716 New Public Health Doctors Begin Work... Assigned Mainly to Medically Underserved Areas

683 Local Government Officials, 33 Central Agency Officials Assigned

The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that 716 newly enlisted public health doctors (Gongbo-ui) in 2024 will begin their 36-month service starting with central job training on the 8th.

The 716 public health doctors who complete this training will be assigned to local governments (683) and central agencies (33).

Based on their preferred work locations, they will be allocated to each city/province and central institutions such as correctional facilities on the 11th through a computerized lottery.

The number of newly enlisted public health doctors by field this year is 255 in medicine, 185 in dentistry, and 276 in Korean medicine, totaling 716.

This is 302 fewer than the 1,018 third-year service completers this year.

By field, the number of medical doctors decreased by 246, while dentistry and Korean medicine each decreased by 43.

In response to the significant decrease in newly enlisted medical public health doctors, the Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to strengthen deployment focused on medically underserved rural areas and expand mobile clinics at health centers.

Meanwhile, to minimize inconvenience to local residents caused by the dispatch of public health doctors for emergency medical system support, the government has temporarily allowed non-face-to-face medical consultations at health centers and health clinics since the 3rd.

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