training

Year family medicine established: unknown

Type of Training: unknown

Length of Training: Medical school is 5 and a half years (Medical Programme Education Karolinska Institutet, n.d.). Following this there is general service, called AT, for at least one and a half years to be registered as a doctor. Then, there is a specialization service called ST for 5 years adding up to a total of 12 years to specialize in general medicine (Lindhagen, 2014)

Number of institutions that offer family medicine: There are 4 universities that teach family medicine, Sahlgrenska Acedemy, Gothenburg Linköping University, Örebro University and Umeå University (Brekke et al., 2013)

Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: unknown

practice

Number of family doctors in country (2016): 6,297 family physicians (Eurostat, 2016)

Physician to population ratio (2006): 60.4 family physicians per 100,000 people (Masseria et al., 2009).

DALY: 19,525/100,000 individuals (due to all causes).

Life Expectancy:

• Females 2017: 84.1 years

• Males 2017: 80.6 years

Mortality rate 2017:

• 2016 Males: 64 per 1,000 male adults.

• 2016 Females: 40 per 1,000 female adults.

Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: 92%

College of Family Physicians (Y or N):

• Yes: The Swedish Association of General Practice (SFAM).

training

Training in Sweden requires attending medical school, which is 5 and a half years (University of Bergen, n.d.) Following this there is general service, called AT, for at least one and a half years to be registered as a doctor. Then, there is a specialization service called ST for 5 years adding up to a total of 12 years to specialize in general medicine (Lindhagen, 2014)

There are 4 universities that teach family medicine, Sahlgrenska Acedemy, Gothenburg Linköping University, Örebro University and Umeå University (Brekke et al., 2013)  The amount of resident graduating each year in family medicine is unknown.

practice

In Sweden GPs provide treatment, advice and disease prevention (Lindhagen, 2014) Other primary care deliverers include nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and gynecologists (Kringos et al., n.d.)

There is no gatekeeping system, as patients usually go directly to specialist because of the historical access pattern and shortage of GPs. In Sweden, a GP's work will entail more knowledge and understanding as they more deeply partake in diagnostic and treatment methods and plans for their pateints. A vast amount of basic chronic conditions that pateints face are only monitored and worked on by their specified GP. They are also involved in basic matnernal and child healthcare by providing preventative care.