Regional Healthcare Innovation Forum: Residents and Interns Seek Mutual Growth Solutions

The government has decided to utilize mutual growth solutions, developed through discussions between medical residents and local residents, as foundational data for healthcare innovation.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Medical Innovation Committee announced that they held a forum for regional healthcare innovation at Busan Paran City Hospital on June 20.
The government has been identifying the actual status of medical service utilization in regions with low medical accessibility and incorporating these findings into the innovation discussions currently being pursued by the Medical Innovation Committee.
Busan is the sixth stop on the regional tour. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the region faces complex challenges, including primary care issues in rural areas with large elderly populations and financial difficulties for local general hospitals due to the preference for large-scale hospitals.
At the forum, local residents, who consume medical services, and medical residents, who are responsible for providing them, worked together to develop solutions for mutual growth.
The results produced by these consumers and providers will be delivered to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Medical Innovation Committee in the form of a "joint proposal."
This joint proposal will be used as foundational material for the public deliberation process by the Medical Innovation Citizen Panel, which is being conducted by the Medical Innovation Committee.
The 300-member citizen panel will hold its first discussion on July 4 – 5 at KINTEX in Ilsan under the theme of "Public Deliberation for the Revival of Regional and Essential Healthcare."
Joo Byeong-wook, head of the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam regional council of the Korean Intern Resident Association (KIRA), who participated in the forum, said, "The voices of young doctors who will be responsible for the future of the medical field must be reflected in policy." He added, "I hope this forum will not end as a one-time event, but serve as an opportunity to restore trust between the government and medical residents, and move toward a relationship where young doctors can grow in harmony with local communities."
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