The first doctor estimation organization in seven months..."Guarantee job cuts in 2026".

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Seven months after the announcement of the increase in medical schools to resolve the legislative conflict, the government announced specific measures to promote a doctor estimation organization.

The medical community has pressed them to promise first that if they cannot adjust the number of medical schools next year, they will be able to cut jobs in 2026.

Reporter Kim Joo-young reports.

[Reporter]
The government has come up with a specific deadline and direction for the composition of the doctor's manpower estimation organization.It has been more than seven months since he announced that he would increase large-scale medical schools, saying that the number of doctors

is insufficient.

[Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Kyu-hong: To analyze the appropriate size of medical personnel required to strengthen essential and local medical care, the system for estimating and adjusting the supply and demand of medical personnel will be institutionalized in earnest.]

Seven out of 13 members of the organization will be recommended by doctors' organizations, and the final decision will be deliberated by the Health and Medical Policy Council.

Regarding whether a reasonable estimate was needed before the increase in medical school, he mentioned three papers that were controversial as to whether it was appropriate as a basis.

[Kim Kook-il / Health and Medical Policy Officer, Ministry of Health and Welfare: It was based on three research papers based on scientific grounds, as I clearly said when calculating the number of medical school students.]

The medical community once again criticized that there was no basis for the increase in medical schools.

The Korean Medical Association held a briefing and pointed out that if the number of people had increased through the same process as the installation of the equipment, there would have been no confusion as it is today.

I have made clear my opposition to the human resource estimation organization, which is an advisory organization.

Instead, he demanded that if the quota for the 2025 school year cannot be touched, he should make a promise that the 2026 school year reduction is possible.

[Choi An-na / Spokesperson for the Korean Medical Association: From 26, the government must legally guarantee that it is possible to reduce (the number of medical school members) rather than deferrals.]

Both the government and the medical association have taken a step back, but it still seems difficult to resolve the legislative conflict.

This is because medical students and medical students, who are at the core of problem solving, have not responded to the government's proposal at all, claiming that next year's increase will be reviewed.

On top of that, medical professors are signaling a large-scale resolution meeting against government policies near the presidential office in Yongsan, so expectations for a dramatic settlement are still early.

I'm Kim Joo-young of YTN.

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