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Yukyung Shin

PhD Candidate

Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Ceped (UPC)

Research Interest(s): Rationalisation of medicine, Health system reform, Working conditions of healthcare workers

Discipline(s): Sociology

Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Work, Employment and Professions, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Biography

Professional Experience

  • 2024 - Occupational Health Manager, Minjung Industrial Health Center, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2022 - Director, Committee for the Intern Resident Work and Training Survey, Korean Intern Resident Association  

Education

  • Since 2025 - PhD student at the CSO
  • 2024 - Master’s Student in Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris, France
  • 2021–2023 - Master of Science in Medicine (Health Policy and Management Major), Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (Thesis title: “The effect of regulating brain MRI utilization based on explicit rationing criteria: A study of physician decision making processes in South Korea”)
  • 2021–2023 - Resident in preventive medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2020–2021 - Medical intern, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2014–2020 - Doctor of Medicine (MD), Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (Cum Laude) 

Thesis topic

Sociology thesis in progress (since march 2025): What healthcare is appropriate ? The case of sick leave prescriptions by liberal physicians in France. 

Co-supervision: Patrick Castel (CSO) and Valéry Ridde (Ceped).