The news article in Swedish:Läkartidningen (translated from Swedish) skrev:Socialstyrelsen recently denied a specialist physician a continued exception from the medical license requirement. An administrative/management court ruled in their favour but the Uppsala University Hospital (UUH) is making an appeal to a higher court.
The physician in question is a radiologist from Egypt, who has been working as one of two specialists in neural intervention at the UUH during 2012 and 2013. Socialstyrelsen granted him a temporary exception from the medical license requirement while he was to learn the Swedish language to a degree sufficient for applying for a full Swedish medical license. According to the UUH's plan of studying for the physician, he is supposed to meet the language requirements next year and then be able to apply for the medical license.
However, Socialstyrelsen now denies a continued exception, stating that the purpose of the exceptions is only for temporary employment of foreign physicians. They now say that they want this physician to learn sufficient Swedish and also to undergo the AT internship before applying for a Swedish medical license.
The UUH, however, are of the opinion that the physician quite well meets the medical requirements facing a neural interventionist. He has been working independently with neural intervention at the hospital, as well as teaching and doing research. The UUH think AT is not necessary because the physician is already a specialist. The UUH also stresses that there is a shortage of neural interventionists both in Sweden and abroad, meaning that if he is not allowed to continue working it will mean that many patients with cerebral haemorrhaging would have to be sent to other places of healthcare, sometimes even to other countries.
http://www.lakartidningen.se/Aktuellt/N ... pecialist/
