Overview
Three-year full-time specialist training (specialiseringstjänstgöring) in orthodontics at Karolinska Institutet combining clinical service, side rotations, seminars and a scientific project under a named main supervisor.
The programme
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Duration
- 3 years full-time (individual training plan; 20% theory, 80% bookable patient time)
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Follows the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare regulations for dentists' specialist training (HSLF-FS 2017:77), leading to specialist certification
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Swedish dental licence plus at least two years of general dental practice after licensure; merits assessed with the NSATS merit system (2023); interview presenting six treated cases
- International applicants
- Teaching in Swedish and English; Swedish dental licence required
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Swedish licence to practise as a dentist (legitimation)
How to apply
- Deadline
- Training places are advertised in the professional press and on ki.se/jobb and filled by open competition
- Application method
- Apply to advertised ST posts (ki.se/jobb or professional press); an ST post may also be funded by another employer
Funding
- Funding
- Free of charge for the trainee; ST dentists receive a salary under agreement for the three years
Official sources
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