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Foreign Doctors and the Road to a Swedish Medical License: Experienced barriers of doctors from non-EU countries
Södertörn University, School of Life Sciences.
2012 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This thesis in Global Development has looked at the personal experiences of non-European medical doctors that have migrated to Sweden to find out what they have encountered during the process of trying to obtain a Swedish medical license and if there are signs of discrimination. Sweden has a shortage of doctors, but has not resorted to brain drain. Contrary, it is difficult for non-European doctors to work as doctors in Sweden.

This thesis has used a qualitative research strategy and five non-European unemployed doctors that were trying to get Swedish medical licenses as well as one non-European doctor that was working, were interviewed. Empirical data from a seminar with Swedish doctors about the pro-cess that foreign doctors have to go through to be able to work in Sweden has also been used in this thesis.

The results showed that doctors from non-European countries have stricter requirements to fulfill in order to be able to practice medicine in Sweden than doctors coming from European countries. The system for accepting foreign doctors and validating their competence was flawed. The pro-cess was confusing, frustrating and unnecessarily long. Although there was no direct discrimina-tion or prejudice, European doctors were favored by the system.

Abstract [sv]

Denna C-uppsats i Global Utveckling har tittat på personliga erfarenheter av icke-europeiska läkare som har migrerat till Sverige för att ta reda på vad de har stött på under processen av att skaffa svensk läkarlegitimation och om det finns tecken på diskriminering. Sverige har brist på läkare, men har inte tillgripit ”brain drain”. Tvärtemot är det svårt för icke-europeiska läkare att arbeta som läkare i Sverige.

En kvalitativ forskningsstrategi har använts och fem icke-europeiska arbetslösa läkare som försökte få svenska läkarlegitimationer samt en icke-europeisk läkare som arbetade intervjuades. Empiriska data från ett seminarium med svenska läkare som handlade om processen som utländska läkare måste gå igenom för att kunna arbeta i Sverige har också använts i denna C-uppsats.

Resultaten visade att läkare från icke-europeiska länder har strängare krav att uppfylla för att kunna arbeta som läkare i Sverige än läkare som kommer från europeiska länder. Systemet för att ta emot icke-europeiska läkare och validera deras kompetens var bristfällig. Processen var förvirrande, frustrerande och onödigt lång. Även om det inte fanns någon direkt diskriminering, så var europeiska läkare gynnade av systemet.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. , p. 45
Keywords [en]
medical migration, postcolonal theory, Sweden
Keywords [sv]
medicinsk migration, postkolonial teori, Sverige
National Category
Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-16842OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-16842DiVA, id: diva2:541360
Subject / course
Global Development
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2012-08-20 Created: 2012-07-17 Last updated: 2012-08-20Bibliographically approved

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