Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care

Region Stockholm is now announcing three Forskar-ST positions in Family Medicine, starting in the autumn term of 2025 – an initiative aimed at strengthening the academic environment in primary care.

As a primary supervisor, you can apply for funding for a research project that will be linked to a future PhD student within the framework of specialist training (ST).

Submit your application no later than 1 October 2025 – applications for Step 1 must be submitted by the academic supervisor via Prisma (in Swedish).

For further information, please contact: Caroline Wachtler: caroline.wachtler@ki.se

Are you a doctoral student or planning to become one? Join a structured research education program alongside others who, like you, are conducting research relevant to primary care.
The Research School is one of Karolinska Institutet’s clinical research schools. It is aimed at doctoral students who are clinically active in primary care or whose research projects are relevant to the field. The research school offers most of the courses required for doctoral education, including statistics, epidemiology, qualitative methods, development and evaluation of interventions, quality assurance of clinical research (GCP), and scientific writing. The doctoral students’ projects ensure that the courses are grounded in primary care and clinically relevant.
In collaboration with Region Stockholm, the research school provides salary compensation to the clinics of 16 doctoral students during course weeks (4 weeks per semester).
The call for applications for the Research School starting in autumn 2026 will open in Prisma around the turn of the year 2025–2026 and close in March 2026. Admission decisions will be announced in May.
 

The Postdoc Programme is aimed at newly graduated PhD researchers who are clinically active. It includes lectures and exercises on writing and reviewing research applications, as well as opportunities to network with other clinical researchers and receive career support through mentoring groups.

The Associate Professor Programme is intended for more senior clinical researchers who are preparing to apply for associate professorship. It focuses on the relevant regulations and on getting started with the application process itself.

Applications are open until 2 October.