Doctors with new borders
Moving from South America, learning Swedish and getting your medical degree approved in Sweden represent a major challenge. Mariana Reza Felix and Marcelo Petri recently started a new training programme for doctors with a foreign license to practise medicine, and must adapt their internationally-acquired skills to the Swedish healthcare system. But they will also need to learn to interpret unwritten social codes and understand the thick Skåne accent at the motor vehicle inspection.