New resident next year, 5% of capacity...There's only one obstetrician.

Among the selected residents in the first half of next year, about 40% of the non-metropolitan area
The essentials that have been suffering from manpower shortages and the selection of next year's majors are urgent.

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Hospitals across the country have started recruiting residents for next year to fill the vacated positions of residents due to legislative conflicts, but only a few have been selected.

Moreover, it was found that only one obstetrics and gynecology department, one of the essential departments, was selected from all over the country.

Reporter Kim Joo-young reports.

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Most of the medical doctors who resigned in opposition to the increase in medical schools have not returned to the hospital.

The attendance rate of majors at training hospitals nationwide is still not above 8%.

[Park Dan / Chairman of the Emergency Response Committee of the Korean Medical Association (last 19th): The demands of young doctors remain unchanged. The students will not go back to school next year either. I don't intend to go back to this state either.]

Hospitals nationwide began recruiting first-year residents in the first half of next year to fill gaps in their majors, but

There were only 314 applicants in the 3,500-strong capacity nationwide, and only 181 were finally selected.

It's a little more than 5% of the number of people recruited.

Among them, 59% of residents in training hospitals in the metropolitan area were residents, and slightly more than 40% were in the non-metropolitan area.

The biggest problem is the essential departments that have suffered from manpower shortages before the legislative conflict.

The obstetrics and gynecology department recruits 188 people, but only one person is selected nationwide.

Only two neurologists, five children and adolescents, and two cardiovascular thoracic surgery were selected.

[Jeong Yeon-jun / Professor of Pediatric Surgery: It is quite difficult to tell (children) a specific date when they can do surgery. There's no structure at all for anesthesia or operating rooms to go back (due to a lack of manpower)..]

Hospitals will start recruiting interns at the end of next month as the shortage of workers in next year's major is directly linked to treatment and surgery disruptions.

I'm Kim Joo-young of YTN.