”We will not accept resident doctors in the second half of the year”... Universities boycott resident doctor recruitment one after another in South Korea

Professors from the Catholic University of Japan's medical school have issued statements in succession, by department, announcing their intention to refuse to teach medical residents being recruited in the second half of the year.
On the 24th, professors of the ophthalmology department at the university issued a statement saying, "All education and training for new residents entering in the second half of the year will be suspended.
The professors stated, "We are clearly refusing to accept the Ministry of Health and Welfare's unilateral demand to 'fill the seats of the resigning trainees with other trainees.'
"It is totally unacceptable that other medical residents are being forced to fill vacant positions through this incredibly coercive and abnormal recruitment."
"Only medical residents selected through fair and proper competition and verification procedures
"They are our only students and colleagues, and it would be an offense to our conscience as educators to take their seats and go along with them," he said. Prior to this, professors from the Department of Imaging Medicine at the Catholic University of Japan also said, "
"We have no intention of recruiting residents in the second half of the year. If we go ahead with the recruitment of residents, it will be impossible for residents to train normally in the future," the statement said.
On the 24th, the Catholic University Medical School Professor Emergency Response Committee held a professors general meeting and announced that
They have declared that they cannot accept the quota for resident doctors recruited in September and that it will be difficult to properly educate them. Recruiting residents in the second half of the year will fuel the collapse of local medical care and slow down the training of residents.
"It will devastate the university," he said. On the 22nd, the recruitment of medical residents for the second half of the year began to fill the gap left by resigning medical residents, but the boycott movement by professors opposed to the move is also spreading to other universities.
On the 23rd, a professor from Catholic University, Korea University, Seoul University, Seong Kyu (INFINITE), Sungkyunkwan University, Yonsei University, and Ulsan University's School of Medicine
The committee issued a statement under the name of the six medical school emergency response committee chairpersons, saying that they could not agree to the recruitment of medical residents in the second half of the year.
"We cannot accept resigning residents as apprentices. We must leave the seats open for resigning residents," he said.