Denmark

Organisation Responsible for the Professional Recognition Process:
Entity name: 
Terveydenhuollon oikeusturvakeskus (TEO)
Web url: 
http://www.teo.fi
Documents needed/Requirements for Recognition
Documents Needed: 
Medical certification
The employer can require the ability to speak Finnish and/or Swedish
Language skills (for non-EU)
Clinical Skills exam (for non-EU)
Deadlines and Duration
Deadlines: 

The professional recognition for the doctors from outside the EU/EEA takes usually several months at least

Additional Information
Recertification required: 
No
Organisation Responsable for Postgraduate Medical Training
Entity: 
Medical faculties of five Universities
Address: 

Helsinki, Kuopio, Oulu, Tampere, Turku

www.helsinki.fi, www.uku.fi, www.oulu.fi, www.uta.fi, www.utu.fi

Training Program Advertisement:
Advertisement: 

In the professional journals

Deadlines
Application Deadlines: 

There are not any uniform deadlines

Selection Process
Selection Process Description: 

Personal choice

Working Conditions
Salary: 
Yes
Type of Contracts: 

3200 euros for the daytime work per month, overtime is sometimes paid and sometimes compensated as free time and sometimes not compensated at all

The on-calls are compensated separately. The total salary may be around 6000-7000 euros, if you do 4-5 so called “heavy” on-call shifts per month

Contracts vary from short-term to contracts lasting through all the training. The normal working hours is 38.25hrs/week. A normal on-call shift is 24h during the week-ends and 17 hours (from 15.00 – 8.00) during the weekdays. The amount of on-call shifts varies greatly between hospitals and specialties

Payed vacation: 
Yes
Maternity leave: 
Yes
Other Information
Training Center Acreditation Info: 
Officially there is not, but there are a few projects introducing the visitations
Acceptance of foreign trainees for short term: 
Yes
Mandatory Insurance : 
Yes
Organisations witch can provide legal help: 

The Finnish Medical Association