Step 2: Complete a specialty training residency (ST)

A dentist may be given credit for up to two years’ clinical training as a doctor in an EEA country other than Sweden or in a third country if he or she:

• has completed clinical training equivalent to two years of a generalndental internship
• has completed the clinical training taking place under supervision
• has received a certificate of clinical training containing a description of its contents and scope from an administrative director or equivalent in the country where the clinical training was performed
• fulfils the expertise requirements in the intermediate learning objectives of the description of learning objectives for the specialty according to an internship supervisor in Sweden
• has completed the clinical training after being authorised to practise the dental profession in the country where the clinical training was performed.

Clinical training completed abroad encompasses all internship duties that takes place under supervision carried out in a country outside of Sweden after the date on which authorisation to engage in the dentistry profession has been obtained in the country where the clinical training was performed.

A dentist who has a certificate of specialist expertise internship from a third country in a speciality after completing clinical training equivalent to two years of a general dental internship and three years of dental specialty training must obtain a certificate of specialist expertise in the corresponding speciality in Sweden if he or she:

• completes a minimum of one year of dental specialty training in Sweden after receiving a Swedish licence to practise
• fulfils the expertise requirements in the description of learning objectives for the specialty

AND

• otherwise fulfils the requirements of this Regulation.

If you have a Swedish doctorate degree, you can obtain a certificate of specialist expertise if you

• have fulfilled the expertise requirements in the description of learning objectives for the specialty

AND

• have completed a minimum of two and a half years of dental specialty training.

This also applies to a doctorate degree received from an educational institution outside of Sweden which a Swedish university or other institution of higher education, or the Swedish Council for Higher Education, has assessed as corresponding to a Swedish doctorate degree.

The healthcare provider is to be responsible for ensuring that in such activities that receive dentists for dental specialty training, the preconditions necessary to carry out dental specialty training of high and consistent quality are available.

The healthcare provider is responsible for ensuring that there is access to

• internship supervisors who can provide the requisite supervision that is needed
• employees who can provide the dental specialist intern with the necessary instructions on activity-specific techniques and procedures.

The healthcare provider should ensure that there is access to a Director of Studies who has specialist skills and has dental intern supervisor training. He or she should coordinate training activities for the dental specialty training. The Director of Studies can also constitute an organisational support function to the administrative director, internship supervisors and dental specialist intern and should be included in the consultations on the individual syllabus.

The Administrative Director at the place where the dental specialist intern carries out his/her primary clinical training for the specialty training shall

• appoint a principal internship supervisor for the dental specialist intern
• appoint an external examiner
• be responsible for ensuring that an individual training plan is developed, regularly followed up, and revised if necessary in consultation with the principal internship supervisor and the dental specialist intern
• if the principal internship supervisor is not sufficiently scientifically qualified, the administrative director is to appoint an additional individual is designed for the dental specialist intern to participate in the consultation.

The principal internship supervisor must be working where the dental specialist intern carries out his/her primary specialty training.

The principal internship supervisor must:

• have a Certificate of specialist expertise in the specialty that the dental specialist intern intends to achieve specialist expertise in
• have completed dental intern supervisor training.

The supervision must be provided on the basis of the individual training plan, continuously, and in the form of support and guidance. The supervision should be planned into the regular clinical work for both the dental specialist intern and the internship supervisor.

For each training period, the dental specialist intern must have access to an internship supervisor who must have relevant specialist expertise and must have completed dental intern supervisor training. This can be the principal internship supervisor or a relevant internship supervisor.

The external examiner must have a certificate of specialist expertise in the specialty in which the dental specialist intern intends to achieve specialist expertise and should have a doctorate degree or the equivalent. The examiner may not have organisational links with the healthcare provider.

The processing time varies depending on the specialty and takes 2–4 weeks if you have submitted a complete application. The processing time may increase with a large influx of applications and on major weekends.

Yes. But if you do your specialty training part-time, the length of the clinical training is to be extended so that the total time corresponds to full-time work for a minimum of three years.

As of 1 July 2021, the National Board of Health and Welfare will stop signing the Certificate of Specialist Expertise for doctors and dentists. We will also not sign the new certificates of approved basic service (BT).

On 1 July 2021, the new regulations on doctors' basic service (BT) will apply. The National Board of Health and Welfare will issue a certificate of approved basic service. However, the certificates will not be signed. From 1 July 2021, the Certificate of Specialist Expertise for doctors and dentists will not be signed either.

A step towards increased digital management

The change means that all decisions and certificates can be processed digitally, instead of in paper format, and thus entails a streamlining of our handling as well as a step towards increased digital handling. With the change, we also want to achieve an equal handling of all certificates from the National Board of Health and Welfare, since we don´t sign professional licences either since 2017.

Authorization is checked in the HOSP register

The primary source for checking a license is the Register of Licensed Health Care Professionals in Sweden (HOSP). It is the HOSP register that indicates the current status of an authorization. An issued Certificate of Specialist Expertise only indicates the status of an authorization on the date on which the certificate was issued.