Fw: SV: Fw: International O&P License Requirement Poll
Tony Barr
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Fw: SV: Fw: International O&P License Requirement Poll
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Tony Barr
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Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 15:57:46
From: Kjell-Åke Nilsson
To: Tony Barr
Subject: SV: Fw: International O&P License Requirement Poll
Hi Tony!
A recent legislation here in Sweden sets the title Prosthetist/Orthotist (or Orthopaedic Engineers, as we are called here) under legal protection. You cannot claim that you are one of this profession except when you have the 3-year university degree provided by only one institution in Sweden. Special rules apply for people with an older education.
One small hang-up is that you still can claim to have that title, but only if you are engaged in a practice dissociated from any medical system, since this rule is covered only by law concerned with health-care legislation... strange but true.
Kjell-Ake Nilsson, CPO at Linkoping University Hospital, Sweden.
Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 15:57:46
From: Kjell-Åke Nilsson
To: Tony Barr
Subject: SV: Fw: International O&P License Requirement Poll
Hi Tony!
A recent legislation here in Sweden sets the title Prosthetist/Orthotist (or Orthopaedic Engineers, as we are called here) under legal protection. You cannot claim that you are one of this profession except when you have the 3-year university degree provided by only one institution in Sweden. Special rules apply for people with an older education.
One small hang-up is that you still can claim to have that title, but only if you are engaged in a practice dissociated from any medical system, since this rule is covered only by law concerned with health-care legislation... strange but true.
Kjell-Ake Nilsson, CPO at Linkoping University Hospital, Sweden.
Citation
Tony Barr, “Fw: SV: Fw: International O&P License Requirement Poll,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 17, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/212062.
