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Daniel Olsson1, Ingmarie Skoglund2, Carl Johan Östgren3
1statistiker, enheten för medicinsk statistik, LIME (institutionen för lärande, informatik, management och etik), Karolinska institutet, Stockholm.
Abstract:
We present the results of the medical knowledge test after fulfilled internship for Swedish medical authorization during three periods; the years 1995 to 2008, 2009 to the spring of 2015 and from august of 2015 to 2019. During the last period a total of 6089 tests were further analysed. Interns graduated from Swedish universities failed between 0 percent to 5.5 percent of the test subsections. Interns who graduated from countries within the European Union (EU) failed in 22.1 percent and interns graduated from a non-EU country failed in 42.9 percent. A logistic regression showed that the risk of failing the first attempt increases with higher age, education outside of EU or in Poland. Most of the participants passed the test after three or four attempts. Proper measures have to be implemented for doctors graduated from a non-Swedish university to improve the outcome and introduction to the Swedish health care system to secure patient safety.
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