Ministry of Health and Welfare: ”96.2% of interns resign... 7,707 applicants for second half of 2019 residency program”

As a result of the South Korean government's request to process the resignations of medical residents who do not return to their training hospitals, it has been estimated that around 7,000 people, more than half of the medical residents who have left training hospitals across the country, have resigned.
On the 18th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that 110 hospitals out of 151 hospitals that had employed resident physicians as of yesterday had submitted the results of their resignations, and as of March this year, 50,000 resident physicians out of 14,531 had resigned.
The number of interns resigned (including abandoning their appointments), accounting for 7,648 people, or 6.5% of the total. Of the 3,068 interns who were appointed, 2,950 people, or 96.2%, resigned, while the number of residents resigned was 10,000.
Of the 463, 4,698 people, or 44.9%, resigned. On the 8th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced measures to allow resident doctors to return to their jobs, giving each training hospital until July 15th to confirm whether their resident doctors can return or resign.
The city has confirmed the vacancies and requested that applications for the number of resident physicians to be recruited in the second half of this year be submitted to the Training Environment Evaluation Committee Secretariat by July 17th.
The training hospital has applied for 7,707 resident doctors for the second half of this year.
The number of recruits is 557 for medical students and 5,150 for residents. The recruitment figures also reflect vacancies that have arisen unrelated to the withdrawal of medical residents. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Training Environment Evaluation Committee will continue to accept applications from training hospitals until the 19th.
After going through the verification process for the number of people to be recruited in the second half of the year, the recruitment will be announced on the 22nd and the recruitment process will continue until August.
In order to allow many resident doctors to return to their training, the government decided to apply the special training exemption. Measures will be taken to allow returning resident doctors to continue their training normally and minimize the impact on the time of obtaining specialist qualifications.
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