This period of employment aims to assess your clinical and communication skills. Your salary and work conditions will adhere to general employment terms.
No Specialist Qualifications
If you do not possess specialist qualifications or if your specialist qualifications in a particular specialty are not approved by us for the duration of the adaptation and training employment, you will need to complete a 12-month employment (comprising two 6-month periods in different specialties – or longer if we have assessed that you have not had enough clinical teaching hours and you must compensate for the missing hours during the employment.
Mandatory courses are included in the employment of adaptation and training purposes
Throughout the employment, the department will evaluate the adequacy of your clinical and communication skills. As part of this evaluation, the department is obligated to send reports to us.
Specialist Qualifications
If you hold specialist qualifications in a specialty recognized in Denmark, with a minimum duration as defined in Council Directive 2005/36/EC, you may complete a 6-month or longer if we have assessed that you have not had enough clinical teaching hours and you must compensate for the missing hours during the employment- employment period in a department that trains specialists within your field. For instance, if you specialize in general medicine, you should seek employment with a general practitioner approved for post-graduate specialty education (hoveduddannelse).
The Council Directive 2005/36/EC
Throughout the employment, the department will evaluate the adequacy of your basic clinical and communication skills. As part of this evaluation, the department is obligated to send a report to us.
Finding Job Opportunities
It is your responsibility to search for and apply to any available positions on your own.
You can search for vacancies in the healthcare system in Denmark at www.jobnet.dk. You can find several other job search portals on the web. You can also visit the individual employers' websites to see the jobs posted there (e.g. regions, municipalities and private healthcare providers. It is your own responsibility to find an employer who will employ you in an employment for adaptation and training purposes that meets the applicable requirements.
Please note that not everyone succeeds in finding an employment for adaptation and training purposes. It depends, among other things, of the capacity and request for staff by the Regional Council, etc.
Approval for the employments must be obtained from one of the three Regional Councils for Postgraduate Medical Training
The Three Regional Counsils
Temporary Authorization (evalueringsautorisation)
Once you have been offered a position, you must apply for and obtain a authorization from us, which will be awarded for your 6-month or 12-month employment period - or longer if we have assessed that you have not had enough clinical teaching hours and you must thus compensate for the missing hours during the employment.
Evalueringsautorisation
Positive Assessments
Upon completion of the employment for adaptation and training purposes, and upon receiving positive assessments (evalueringsskemaer) from the department/general practice, we will grant you Danish authorization and permission to work independently, allowing you to work independently as a medical doctor.
Negative Assessments
If we receive a negative assessment from your employer during the employment period, you have the opportunity to apply for a new employment for adaptation and training purposes, you have the opportunity to apply for a new employment of adaptation and training purposes. However, please bear in mind that you within five years must have completed the first employment of adaptation and training purposes and either have started or received a concrete commitment to start the last required employment.