509 Specialists Finally Certified This Year... 19% of Last Year's Level

Number of Examinees Drops Due to Mass Resignation of Residents
Only 18.7% Pass Compared to Last Year
Decrease Linked to Protest Against Medical School Expansion Policy

It was revealed that 509 people passed the 68th Specialist Qualification Examination. This is about 19% of last year's figure.

According to the medical community on the 24th, a total of 522 people took the second part of the 68th Specialist Qualification Examination, and 509 people passed the final exam, excluding 13 people (including 2 absentees). The pass rate was 97.5%.

This year's final number of specialists who passed is only 18.7% of last year's 2,727. This is due to a decrease in examinees as residents resigned in protest against the government's medical school expansion policy.

To take the specialist exam, one must complete one year of internship and three to four years of residency training. However, as of the 20th, the attendance rate of residents at 211 training hospitals was only 8.7%.

As with last year, the highest number of final passers this year came from Internal Medicine (87 people). Single-digit numbers of specialists were produced in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (6 people), Rehabilitation Medicine (9 people), and Dermatology (7 people).

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