Next Year's Resident Early Recruitment Results
Emergency Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology Face Worsening Staff Shortages
In the recruitment of first-year residents for the first half of next year, only about one-quarter of the quota for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine was filled. This is analyzed to be due to the continued avoidance of essential medical fields, resulting in a low number of applicants. Similarly, Emergency Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, which are also facing severe manpower shortages, saw a lower resident recruitment rate than last year.
According to the results of the 2024 first half first-year resident recruitment announced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on the 27th, a total of 3,356 positions were offered by 144 hospitals in the early recruitment held from the 4th to the 6th, and 2,792 candidates were selected after written exams and interviews. The recruitment rate, which is the ratio of selected candidates to the quota, was 83.2%, slightly higher than this year's 82.1%, where 2,724 were selected out of 3,319 positions.
Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Kyoo-hong is leaving the press conference room after finishing a briefing on the implementation plan for regional and essential medical innovation at the Government Seoul Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 26th. [Photo by Yonhap News]
The recruitment rate was particularly low in so-called 'unpopular departments' within essential medical fields. Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine recruited only 54 out of 206 positions, resulting in a recruitment rate of 26.2%. Although this is an increase from 17.6% this year, it remains low.
The recruitment rate for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine was especially low outside the metropolitan area. Only 10 out of 85 positions were filled, resulting in a recruitment rate of 11.8%. This is somewhat better than this year's early recruitment, where only 3 out of 72 positions were filled.
Emergency Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology had lower recruitment rates than this year. Emergency Medicine filled 148 out of 193 positions, a rate of 76.7%, and Obstetrics and Gynecology filled 116 out of 183 positions, a rate of 63.4%.
In Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery, 24 out of 63 positions were filled, resulting in a recruitment rate of 38.1%. Surgery also filled 161 out of 200 positions, with a recruitment rate of 80.5%.
On the other hand, relatively popular departments such as Radiology, Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Plastic Surgery, and Otorhinolaryngology had a 100% recruitment rate, while Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (99.1%), Neurology (96.4%), Neurosurgery (99.1%), and Internal Medicine (95.3%) also had high recruitment rates.
The total number of selected residents decreased in the metropolitan area but increased in non-metropolitan areas. The number of residents selected in non-metropolitan regions increased by 133, from 968 this year to 1,101 next year, while the number selected in the metropolitan area decreased by 65, from 1,756 to 1,691.
Resident recruitment proceeds in the order of early, late, and additional recruitment. The Ministry of Health and Welfare will conduct the late recruitment application process from the 27th to the 28th, and the additional recruitment application process on the 15th and 16th of next month.
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