Ministry of Education "Shortened to five years of medical school, not a uniform obligation"

The Ministry of Education explained that it is not a uniform obligation to reduce the medical school curriculum to a maximum of five years.

Shim Min-cheol, a talent policy planning officer at the Ministry of Education, said in a regular briefing today (7th) that the government will support universities if they choose, rather than forcing all universities to shorten them to five years.

In addition, he said there were opinions from some universities on shortening the curriculum in case the supply and demand of medical personnel was disrupted by mass leave of absence of medical students.

In the United States, he explained that if there are special situations such as dispatch of troops, there are cases in which the curriculum is operated in a compressed manner while maintaining the completion credits to quickly produce military doctors.