Amid a spate of errors in medical treatments and rising consciousness among patients about their rights, university medical faculties are being forced to undergo reforms to enrich doctors' social skills.
Efforts to do away with research-first education and emphasize clinical practice are gradually being implemented, as are steps to change the feudalistic medical office system in which professors reign and their juniors are akin to slaves.
Senior doctors lament the increasing number of young doctors who cannot communicate with their patients, nurses or even their families.