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Background: In February 2024, the South Korean government released a policy proposal for healthcare reform, with one of the main pillars being increased medical school admissions. This policy has sparked intense opposition from the physicians' top association. Most importantly, interns and residents--the bedrock of the medical workforce in Korean hospitals--began to leave en masse. Consequently, a medical crisis emerged, in which many medical and surgical procedures were delayed. Current Concepts: According to studies on comparative health policy and systems, the crisis could be attributed to the unique characteristics of the Korean healthcare system, in which the administration and doctors have failed to establish a substantive dialogue through which policy options are examined and deliberated. These dynamics necessitated the establishment of an institutional space for interest group politics, causing both to suffer from a lack of action repertoires. The stalemate we witness reflects the enduring patterns of the same issue. Discussion and Conclusion: To ensure the success of the current initiative, institutional arrangements must be established in which policymakers and physicians make a credible commitment to each other. Alternatives, for instance, include reactivating and regularizing the Health and Medical Services Policy Deliberation Committee, which could pave the way for establishing a venue where key stakeholders can discuss future agendas, such as how to ensure improved accessibility to "essential" care and mitigate its subnational variation, thereby creating a long-term vision for new health system governance in South Korea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are various opinions on whether the effect of learning is existence of students who have undergone dissection experiments on living animals of elementary, middle, and high school students who are minors. The negative effects of the dissection experiment are that it undermines the right to life of the animal, which is the object, and that underage students can confuse the spiritual impact and value through the process of anatomy. Since the regulations on animal experiments in Korea have been stipulated by the law since 2007, elementary, middle, and high schools were not accepted as subject to carry out animal experiments in Korea's legal system. In current curriculum, there is no education about bioethics, animal rights, animal experiment ethics before animal experiment. In addition, there is no systematic education and guidance on animal experiment ethics and procedures for teachers who lead animal dissection experiments, as well as supervision and management of animal management and disposal procedures before and after animal dissection experiments. In the United States, the federal Act on Animal Welfare does not directly limit the experiment of animal dissection of minors. However, in each state, when a minor student conducts an animal dissection at school, he or she is entitled to take alternative assignments without participating in the experiment, depending on the student's ethical and religious values. Therefore, in order to allow the ministry animal dissection experiment of minor students to be allowed according to the legal system in the future, considering the protection of animals, educational purpose and the safety of dissection experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]