Public Health Doctor


Public Health Doctor is a service system under Conscription in South Korea, which allows persons subject to conscription with a medical license to serve in doctorless villages, public hospitals, or public health centers without doctors.
Those who are subject to conscription with a medical license are eligible for selection. The selection of those Subject to Conscription with a Medical license or in the case of some medical officer candidates. They are selected if necessary for private public hospitals. No military doctor quota has been established.

History

  • 1979: According to the "Act on Special Measures for Health and Medical Services in Nation Citizens" revised on December 8, 1978, public health work was required for those who were included in the military register of reserve officers who qualified as doctors from 1979. This is the beginning of the Public Health Doctor concept. In that year, 604 public health doctors were deployed to farming and fishing villages.
  • December 31, 1980: The "Act on Special Measures for Health and Medical Services in Nation Citizens" and "Act on the Basis for Public Health Doctors" changed to the "Act on Special Measures for Health and Medical Services in Agricultural and Fishing Villages".
  • 1990: Service status and military rank in the Public Health Doctor changed from Reserve Officer to Supplementary Private for the "Act on the Regulation of Special Cases of Compulsory Military Service.

Deployed Medical facilities

Medical facilities that deploy Public Health Doctors include: