Medical Professors Urge "Reconsideration of Medical School Expansion to Resolve Crisis"

"Significantly Reducing Selection or Not Doing It Is the Right Decision"

Medical school professors urged the National Assembly and the government to resolve the medical crisis by reconsidering the increase in medical school admissions from the ground up.

The Emergency Committee of Medical School Professors Nationwide (Jeon-ui-bi) stated in a press release on the 16th, "If the increase in medical school admissions continues as it is and becomes entrenched, the path to normalizing medical education and healthcare will become increasingly distant."

Jeon-ui-bi demanded, "The National Assembly and the government should stop Yoon Seok-yeol's 'pseudo medical reform' and reconsider the 'increase in medical school admissions' from the ground up to resolve the current situation. They should temporarily halt the medical school admissions selection process and discuss with university presidents, medical school deans, and professors to devise reduction and selection measures tailored to each university's circumstances."

They continued, "Starting next year, an unprecedented situation will arise where students from the 24th class, who took a leave of absence this year, must be educated together for the next six years with at least twice the existing quota," emphasizing, "Considering the situation of first-year pre-med students next year, significantly reducing or not selecting students at all is the correct decision."

They added, "Whether through the National Stability Council or any other structure, regardless of party lines, the National Assembly and the government must devise measures from a magnanimous perspective," warning, "If this is left unattended, the crisis facing medical schools and training hospitals will become irreversible."