[Medigate News, Reporter Lee Ji-won]
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW) and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) announced on the 6th that they held the launch briefing session and the first council meeting for the “Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialized Convergence Talent Development Project” at the Nine Tree Premier Locaus Hotel in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.
The MoHW has selected six universities—Kyung Hee University, Seoul National University, Sungkyunkwan University, Ajou University, Chung-Ang University, and Hallym University—with the goal of fostering key convergence talents required across the entire process of technology development and commercialization in the medical AI field. Each university will receive an annual budget of approximately 1 billion KRW from this year through 2029, with 750 million KRW allocated in 2025.
Accordingly, these universities will open detailed courses in specialized fields such as AI-based diagnosis and prediction, AI-driven drug and therapeutic development, and AI-enabled medical device development. To nurture multidisciplinary talent, programs will involve participation from various departments including medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and engineering.
In particular, collaborative systems will be established between universities and hospitals or bio-health companies that hold medical data, enabling practical training in medical AI. Student-participation projects and internship programs will also be supported, with the aim of producing more than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate convergence talents in medical AI over the next five years.
At the launch briefing session and first council meeting, participants shared the government’s project direction and discussed measures such as establishing mutual credit recognition for joint curriculum operations, and plans for co-hosting performance-sharing sessions and competitions.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, measures were also prepared to provide lecture and training datasets created by researchers from other R&D projects.
Baek Young-ha, Director of the Health and Medical Data Promotion Division, stated,
“Medical AI is a core technology that will fundamentally transform the healthcare paradigm. The cultivation of convergence talents equipped with expertise in both AI and medicine/pharmacy is more important than ever. The government will continue to create a talent development ecosystem that connects education, research, and industry through ongoing communication and cooperation with the field.”
[Medigate News, Reporter Lee Ji-won]
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW) and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) announced on the 6th that they held the launch briefing session and the first council meeting for the “Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialized Convergence Talent Development Project” at the Nine Tree Premier Locaus Hotel in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.
The MoHW has selected six universities—Kyung Hee University, Seoul National University, Sungkyunkwan University, Ajou University, Chung-Ang University, and Hallym University—with the goal of fostering key convergence talents required across the entire process of technology development and commercialization in the medical AI field. Each university will receive an annual budget of approximately 1 billion KRW from this year through 2029, with 750 million KRW allocated in 2025.
Accordingly, these universities will open detailed courses in specialized fields such as AI-based diagnosis and prediction, AI-driven drug and therapeutic development, and AI-enabled medical device development. To nurture multidisciplinary talent, programs will involve participation from various departments including medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and engineering.
In particular, collaborative systems will be established between universities and hospitals or bio-health companies that hold medical data, enabling practical training in medical AI. Student-participation projects and internship programs will also be supported, with the aim of producing more than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate convergence talents in medical AI over the next five years.
At the launch briefing session and first council meeting, participants shared the government’s project direction and discussed measures such as establishing mutual credit recognition for joint curriculum operations, and plans for co-hosting performance-sharing sessions and competitions.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, measures were also prepared to provide lecture and training datasets created by researchers from other R&D projects.
Baek Young-ha, Director of the Health and Medical Data Promotion Division, stated,
“Medical AI is a core technology that will fundamentally transform the healthcare paradigm. The cultivation of convergence talents equipped with expertise in both AI and medicine/pharmacy is more important than ever. The government will continue to create a talent development ecosystem that connects education, research, and industry through ongoing communication and cooperation with the field.”