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About a third of medical doctors working in Sweden come from foreign countries, and membership in the organization is granted irrespectively of citizenship. Membership of medical students comprises 75 percent of all medical students in Sweden, whose total number is 8,100. Since 2020, the organization's chair is Sofia Rydgren Stale.
Karolinska Institute is a medical university and research institute in Stockholm, Sweden. It awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and has a history of medical education and innovation since 1810.
A surgeon is a doctor who performs surgical operations. The Swedish Army's surgeons were named after their military rank: surgeon-captain, surgeon-major, surgeon-general, closest corresponding to the Swedish överfältläkare ("Surgeon-General"), but not generalfältläkare ("Surgeon-Field General"), because there were several surgeon-generals within the English Army. [3]
Learn about the government-funded, universal and decentralized healthcare system in Sweden. Find out how it is managed, financed, and accessed by citizens and patients.
An international medical graduate (IMG) is a physician who has graduated from a medical school outside of the country where he or she intends to practice. Learn about the license requirements, certification processes, and residency programs for IMGs in different countries.
Vårdförbundet is a trade union for nurses, midwives, biomedical scientists and radiographers in Sweden. It has 114,000 members and is affiliated with TCO, PSI and ICN.
The Swedish Armed Forces Centre for Defence Medicine (Swedish: Försvarsmedicincentrum, FömedC) is a tri-service military medicine center in the Swedish Armed Forces.Its staff is made up of officers, civilian specialists, group commanders and officer reservists – tasked with ensuring care is provided during peacetime, on international missions, at times of crisis and in combat.
At pharmacies in Sweden, pharmacists work together with another class of legislated health care professionals called Receptarier, in English so-called prescriptionists, who have completed studies equal to a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy, i.e., three years of university. Prescriptionists also have dispensing rights in Sweden, Norway, Finland ...