South Korea
Population (2018): 51.164 M (World Populations, 2018)
Income per Capita (2018): 26152.03 US (Income per Capita, 2018)
Percentage of GDP on Healthcare (2015): 7.70% (Statistica, 2016)
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Year Family Medicine was Established: 1979
Length of Medical School: 4 years on top of either a two-year premedical course or a four-year bachelor's degree
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Type of Training: Residency
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A residency program was established in the 1970s in South Korea (Kim et al., 2013).. Post-secondary education entails 4 years of medical school education, as seen across multiple school websites. It is unclear how long residency trainings are, or the curriculum involved. The physician to population ratio is 2.3/1000 (World Bank, 2016).. Health Care System data is unknown. No other comprehensive data was found on South Korea through an online scope and literature review. The initial literature scope was done to collect data from online sources, such as, medical school websites and the WHO website. The literature review was done to collect data from papers retrieved using Google, Google Scholar, PubMed, and Web of Science. More information will be added upon further correspondence with Dr. Belong Cho.
References
“Health Spending – South Korea”, Statista (2016). Accessed December 8, 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/647320/health-spending-south-korea/
“Income per Capita”, Trading Economics (2018), Accessed November 7, 2018, https://tradingeconomics.com/
Kim, J., Kim, J.Y., Kown, K.Y., Lee, C.M., Jeon, T.H., and Hyun, S.S. “Satisfaction and Difficulties of Korean Family Medicine Resident Training Faculty”, Korean Journal of Family Medicine 34, no. 5: 357-363 (2013). Accessed December 1, 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3791343/
“Physicians (per 1,000 people)”, The World Bank (2016). Accessed December 1, 2018, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?locations=CN-HK-KR-K
Shin, HY. A survey of the working status of family medicine physicians in clinics and hospitals in Korea. BMC Fam Pract 21, 82 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01154-5
“World Population”, Worldometers (2018). Accessed December 1, 2018, www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/