[Breaking News] "Revision of Doctor Placement Standards: Number of Residents to Half of Specialists"

by Oh Jooyean

Published 12 Mar.2024 11:05(KST)

The government announced on the 12th that it will strengthen the criteria for specialist placement to encourage hospitals to expand the employment of specialists.

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Park Min-su, the 2nd Vice Minister of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, stated this during the briefing of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (CDSCH) held at 11 a.m. that day. Vice Minister Park said, "We will revise the criteria for doctor placement when establishing medical institutions, calculating residents as half of specialists, to employ more specialists," adding, "As the first step, we will expand the full-time professor quota at national university hospitals, currently about 1,700, by more than 1,000 by 2027."