Health in Sweden - Healthcare in Sweden, Schools of Medicine in Sweden, Karolinska Institutet, Sahlgrenska Academy, Scaar, Abortion in Sweden (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Healthcare in Sweden, Schools of Medicine in Sweden, Karolinska Institutet, Sahlgrenska Academy, Scaar, Abortion in Sweden, Medical Products Agency, National Board of Health and Welfare, Norrland's University Hospital, Stockholm Centre of Public Health, Aiai. Excerpt: Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is one of Europe's largest medical universities. It was founded in 1810 on Kungsholmen island on the west side of Stockholm. Its main campus was moved decades later and located in Solna, just outside Stockholm, and a second campus more recently in Flemingsberg/Huddinge south of Stockholm. A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska University Hospital, located in Solna and Huddinge, is associated with the university as a research and teaching hospital. Together they form an academic health science centre. It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30 percent of the medical training and 40 percent of the medical academic research conducted nationwide. While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, the bulk of the Ph.D. projects are conducted in English. The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities. According to the 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the institute is the highest ranked university in clinical medicine and pharmacy in Europe, 8th in the world, and Sweden's highest ranked university in all categories. Karolinska Institutet was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811 as a training center for army surgeons. The original name was at first 'Medico-Chirurgiska In... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=216908