Prof. Antti Mäkitie and Doc. Heikki Irjala

(and Prof. Heikki Löppönen)

UEMS ORL SectionAmsterdam 2015

ORL-HNS Training and Physicians in Finland

Physicians in the Nordic Countries

Working group within the Medical Associations in the Nordic Countries

Physicians in the Nordic Countries

Working group within the Medical Associations in the Nordic Countries

Physicians in the Nordic Countries

Physicians in the Nordic Countries

Working group within the Medical Associations in the Nordic Countries

Physicians in the Nordic Countries

Working group within the Medical Associations in the Nordic Countries

Physicians in the Nordic Countries

Working group within the Medical Associations in the Nordic Countries

Active ENT Specialists 2014(Active and/or under age of retirement, and living/working in the country)

Denmark 342 (2012)

Finland 337 Iceland 22 Norway 323 Sweden 614 (Only members of the Swedish Medical Association)

Number of ENT specialists in Finland

325 (year 2014) (Estimated 2030: 325) Male 201 – Female 124 65% work in hospitals, 25% private, 10%

university and administration 2.7% of all positions at hospitals unfilled (2013) 83% had private sector occupation

25% - main occupation 58% - secondary occupation

Immigration (2015) 17 specialists have moved abroad 2-5 specialists have foreign background

Directive 2005/36/EC Applicability

Doctors who have completed their medical qualification in an EU/EEA member state and who are EU/EEA citizens are licensed in accordance with the European directive 2005/36/EC.

All doctors working in Finland must be able to speak either Finnish or Swedish. Finland is officially a bilingual country and some 5% of the population speaks Swedish as their first language.

General aspects of specialist training in Finland

Administered until 1960 by the Finnish Medical Association

National Board of Health (under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health) administered 1960 – 1985

Since 1986 as postgraduate training by the medical faculties (Univ.)

Governed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 2015-

National coordination rather minimal

Facts about ENT training

Duration: 5 years (30 months at Univ. Hosp.) Theoretical education: 60 hours, hours of which

training in administration and leadership Educational courses: 7 x 2 days available “Exit Exam”: yes, a written anonymous national

examination usually during the last year of training

Textbooks / Journals

Cummings G.W. (Ed.): Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Vol 1-4 (Elsevier Mosby)

Gleeson M (Ed.): Scott-Brown's Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery vol. 1-3 (Hodder Arnold)

2. Jauhiainen T. ym.: Audiologia (Duodecim)

Clinical Otolaryngology JAMA Otolaryngology -

Head & Neck Surgery Laryngoscope Eur Arch ORL Head & Neck Acta Otolaryngologica Duodecim Journal of the Finnish

Medical Association