• 의학교육논단
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2007

Even though 35% of Korean medical students are female, medical schools and hospitals maintain a strongly male-dominated culture which discourages female students from active career development. In 2006, Yonsei Medical school instigated an elective course entitled "Women in Medicine" to encourage and stimulate 51 female students who enrolled the course. Researchers conducted participant observations at all 6 lectures, as well as 2 surveys and 4 student fucus group discussions comprising a total of 18 students. The total satis faction r ate of the course was high at 4.6 points out of a 5-point score Nevertheless, the study results confirmed three conflict points between lectures and students. Firstly, the lecturers emphasized the excellence and carrier-goal oriented life style, whereas most students are more interested in an ordinary women doctor's life. Secondly, the lecturers emphasized the importance of husband and family's support for success in their career but most female students have little confidence in their ability to achieve a balance between work and family. Thirdly, the lecturers emphasized the women doctor who is able to lead a team effectively, but women students have few opportunities to play a leadership role in their school life. These study findings imply that there is a generation gap in the concept of "successful women doctor's life" between lecturers and students. and that interactive dialogue between lecturer and students is more important than lecture style presentations from extremely successful female doctors. In addition to such lectures, a leadership program based on active student participation should be developed.

• 의료법학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.285-317
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• 2008

To accept the doctor's professional negligence in the medical malpractice, the mistakes, by which the doctor did not foresee the production of the results in spite of the possibility of foresight and did not avoid the production of the results in spite of the possibility of avoidance, must be considered, and to decide the presence of the doctor's professional negligence, the standard must be the attention standard of general-common doctor engaged in the same business and the same function, and the medical enviornments, the conditions, the extraordinary nature of medical behavior, and etc should be considered by the general level of medical science at the time of accident. This principlel must be applied to the medical malpractice case occurred being on duty without exception. But, because of the extraordinary nature of duty work, it is difficult for any doctor to do one's best technical practice by making all diagnosis, medical treatment with all the equipment on the same plane as the ordinary times. That cannot be also expected for any doctor to do one's best technical practice in the terms of a social idea. From this point of view looking into The Precedent case related to Medical-service person being on duty sentenced by The Supreme Court, unlike the general medical malpractice case, the presence of the professional negligence in the medical malpractice occurred being on duty seems to be decided with more consideration on the general level of medical science, the medical enviornments and the conditions, particularities of medical practice at the time of accident. Especially, the extraordinary nature of medical behavior of the medical service person being on duty in the emergency room seems to be admitted compared to that of the medical service person being on duty in ward.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.1-3
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• 2015

• 의학교육논단
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.116-116
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• 2016

• 의료법학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.317-343
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• 2014

In order to account for whether a doctor should indemnify damages resulted from violation of duty of care, the fact that a doctor violated duty of care, that damages were incurred, and the link between violation of duty of care and damages incurred, respectively, should be verified. So even though a doctor violated duty of care to patients, he or she will not bear the responsibility to indemnify damages unless it is not verified. If a doctor's negligence in medical practices is assessed that obviously unfaithful medical practice far exceeds the limit of admission of a patient, it will not go against people's general perception of justice or law and order to constitute a medical malpractice itself as an illegal action that will require liabiliy for damage. However, when the limit of admission is set too low, a patient's benefit and expectation of proper medical treatment can be violated. In contrast, if the limit of admission is set high, it can leave too little room for doctors' discretion for treatments due to a bigger risk of indemnification for damages. Thus, a reasonable balance that can satisfy both benefit and expectation of patients and doctors' right to treatment is needed.

• 의료법학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.3-29
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• 2014

The Supreme Court made a decision that the doctor cannot be punished for not taking a blood transfusion to the patient, depending on the patient's will to refuse the blood transfusion on June 24, 2014. The reason is that, in a special situation of conflict between the right of patients to self-determination and the duty of care, and when it was impossible to compare whether which has the superior value, if the doctor made a medical practice to respect either of those two values according to the professional sense, he cannot be punished. In principle, the doctor should make medical practices according to the patient's will. However, if the patient's life was at stake, I think, the doctor is obliged to try his best to save the life of patient. Yet to entrust the patient's life to the doctors professional sense, is to give up the obligation of the country to protect lives. In this regard, I think that the Supreme Court Decision should be reviewed, and that an ongoing research is needed.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.342-355
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• 1997

This research was carried out to determine the performance rate of health related practices, to measure the agreement between morbidity by doctor's diagnosis and morbidity by subject' self-reported and the degree of association between health related practices and morbidity rate by doctor's diagnosis, to identify their effects on morbidity among rural area populations. The data were gathered by volunteer residents (over the age of 20) of Haman Myeon, Haman Gun, Kyeongsangnam Do in Korea, from June 10, 1993 to June 12, 1993 (369 male and 516 female). Face to face interview, lab, chest P-A, EKG and physical examination were completed. Descriptive statistics, agreement analysis and multiple logistic regression procedures were employed for analyses. The results of the study were summarized as follows : 1) Age adjusted morbidity rates by doctor's diagnosis and self-reported were 38.5% (male:37.3%, female:36.5%), 26.4% (male:33.3%, female:27.5%), respectively. Kappa coefficient between morbidity by doctor's diagnosis and morbidity by self-reported was 0.21 (male:0.21, female:0.22). 2) The frequency of disease by doctor's diagnosis was as follows: hypertension(15.3%), gastritis (9.6%), diabetes mellitus (8.5%), live. disease (8.1%), and degenerative arthritis (6.2%) in the study population. 3) Order of health practice performance rate was as follows: Males-normal body weight (62.1%), non-heavy alcohol consumption (57.5%), 7-8 hours of sleeping (50.1%), non-smoking (21.7%), and exercise (19.8%). Females- non-heavy alcohol consumption (97.3%), non-smoking (84.7%), normal body weight (57.8%), 7-8 hours of sleeping (45.0%), and exercise (9.9%). 4) There was no significant relationship between health related practice and morbidity except exercise among health related practices. 5) Health related practice index which was recategorized by high, medium, and low had effects on the probability of developing morbidity.

• 대한본초학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.25-29
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• 2012

Objectives : This article reviews a solution preventing the illegal distribution of herbal medicine in common use for food and medicine and risks on public health by conducting safety management of food and medicine. Also, this article would like to contribute to improvement of public health treating diseases in compliance with accurate diagnosis and prescription of Oriental Medicine Doctor("OMD")'s. Methods : An approach in this research can be categorized into two : first, to examine the current administrative situation and problems of herbal medicine in common use for food and medicine based on policy documents of Ministry of Health and Welfare and Korea Food and Drug Adminstration("KFDA") and academic articles of the herbal medicine;second, to find reasonable administrative solutions to solve the problems. Solutions : A solution is to strengthen the management level of herbal medicine in common use for food and medicine by selecting 117 items as target items requiring concentrated management. In case herbal medicine is imported for food, KFDA strengthens the quality management level of herbal medicine by making use of inspection frequency at random, collecting and verifying herbal medicine on the market. However, KFDA decides to maintain current different quality specification system of food and medicine reflecting a civil complaint that quality specification of food and medicine should separately managed according to the purpose of use. Herbal medicine as medicine that is functioned as treating diseases and alleviating symptoms, unlike herbal medicine for food, can cure all kinds of diseases by recovering inner balance of human body, making use of other properties of herbal medicine. Medicine has its own properties. If a doctor uses properties of medicine appropriately, he cures diseases. If a doctor uses herbal medicine inappropriately. he may damage human body. Thus, whether side effects of medicine depend on a doctor who uses herbal medicine. Conclusions : All herbal medicine will be supplied into the market after strict safety control of manufacturers of herbal medicine according to the revised Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, beginning in April, 2012. Thus, people can take safer and more reliable herbal medicine through strengthening safety management of herbal medicine and improving quality and transparency in the distribution system. Herbal medicine should appropriately be prescribed by licensed OMD because herbal medicine is used to treat diseases and alleviate symptoms, unlike herbal medicine for food.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2012

Objectives: To undertake manpower-related improvements based on a comparison between specialists in the traditional Korean medicine hospitals(TKMH) and their counterparts in Western medicine Methods: A survey of the TKMH based on questionnaire sheets dispatched to them by mail(57 of 142 responded) in the June December, 2008 period, and on almanac statistics provided by the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs of Korean Government. Results: Overall, the workforce engaged in the traditional Korean medicine hospitals comprises traditional Korean medical doctors(28%), nurses(23%), administrative staffs(19%), assistant nurses(9%), medical record keepers(2%), nutritionists(2%), herbal pharmacists(1%), and others(16%). Each hospital has 16.5 traditional Korean medical doctors on average, which can be broken down into 6.2 specialists, 1.3 generalists, and 9.3 residents/interns. Only 10.7% of whole of traditional Korean medical doctors work in the hospitals, compared to 54.5% of Western medicine doctors. The ratio of traditional Korean medical doctors to the entirety of employees in the TKMH is 2.5 times higher than their Western medicine counterparts, while the ratio of medical technicians to the entire employees in the TKMH is 20 times lower than in the Western medicine counterparts. Conclusions: To provide more qualified medical service in the TKMH, they will be required to increase the proportion of non medical doctor employees, like Western medicine counterparts.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.310-322
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• 1998

국민들의 주치의에 대한 인식도 및 수요 등을 알아보고 주치의제도와 관련된 기초자료를 제공하기 위하여 1997년 1월 현재 서울시, 청주시, 안성군 3곳에 사는 주민들을 대상으로 3개 지역에서 각각 600 개씩 총 1,800개의 전화번호를 다단계 층화 무작위 표본추출(multi-stage stratified random sampling)하였다. 이와 같이 선정된 전화번호를 대상으로 각 지역마다 200명씩 조사가 완료될 때까지 20세 이상의 전 가구원을 대상으로 전화설문조사를 실시하였다. 이 조사 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 주치의가 있는지 여부를 물었을 때 남성은 9.9%, 여성은 13.2%가 가지고 있다고 응답하여 남녀간에 의미 있는 차이가 없었다. 이를 전체로 보면 11.9%가 주치의를 가지고 있는 반면 85.4%는 가지고 있지 않았고 2.7%는 모른다고 응답했으며 이는 지역별로 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 또한 학력 수준에 따른 차이는 없었으며, 연령이 증가할수록 주치의를 가진 사람들이 많았다. 2. 현재 주치의가 어떤 과 의사인지를 살펴보면 내과의사 62.1%, 일반외과 의사 12.1%, 소아과 의사 6.1%, 한의사 4.5% 순이었다. 이를 남녀별로 비교해본 결과 한의사를 주치의로 둔 남자는 20명중 3명(15%) 이었으나 여자들은 한 명도 한의사를 주치의로 두고 있지 않았다. 이외의 모든 과 에서 남녀간에 통계학적인 차이가 없었다. 지역별로는 서울 지역보다는 안성, 청주 등 지방에 거주하는 사람들이 내과의사를 주치의로 두고 있는 경향을 보였다. 3. 주치의로 삼고 싶은 진료과목은 내과가 61.8%로 가장 많았고, 가정의가 15.9%로 두 번째였으며, 그밖에 소아과 5.8%, 산부인과와 한의사가 각각 5.6%였다. 여자들이 남자들에 비해 가정의학과, 산부인과를 선호하고 있고, 여자들에 비해 남자들이 내과를 더욱 선호하고 있었다. 이들 과를 제외한 다른 과 에서는 남녀간 차이가 없었다. 지역별로는 청주 지역에서 가정의학과 의사를 선호하고 있었고, 내과 의사인 경우 지역별로 선호도의 차이는 없었다. 또한 학력이 높을수록 가정의학과를 선호하고 있었고, 내과 의사에 대한 선호도는 학력 수준과 관련성이 없었다. 4. 주치의 등록제에 대해서 들어본 적이 있느냐는 질문에 16.0%만이 알고 있다고 응답했고, 84.0%는 모른다고 응답했다. 이와 같은 인지율은 남녀간에 차이가 없었다(p>0.05). 서울 지역에 거주하는 사람들이 여타 지역보다 인지율이 높은 것을 알 수 있었다. 5. 주치의 등록제가 시행될 경우 등록할 생각이 있느냐는 질문에 48.0%는 그렇다고 대답했으며, 17.4%는 할 생각이 없다고 응답했고, 34.6%는 잘 모르겠다고 응답했다. 남자들이 여자들보다 유의하게 등록 의사를 가진 사람들이 많았고, 대도시 지역으로 갈수록 등록 의사를 가진 사람들이 많았다. 또한 학력이 높을수록 등록 의사가 많았다. 6. 주치의 등록을 하겠다는 경우에 등록하는 이유에 대해서 질문한 결과 건강을 지키는데 도움이 될 것 같아서가 68.2%, 병원 이용이 편해질 것 같아서가 28.7%, 보험료 혜택이 있으니까가 2.3% 등이었다. 7. 주치의 등록제를 이용하지 않는다면 어떤 이유에서인지를 물은 결과 귀찮기만 하고 도움이 될 것 같지 않아서가 68.8%, 주치의 등록료가 너무 비싸서와 보험료 혜택이 적어서가 각각 10.9%, 7.81% 등이었다. 8. 1인당 1년에 2만원인 주치의 등록료에 대한 의견을 물은 결과 적당하다는 의견이 63.1%, 비싸다는 의견이 32.7%, 싸다는 의견이 4.2%였다. 이를 남녀별로 비교한 결과 여자들이 등록료에 대하여 유의하게 비싸다고 생각하고 있었으며, 지역별로는 차이가 없었다. 또한 학력이 낮을수록 1년에 1인당 2만원인 현행의 주치의 등록료에 대하여 너무 많다고 생각하는 사람들이 많았다.