment Plan, Administrative Procedures to Proceed Smoothly"

Announcement of Legislative Confirmation for Establishing Seonam National Public Medical School

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[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hong Jae-hee] Jeonbuk Province expressed a welcoming stance following the announcement of the plan to promote the establishment of a public medical school to expand public medical personnel.

On the 23rd, Jeonbuk Province welcomed the announcement of the plan to promote the establishment of a public medical school according to the agreement between the party and government, and stated that it will proceed with administrative procedures without any setbacks.

The Democratic Party and the government announced through a briefing after the party-government council that they will expand the current medical school quota of 3,050 students to train an additional total of 4,000 students over 10 years to resolve regional imbalances.

Separately from the quota expansion, it was confirmed that legislation will be promoted to establish a national public medical school utilizing the 49 medical school quotas from Seonam University.

Regarding this, Policy Committee Chairman Jo Jeong-sik said, “Currently, the public medical school bill, which was introduced by Health and Welfare Committee whip Assemblyman Kim Seong-ju as the main proposer, has been submitted,” and added, “We will proceed with the establishment of a public medical graduate school through prompt legislative procedures, aiming to open in March 2024.”

Governor Song Ha-jin stated, “Through the recent COVID-19 crisis, the necessity to strengthen the public health medical system, including shortages of public medical personnel and hospital beds and regional medical disparities, has become clearly evident,” and added, “We will proceed with related administrative procedures such as securing land and deciding on urban management plans without any setbacks so that the public medical school can fulfill its role as a mandatory officer training school for essential public medical personnel.”

Meanwhile, to expand public health medical personnel, it was decided to establish a public medical school utilizing the medical school quota of Seonam University, which was closed in 2018, and a bill was introduced, but it failed to pass the Health and Welfare Committee and was shelved, eventually being discarded due to the expiration of the 20th National Assembly’s term.

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