Profession In Korea Research Articles

The senior anesthesiologists and their medical profession in Korea: based on a survey.

BackgroundThe number of aging physicians is increasing as the global population ages. With aging, anesthesiologists would be expected to experience changes in their professional position. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the current professional status of Korean anesthesiologists aged over 60 years.MethodsRegistered anesthesiologists aged over 60 years in Korea were invited for a survey. The questionnaire addressed 10 subjects with 40 questions that focused on demographics, practical activities, work conditions, difficulties experienced due to physical changes caused by aging, and economic status.ResultsIn total, 122 anesthesiologists responded to the survey (response rate: 15.7%). Of them, 30.3% were working in honorary and advisory positions at tertiary hospitals, while 19.7% were working as pain physicians. Majority of the respondents were working for 5 days a week (41.8%) and 6–8 hours/day (48.4%). Majority of them (79.5%) were generally satisfied with their present life.ConclusionsMajority of the senior anesthesiologists were working at general hospitals and they reported being “satisfied” with the current status of their life. However, the clinical practice and retirement strategies of senior anesthesiologists need to be evaluated systematically to prepare for the continuing gradual increase in the number of senior anesthesiologists.

Struggling for professional identity

Abstract Despite growing academic interest in the personal experiences of translators and interpreters with a focus on status, identity, role and ethics, and job satisfaction, there have been few academic attempts to inquire into the experiences of respective genders in the profession. Also, outside of T&I studies, most occupational research has examined the experience of women in male-dominated fields. Thus, the current study aims to shed light on the professional experiences and challenges of male interpreters working in a predominantly female profession in Korea. Taking a qualitative approach to interpret the male experience from a temporal, spatial, and cultural context, a narrative inquiry was conducted with male conference interpreters currently working in Korea to closely examine the struggles they experience in the process of their professional identity formation. Data analysis reveals that male interpreters face extreme gender bias and stereotypes at work, and struggle with issues such as emotional remoteness with colleagues, job insecurity, and crisis of identity stemming from an unstable social status for male interpreters.

The Impact of U.S. Army Nurses on the Development of the Nursing Profession in South Korea

The purpose of this article is to identify the influences of U.S. Army nurses on the nursing profession in South Korea, focusing on the interactions between U.S. Army nurses and Korean nurses during the Korean War. The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, stationed in South Korea during the Korean War, greatly influenced Korean nursing practices. U.S. Army nurses helped professionalize nursing, exemplified gender equality, and influenced traditional cultural and gender norms in South Korea. In this article, we discuss the contributions made by U.S. Army nurses to the nursing profession in South Korea. We qualitatively analyzed 21 American and 24 Korean historical articles ( n = 45) and conducted in-depth interviews with three Korean veterans who were nurses during the Korean War. According to the Korean nurses, the U.S. Army Nurse Corps helped to shift cultural attitudes about gender and the nursing profession in Korea and to motivate Korean nurses to empower themselves. The U.S. Army Nurse Corps provided more than humanitarian relief by raising the consciousness of Korean nurses about gender roles and their profession. The U.S. Army Nurse Corps helped pave the way for modern, scientific, and professional nursing in Korea.

The Diagnosis of the Dance Curriculum to Improve Secondary Physical Education Teacher's Profession in Korea

The Diagnosis of the Dance Curriculum to Improve Secondary Physical Education Teacher's Profession in Korea

The 'Americanization' of Legal Education in South Korea: Challenges and Opportunities

In 2007, Korea reformed its legal education system from one consisting of an undergraduate degree, “cram school,” and a national bar exam with a less than 5% pass rate, to an American-style three year graduate law school system. The reform was instituted to expand and diversify the legal profession in Korea and to meet the demands of an increasingly globalizing economy. The first class of students graduating from the new law schools in February 2012 will face an environment that is not yet prepared to accommodate them. In this article, I explore the economic, cultural and pedagogical challenges posed by the reform. I also discuss the opportunities afforded by adopting a law school model that is in the midst of being re-evaluated. I argue that Korean law schools should implement some key recommendations for reform in U.S. schools. By learning from the U.S. experience, Korea can develop its own effective legal education model.

Characteristics associated with intent to stay among Quality Improvement nurses

The study aims to investigate characteristics associated with intent to stay among Quality Improvement (QI) nurses in Korean hospitals. QI nurses have recently emerged as a new specialty area in the nursing profession in Korea. They have played a major role in coordinating and facilitating hospital-wide QI activities. However, their frequent turnover degrades the continuity of overall QI programmes and incurs additional costs in human resource management. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was administered to 123 QI nurses in 123 general hospitals. The collected data included their hospital and department characteristics, work demand, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and demographics. The response rate was 94.3% (n=116). Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the factors associated with intent to stay. Only 32.8% intended to stay in their current job. Significant factors associated with intent to stay were affective commitment and work demands. QI nurses with a higher level of affective commitment were more likely to stay [odds ratios (OR)=2.50], whereas those with higher quantitative work demands in QI education and support were less likely to stay (OR=0.40). The findings indicated that intent to stay was closely associated with work environment characteristics. Efforts to enhance their affective commitment and support their workload management are needed to increase the retention of qualified and experienced QI nurses.

한국에서 의료 전문직의 개념과 논의

There are high dissatisfactions and crisis perceptions about socioeconomic status of physicians among Korean physicians. Determining which is profession distinguished from general occupations is not easy, meanwhile theoretical and systematic knowledge, professional ethics and society, service-oriented trait and high job autonomy are general characteristics of profession. considering these characteristics, Physicians are typical profession in Korea. There are two different perspectives about physician as a profession. First is structural functionalism. In this perspective, medical knowledge itself implies the legitimation of medical profession and its social status. In contrast, social status of medical profession is determined by the way how medical knowledge is constructed socially rather medical knowledge itself in perspective of confliction theory. High job pride and low ethical consciousness, sensitivity for group interest and insufficient social contact skill, confusion about job identity and anxiety for the future are current situation of Korean physicians roughly. Nowadays, reflective education about society and medicine, humanistic training for understanding of human and medicine is required in training of physicians in medical school. One reason to discuss about medical professionalism is to get trust from general citizens and to have a rational status of medical profession through it. This can not be achist d by short-term remedies, but is a long term work can be done by reflections and efforts of all medical doctors. Therefore, the issue of medical professionalism should be pursued and discussed thoroughly and the future of Korean physicians status would be influenced deeply by these activities.

Veterinary Anatomy Education in Korea

In Korea, there are 10 veterinary schools and about 500 new veterinarians are produced annually. Veterinary education is 6‐year‐system composed of pre‐veterinary (2 yrs) and veterinary course (4 yrs). Total of 28 to 33 subjects are taught in professional curriculum, including 21 of 23 subjects recommended by the World Veterinary Association (WVA) as minimum requirements for veterinary education. Only economics and botany are excluded. Currently, 6648 veterinarians are active in the profession in Korea; about 31% of these in clinical practice and 69% in non‐clinical areas. Korea has 3.5 million pets, 10.4 million livestocks, 105 million chickens, and 0.5 million other animals. In general, 630 livestock units (LU) are covered by each veterinarian. With improvement of economic status and life style change, the number and variety of species of companion animals are expanding, accordingly. Also the importance of molecular biology is recognized and included in the professional curriculum. In these changing times, it is believed that gross anatomy, histology and embryology are essential integral component of found in veterinary education. But the teaching hours of histology, embryology and gross anatomy have reduced 15% during last 5 years due to new subjects. Total teaching hours in professional curriculum is about 4100 hours (pre‐clinical 29%, paraclinical 32%, clinical course 38%). Average 200 hours are allocated for gross anatomy, histology and embryology lecture and average 250 hours for laboratory practice. The number of students per class ranges 40–80 depending on schools. The ratio of male and female students is 6–4, and the teaching faculty and students 1–22. The Korean Association of Veterinary Anatomists (KAVA) recommend one cow, five dogs, two pigs, five goats and 20 chickens per 20 students to be used for the dissection. The students are evaluated using various types of exam such as assignments, written and oral tests. Recently some schools are beginning to adopt block lectures and/or PBL.

The Status of Translators and Interpreters in Korea

The status of interpreters and translators depends on the society in which they belong. Such factors as whether the society is multilingual, monolingual as well as its international standing all impact their status and consequently financial compensation. A brief overview of the history of the status of Korean interpreters reveals that, in the past, they enjoyed middle class status and, at times, even great wealth. The social importance of translators, on the other hand, was negligible—a situation which was aggravated by the fact that readers were not very demanding. During the modern era, and especially with increased foreign trade in the 1980’s, however, such tolerance was no longer the norm. There is still great interest among the general public in interpretation, especially since speaking English fluently is considered an asset in any profession in Korea. Conference interpreters, as such, are considered to be “master” English speakers. While they are envied their fluent mastery of foreign languages, interpretation, as such, is not considered a profession in which one should devote one’s life. In the case of translation, though there are many translators, they are held in even lower esteem than interpreters because of the relatively low pay.

The Evolution of Occupational Therapy Profession in Korea

The Evolution of Occupational Therapy Profession in Korea

Learning from PISA. Reasons and remedies for student under-performance in reading, maths and science.

The great competition is over, the judges have given their marks and the chalk dust has settled over the arena. A few hurt prides pick themselves up off the floor, and set about the painful task of finding out what went wrong and why they did not fare as well as they expected. This is not the aftermath of the winter Olympics, rather the results of the PISA study, the Programme for International Student Assessment. The largest world‐wide test of student performance ever conducted, it provides a much needed assessment of how well various countries educate their children. And PISA served up a can of worms to some diners who can afford to pay for duck a l'orange, while other less wealthy guests came away substantially more satisfied. Many of the fatter countries had quietly been intellectually malnourishing their most important resource: school children. Investment in basic requirements is important, but what PISA revealed is that money is certainly not everything in education. It is other important factors, notably student motivation, teacher training, the role of parents and a well‐established infrastructure, that have put countries such as Finland and (South) Korea at the top of the list. For other countries, many of whom spend more money per student, PISA has been a rude awakening to the urgent need for change. In Germany it has stirred an intense debate—aside from the mutual finger‐pointing that usually follows bad results—as to how to achieve a long overdue and radical overhaul of the country's education system. Barely a day passes without a press release concerning ‘reforms’, ‘improvements’ and ‘opportunities’ in education. > PISA served up a can of worms to some diners who can afford to pay for duck a l'orange To appreciate the significance of PISA, it pays to know how the study was …

Legal Profession in Korea: The Judicial Scrivener and Others

Legal Profession in Korea: The Judicial Scrivener and Others