Seoul piles pressure on doctors by finalizing medical school plans
Social affairsMar 20, 2024
“The government's (previous) decision to shrink the medical school admission quota by 351 seats led to a shortage of doctors. If we hadn’t done so, we would have gained 6,600 more doctors by now and more than 10,000 by 2035,” Han said, referring to a reduction in the quota in 2000. The quota for admissions was again reduced in 2006 by 449, and has remained at 3,058 per year since. Han claimed th...