Eulji University is a private healthcare and medical research university in South Korea with campuses in
Seongnam City
Seongnam () is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential cit ...
,
Gyeonggi Province
Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...
, and in central
Daejeon
Daejeon () is South Korea's fifth-largest metropolis, with a population of 1.5 million as of 2019. Located in the central-west region of South Korea alongside forested hills and the Geum River, the city is known both for its technology and ...
. The school was established by Dr. Park Jun-yeong and the Eulji Educational Foundation, which grew out of the Eulji Hospital that opened in 1981.
Organization
Eulji University has a College of Nursing, a Department of Medicine that includes undergraduate
pre-medical
Pre-medical (often referred to as pre-med) is an educational track that undergraduate students in the United States pursue prior to becoming medical students. It involves activities that prepare a student for medical school, such as pre-med course ...
and graduate
medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...
s, a College of Health Sciences that includes dentistry, emergency medicine, radiological science, biomedical engineering, physical therapy, and cosmetic medicine, a College of Health Industry that includes nutrition, environmental and safety fields, medical information technology, marketing and management, early childhood education, mortuary science and addiction and social services fields, and a Department of Liberal Arts. The Graduate School includes most of the major undergraduate medical fields, as well as clinical psychology, senior healthcare and ophthalmology.
The original Eulji Hospital in Seoul remains in operation, along with a
teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...
in Daejeon.
See also
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Education in South Korea
Education in South Korea is provided by both public schools and private schools. Both types of schools receive funding from the government, although the amount that the private schools receive is less than the amount of the state schools.
Sout ...
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List of medical schools in South Korea
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List of universities and colleges in South Korea
This is a list of institutions of higher education in South Korea.
Quick index
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* Agricultural Cooperative College – Goyang, Gyeonggi
* Ajou Motor College – Boryeong, South Chungcheong
*Ajou University – Suwon, Gyeonggi
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External links
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School website, in English
Universities and colleges in Daejeon
Medical schools in South Korea
Hospitals established in 1981
Jung District, Daejeon
Seongnam
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