Once you have completed the supplementary education/training and before you can apply for a licence to practise as a doctor, you must do a medical internship (AT). During your medical internship, you are employed as an intern with a private or governmental employer. If you work as a substitute, you are not able to include those hours in the calculation of your medical internship. In order to be able to do a medical internship, you need a special arrangement from the employer.
During your medical internship, you must work a minimum of eighteen months. You may choose to perform your medical internship on a part-time basis however it must add up to a total of 18 months of full-time practise (i.e. thirty-six months at 50% of full- time). You will need to work a minimum of
You must complete your medical internship on a block appointment (blockförordnande) – a limited-term contiguous employment position of a minimum of eighteen months. If you change employers, you must obtain a new medical internship block, and your former employer must approve the sections that you have already done in order for you to be able to include that time in the calculations of your medical internship.
Contact us at the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. You can send an e-mail at socialstyrelsen@socialstyrelsen.se or call us at 075-247 30 00.