A presidential committee to discuss the government s medical system reform drive was launched on Thursday, but got off to a shaky start as doctors, key stakeholders in the talks, boycotted the meeting to protest President Yoon Suk Yeol s plan to increase the enrollment quota at Korea s medical schools.
One month after tendering their resignations some medical school faculty say they will leave their posts starting Thursday, while others will start weekly work stoppages
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Medical professors at major hospitals in South Korea will resign later this week and have a day off next week as they have been thinly stretched amid a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, officials said Tuesday, deepening concerns over further disruptions in the country's health care system. "We confirm our resignation will start from April 25 as planned," an emergency committee of national medical p.