Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Announces 'Public Perception Survey' Results
78.7% 'No Sympathy' for Medical School Professors' Collective Action
87.3% Consider Healthcare Sector Crisis 'Serious'
A survey revealed that seven out of ten citizens agree with increasing the quota for medical schools.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently announced on the 16th that 72.4% of respondents supported expanding the medical school quota by 2,000 students in the 'Public Perception Survey on Medical School Quota Expansion' conducted by the professional polling agency Korea Research.
The survey targeted 1,000 men and women nationwide aged 18 and older. Among them, 26.1% said it was 'very necessary,' and 46.3% said it was 'somewhat necessary.' On the other hand, 17.0% said it was 'somewhat unnecessary,' and 5.8% said it was 'not necessary at all.'
Regarding the medical community's demand to 'reconsider the medical school quota expansion from the beginning,' 57.8% of respondents disagreed. Additionally, 78.7% did not sympathize with the collective action of medical school professors. The medical community's non-participation in the government's Medical Reform Special Committee was also met with 71.8% of respondents expressing a lack of sympathy.
Regarding the autonomous recruitment measure for medical school quotas for next year's university entrance exam, ranging from 50% to 100%, 51.4% evaluated it as a 'well-made decision.' On the direction of license suspension for doctors who changed their specialty, 55.7% said 'license suspension should be enforced according to law and principles,' while 38.9% said 'license suspension should be halted and persuasion through dialogue should be pursued.'
About 87.3% judged the crisis in the health and medical field as 'serious.' There were no significant differences in perception by region, education level, income level, or ideological tendency. Regarding the government's response to emergency medical situations, 27.5% responded that it was 'doing well,' while 65.3% said it was 'doing poorly.'
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