Government "Meet Me Without Conditions"... Medical School Professors "Suddenly Accelerated Government"

Prime Minister Han said, "If reform stops, retreat...Prime Minister, who called for medical reform to be completed without fail"

, urged the medical community to participate in the consultative body without conditions

Professors of medical schools nationwide hold a resolution meeting near the presidential office

"The government attempts to neutralize the medical council to evaluate and certify medical schools."

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As the launch of the ruling and opposition parties' political consultative body remained idle, the government repeatedly urged the medical community to talk without preconditions or prior agenda.

In the midst of this, the medical community raised criticism, saying the government is attempting to neutralize the Korea Institute of Medical Education and Evaluation to push for an unreasonable expansion of medical school quotas.

Reporter Baek Jong-gyu's report.

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The medical community said it would not participate in the medical staff estimation organization without discussing the number of medical students for the 2025 academic year, but
Prime Minister Han Deok-soo reiterated his commitment to complete medical reform.

Even after visiting the National Assembly, he urged the medical community to first participate in the ruling and opposition parties' political consultative body.

[Han Deok-soo / Prime Minister: I would like to say that it is a clear policy to talk about the ruling and opposition parties' legislation without setting any preconditions or prior agenda.] Professors at

held a resolution meeting near the presidential office.

The government has raised criticism that it is trying to neutralize the Korea Institute of Medical Education and Evaluation, which evaluates and certifies medical schools in an effort to expand the number of medical schools.

[Choi Chang-min / Emergency Response Committee Chairman: Medical council is the minimum safety measure to ensure the quality of medical school education. The government should focus on creating an educational environment, not annihilating medical schools.]

Earlier, the government announced legislative amendments to the law that would give medical schools a supplementary period of more than a year before the Medical Council's unauthorized certification if the academic operation of medical schools was not carried out normally,
Professors at
claimed that the government is trying to exterminate the council, fearing that a large-scale medical school disqualification would reveal the fault of excessive reinforcement.

In addition, he urged the government not only to try to neutralize the medical center, but also to discuss the increase in medical schools for the 2025 academic year.

[Park Pyeong-jae / Professor of Korea University Emergency Management Committee: If we fail to stop the current government's policy of sudden acceleration, reverse driving, and drunk driving, the future of medical care in Korea will only be frustration and tragedy.]

At the same time, the Ministry of Education conducted a high-intensity audit of Seoul National University Medical School, which approved the leave of absence of medical students.
I called for an immediate end to the audit without infringing on the autonomy and independence of
universities.

As the government and the medical community do not concede to each other, they only emphasize what they want, and the public's distrust of this will inevitably deepen.

I'm BAEK JONG KYU of YTN.