Korean Residents Association Emergency Response Chairman: ”The president of the Korean Medical Association should not speak freely” (Korea)

When the Korean Medical Association (KMA) raised the issue of reducing the number of medical school students as a condition for dialogue between the medical community and the government, a representative of medical residents said, "We hope that Lim Hyun-Tae, president of the KMA, will not speak on his own.
Park Dan, chairman of the emergency response committee of the Korean Association of Medical Specialists, said in a Fei Book on the 1st, "The president of the association does not represent the opinions of the medical specialists who have resigned or the medical students who have taken a leave of absence.
Regarding the policy to increase the number of students at medical schools, he emphasized, "If the current policy is enforced, normal medical education will be impossible. There is no change in our thinking regarding the 2025 medical school enrollment quota."
The Medical Association held a briefing the day before and said, "If the collapse of medical school education in 2025 is inevitable, we want to be guaranteed that it will be possible to reduce the number of students from 2026 onwards."
In response, Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Kyu-hong said to medical residents, "I feel sorry for them," for the first time since the medical vacuum incident.
The government officially apologized, stating that it was "unjust and unjust," and the Japan Medical Association also stated that it "assessed this as a positive change," indicating some change in the conflict between the medical community and the government.
However, the chances of the residents participating in or returning to the dialogue remain low. The residents are voicing their sympathy to the government and political circles who are encouraging dialogue.
The condition is to "cancel the 2025 increase in medical school enrollment," but with the recruitment period already over and the College Entrance Examination to be held in November just a month and a half away, it is realistically difficult to overturn the plan.
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