Seonam Univ College of Medicine graduates at risk of being cancelled of diploma
Seonam Univ College of Medicine graduates at risk of being cancelled of diploma
Dreams to become doctors on the verge of ending in bubbles
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[SEOUL=Health/Medical News] 134 graduates of Seounam University, College of Medicine are on the verge of getting their diplomas cancelled.

Ministry of Education, Science and Technology warned 20 Jan that it may close the university if the institution does not implement correction measures such as cancellation of diploma for 134 medical graduates within two months according to special inspection on Seonam Univ. It is because the facts that the university managed and operated the foundation in an inapproriate manners such as embezzling tens of billions of educational expenditure and granting diplomas to the medical students who lack grade points and the number of clinical trial experiences were uncovered.

Accoding to inspection results, Mr. Lee, founder of Seonam Univ, embezzled 33.048 billion won to use personally and for the foundation of another university under borrowed name while operating a corporate planning office at Seonam Uni Hospital in Gwangju.

He is also known to forge the presence of board members and univ staff and deliberate and resolve the settlement of accounts without the confirmation of settlement inspection by the auditor.

Seonam Univ, in order to evade from being designated as tuition loan-limited university, employed eighteen univ staff and seven nurses as full-time staff, bluffing the ratio of univ staff employment rate and also falsified entrance exam results and dropout rate.

The unive also 'exaggerated' the number of enrolled students to 7400 from 3557 as of April 2012. It was in an effort to get high scores in the appraisal of universities for designating as limited governmental financial support. The number of students on leave was reduced from 1335 to zero.

In this context, the ministry urged that Seonam Unive fire the President of the university, Mr. Kim, and the amount of embezzlement be restored from the founder, Mr. Lee.

Seonam Univ has shown poor perfomance in the educational process of its college of medicine, above all.

It did not offer required educational curricula, folsifying the completion of grade points granting the degrees of bachelor of medicine to 134 students.

According to the inspection, Seonam college of medicine alleged that it operated 13,596 hours of clinical trial education, but in fact the hours reached 8,034 due to lack of in- and outpatients.

In spite of the situation, Seonam College of Medicine gave 1,626 grade points to 148 students and granted the degree of bachelr of medicine to 134 students among them.

And despite the fact that the university hospital did not meet the standard for designating as intern process and teaching hospital due to substantial lack of the number of yearly actual number of discharged patients and bed usage rate, it had operated from 29 Aug 2011 to 11 Oct 2012 the educational curricula for clinical experiences, granting a total of 680 grade points to 42 students during two semesters.

Making matters worse, the investigation also revealed that the university allotted the staff to being in charge of dispatch and commission education without confirmation of qualification of doctors as qualified medical visiting teachers and even without actual commission from 19 jan 2009 to 28 Nov 2012.

The ministry orderd that its doctors including head of medical department be heavily punished and the 148 students who lacked proper clinical education be cancelled of their grade points and diplomas received by 134 graduates who do not qualify for graduation be nullified.

The ministry also said, "If the judgment is made that normal management of the college even after the correction orders may be impoosible, the approval for university executives will be cancelled and closing the university will be considered. Whether the cancellation of diplomas and licenses will be determined through the collabotation with Ministry of Health and Welfare after hearing the university's action plan and explanation within one month. "

This might be the first timw when cancellation of medical diplomas is made. If the cancellation materializes, it will be the first time in history where the actual cancellation of license is done for the interns and residents working in a teching hospital.

The undergraduates of Seonam College of Medicine are expected to face such reality.

Kim Jae-geum, head of department for advancement and support of universities, previously said at the explanation meeting for protecting students' rights of education in poor-performing colleges of medicine held at Congress, "If the college and department are closed, as penalty for poor education, additional education could ne levied on the undergraduates."

Meanwhile, Since Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is also inspecting Hanryo Univ, Gwangyang Healthcare College, Singyeong College, the possibility cannot be totally excluded that the size of embezzlement could get larger and additionally expelled colleges will happen.

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