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Swedish Medical Association
Professional association for medical doctors and students
The Swedish Medical Association (SMA) is the union and professional organization for medical doctors and medical students in Sweden. In the main, it deploys activities on behalf the Swedish doctors' employment conditions, ethics, working environment, and also regarding patient safety.[1]
Organization
[edit]The Swedish Medical Association was founded in Its membership in February was officially given as 54,,[2] which comprises about 85 percent of the medical doctors in the country.[3] About a third of medical doctors working in Sweden come from foreign countries,[4] and membership in the organization is granted irrespectively of citizenship.[5]
Membership of medical students comprises 75 percent [6] of all medical students in Sweden, whose total number is 8,[7]
Since , the organization's chair is Sofia Rydgren Stale.
The organization owns the Swedishmedical journalLäkartidningen.
The Swedish doctors’ professional associations
[edit]The Swedish Medical Association is divided into eight professional sections
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Sweden consistently ranks amongst the best places in the world to live and raise children. Perhaps this has something to do with the five weeks of legally mandated vacation, days of paid parental leave, free education including university, and heavily-subsidized child care. Here is a guide to practicing medicine in Sweden.
Sweden’s Health Care System
Sweden provides single payer, universal health insurance, funded by taxes. All residents are automatically enrolled and provided coverage for inpatient, outpatient, dental, mental health, and long term care; prescription medications are also covered. The country is divided into “Regions” that administer healthcare, typically through primary care centers and hospitals. Each region sets provider reimbursement and copayments. About 13 percent of employed people have private insurance for improved access to specialists.
Hospitals range from smaller community hospitals, to regional Länssjukhus, to tertiary care University Hospitals. A regional hospital manages most conditions except complicated surgery such as transplants or neurosurgery, complicated oncological treatments such as Bone Marrow Transplants, and subspecialized pediatr
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Your link to Sweden
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In beställning to achieve long-term employment within the Swedish healthcare system, you have to possess a Swedish medical licence (legitimation). This licence is issued by a Swedish authority called Socialstyrelsen. Speaking Swedish at advanced (C1) level is one of the requirements you have to fulfill. For other requirements click here.
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