Biomedical scientist educated within EU or EEA

In order for the National Board of Health and Welfare to process your application, you must submit a certificate of good standing or a certificate of current professional status.

The certificate must:

• confirm that you have not been restricted in your occupation due to professional negligence or criminal action
• be issued within three months from the date of your application
• be issued by the competent auhtority in the country where you obtained your qualifications. Please note that your university is not a competent authority.

For information about competent authorities, see the Regulated Professions Database.

Certain educations within the EU can generally be automatically recognised. In order for the National Board of Health and Welfare to automatically recognise your professional qualifications, we need a certificate that proves your education, a Certificate of Conformity.

The certificate must

• confirm that your training complies with the EU Directive, Annex V, Directive 2005/36/EG
• contain information about your personal data
• be issued by the competent authority in your country of education. Please note that your university is not the competent authority.

For information on competent authorities, see the Regulated Professions Database.

To be able to get a Swedish licence, you need to have language skills in Swedish, Danish or Norwegian. This applies even if you are a citizen of Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Norway. Send a certified copy of your diploma or other certificate showing your language skills with your licence application.

To certify your language skills, you must have a passing grade or certificate in one of the following:

• Swedish at Level C1 in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (GERS)
• Swedish, level 3 or Swedish as a foreign language, level 3 for example from Komvux (upper secondary adult education)
• Swedish, Norwegian or Danish from high school (gymnasiet) or another course or a test that makes you eligible for studying at a Swedish university/college, go to antagning.se.

You can also prove your language skills by letting a health care provider assess if you have the language skills that are needed in order to work in your profession, which means that language skills should be at the equivalent level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (GERS). The health care provider should fill in the form and describe how the assessment has been made.

Blankett för bedömning av språkkunskaper (pdf)

The assessment of your language skills is to be made by an operational manager.
The assessment must include the following:

• a detailed description of your language skills in terms of listening and reading comprehension, speaking and writing skills
• a detailed description of how the assessment was made
• a description of the tasks you have performed and during what period.

If you do not know any of the languages, we recommend that you start learning Swedish as soon as you have decided that you want to work in Sweden.

When a certificate of professional experience is mandatory

If the country in which you obtained your qualifications does not regulate your profession and it also does not regulate training for your profession, you must submit proof that you have practised the profession in question for at least 1 year during the last 10 years.

The certificate must:

• state what position you held
• be dated and signed by your employer
• contain the exact dates of your employment, average number of hours undertaken per month and description of duties.

Please note that an employment contract is not sufficient!

When a certificate of professional experience is optional

In some cases the National Board of Health and Welfare will asses both your training and professional experience. If you have any professional experience it could be beneficial for your application. You have the option to submit proof of professional experience with your application.

The fee for applying for a licence is SEK 990. Please send your payment to Bankgiro 790‑3750 when you send in your application. Write your Swedish social security number (personnummer) in the message box in the format YYYYMMDDXXXX, without hyphens, dashes or spaces.

If you do not have a Swedish social security number, you enter your coordination number in the format YYYYMMDDXXXX, i.e. without hyphens or spaces.

If you do not have a social security number or coordination number, you enter your date of birth in the format YYYYMMDD and your name in the format firstnamesurname, i.e. without hyphens or spaces.

Remember that even if someone else makes the payment for you, it is still your personal date that must be filled in (security nummer, coordination number or date of birth, and your name).

In order for the National Board of Health and Welfare to process your application, you must submit a certificate of good standing or a certificate of current professional status.

The certificate must:

• confirm that you have not been restricted in your occupation due to professional negligence or criminal action
• be issued within three months from the date of your application
• be issued by the competent auhtority in the country where you obtained your qualifications. Please note that your university is not a competent authority.

For information about competent authorities, see the Regulated Professions Database.

If you are unable to submit a certificate of good standing

If there is no professional register in your country of training that issues certificates of good standing you must submit an extract from the country’s criminal record.

To be able to get a Swedish licence, you need to have language skills in Swedish, Danish or Norwegian. This applies even if you are a citizen of Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Norway. Send a certified copy of your diploma or other certificate showing your language skills with your licence application.

To certify your language skills, you must have a passing grade or certificate in one of the following:

• Swedish at Level C1 in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (GERS)
• Swedish, level 3 or Swedish as a foreign language, level 3 for example from Komvux (upper secondary adult education)
• Swedish, Norwegian or Danish from high school (gymnasiet) or another course or a test that makes you eligible for studying at a Swedish university/college, go to antagning.se.

You can also prove your language skills by letting a health care provider assess if you have the language skills that are needed in order to work in your profession, which means that language skills should be at the equivalent level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (GERS). The health care provider should fill in the form and describe how the assessment has been made.

Blankett för bedömning av språkkunskaper (pdf)

The assessment of your language skills is to be made by an operational manager.
The assessment must include the following:

• a detailed description of your language skills in terms of listening and reading comprehension, speaking and writing skills
• a detailed description of how the assessment was made
• a description of the tasks you have performed and during what period.

If you do not know any of the languages, we recommend that you start learning Swedish as soon as you have decided that you want to work in Sweden.

When a certificate of professional experience is mandatory

If the country in which you obtained your qualifications does not regulate your profession and it also does not regulate training for your profession, you must submit proof that you have practised the profession in question for at least 1 year during the last 10 years.

The certificate must:

• state what position you held
• be dated and signed by your employer
• contain the exact dates of your employment, average number of hours undertaken per month and description of duties.

Please note that an employment contract is not sufficient!

When a certificate of professional experience is optional

In some cases the National Board of Health and Welfare will asses both your training and professional experience. If you have any professional experience it could be beneficial for your application. You have the option to submit proof of professional experience with your application.