Research project Highly skilled professionals and international mobility

What experiences and learnings do highly educated people have from practicing their profession in different national contexts? It is not unproblematic to transfer theoretical knowledge and practical skills between different countries' healthcare systems. It takes even more time and effort to learn and understand partly unfamiliar workplace cultures. How do they transform their professional knowledge and skills into practice in a partly unknown social, cultural and medical context?

Within the framework of several linked projects, healthcare professionals are examined and their experiences of being internationally mobile. One project has focused on doctors who were born and trained in Poland and who have moved to Sweden to work in healthcare. What happens when these people establish themselves as professionals in healthcare in a new national context, a context that is both familiar and unfamiliar? Most tasks are similar, while regulations, working methods and workplace cultures may be different.

Another project involved doctors and researchers in medicine who are active in Sweden and for shorter or longer periods worked in other countries. What did they learn from having been active abroad and what opportunities have they had to apply new insights, skills and knowledge upon their return to Sweden? The latest project is about nurses who migrate to Sweden to work in healthcare.