Doctors who were trained in Denmark will receive a final answer as to whether they will receive authorization. Experienced doctors can be offered to become GPs.
Doctors educated in Denmark have had an uncertain job future. Now possible solutions are coming, but not for everyone.
Just like before the New Year, Aftenposten reported on newly qualified doctors with education from Denmark. Despite a lack of doctors, several have been waiting for months for an answer on whether they can get authorization in Norway.
The long case processing time comes as a result of Norway changing its rules for rotation and specialization.
After Aftenposten wrote about the case, the health authorities have finally obtained professional advice on Danish education from various universities in Norway and Denmark. This means that the newly trained doctor will get answers quickly.
– The Norwegian Directorate of Health has stated that they will have processed all applications within a few days. This is very good news for those who apply, but also the Norwegian health service, writes Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol to Aftenposten.
Kjerkol says the government will increase recruitment to the medical profession.
– We want to make it easier for younger players to establish themselves as quickly.
– In overtime
Maja Elisabeth Mikkelsen, leader of the Norwegian Medical Students’ Association, says it is good that the new graduates get answers, but that it comes in overtime. The opportunity to apply for authorization was announced in June last year.
– There are people who were offered a LIS 1 position but who had to say no because they did not receive an answer in time. But it is good that the ministry signals that it will be possible to go faster and that it will be possible to get this type of authorization with education from Denmark.
However, it is not only newly qualified doctors who were affected by Norway’s new regime for specialization.
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Aftenposten reported earlier in February on Danish Benjamin Asschenfeldt. Despite a doctorate and several years of clinical experience, the authorities are required to start at the bottom of the Norwegian specialization.
After a change of rotation and specialization for Norwegian games a few years ago, I no longer got the games trained in Denmark approved this year with practice after studies. NRK has highlighted how several GPs choose to go home.
I correspond to the Storting, Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol (Labor Party) outlines possible solutions for any of the games.
She still means does not it is a good idea to approve practices that doctors educated in Denmark or other EEA countries already have.
The Ministry will does not change the rules for doctors’ specialization in Norway.
But the Ministry of Health and Care Services will assess whether the doctors who “do not want to complete LIS1, but who are qualified to work independently as human beings, should be able to continue working as GPs”, writes the Minister in his reply to the Storting.
In Egersund, there will be a regular play crisis in a couple of weeks, when a Danish play couple leaves the municipality. The newspaper Dalane Tidende wrote about the couple last week. For players in the same situation as them, it will be an option.
– Goes directly against professional recommendations
The Danish doctor Benjamin Asschenfeldt says to Aftenposten at the answer from Kjerkol is to be stated above. He is not a general practitioner and sees no solution for doctors in the same situation as him.
Asschenfeldt’s problem could have been solved on purpose, but it seems that one is instead looking for opportunities to avoid doing something.
– The Minister of Health and Care Services only argues with bureaucratic arguments, and goes directly against professional recommendations from the Norwegian Medical Association. It is not about letting go of specialization, rather the opposite. These are games that have already begun to specialize in Denmark. It is about not having to take big steps back professionally, surgically and financially, says the doctor.
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The leader of the Young Doctors’ Association, Kristine Utne, had hoped for a solution in which the competence for each individual play was not assessed either.
– Subject to the fact that we do not know all the details, we are asked whether this will solve problems and whether it will provide a lasting scheme that takes care of the doctors who have studied in Denmark, says Utne to Aftenposten.
