Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care

Three new opportunities are now available for ST doctors who wish to combine clinical work with research! This year’s call offers three project options: cardiac assessment in patients with chest pain, early cancer detection using blood tests, or AI-based diagnostics for skin cancer. This is a unique chance to join the forefront of primary care research – and to contribute to new knowledge yourself. Apply no later than 14 January 2026.

Region Stockholm is investing, as part of the Primary Care Strategy, in strengthening the academic environment within primary care. As part of this initiative, three research-oriented specialist training positions (Forskar-ST) in general practice are now being announced. The aim is to increase the number of PhD-qualified specialist physicians, strengthen the academic environment in primary care, and offer ST doctors the opportunity to develop a research career in parallel with their clinical training..

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

The call for application to the research school 2026-2028 starts 15 December 2025, 15:00 h, and last day for application is 6 March 2026, 14:00 h.

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.