The Medical Students’ Section (Läkarsektionen, LS) is the section for students at the Medical Programme and Complementary Programme for Physicians with a Medical Degree from outside the EU/EES and Switzerland at Karolinska Institutet. As a member of Medicinska Föreningen and registered at one of the programmes you are a member of LS.
Chairman:
Robert Sandberg
Contact: Robert Sandberg
The main focus of LS is to work with student influence. We do this by representing all medical students in matters related to education and electing student representatives to different commissions, committees and work groups at KI that discuss and make decisions concerning the Medical Programme. All section members can be elected by the section board to be student representatives in any of these groups. By evaluating and reforming courses, participating in solving problems, voicing opinions and giving proposals for improvement and participating in long-term development processes, the sections’ student representatives have a great influence on the shape of the programme.
As a student you have a unique firsthand experience of the education at KI, and as an international student you may have a different perspective than most other students. If you have any ideas on how the medical programme at KI could be improved or on how the process of welcoming international students should be improved, please contact us. Your input is important to us, and we can help you promote your ideas.
During the course of the semesters the medical students are summoned to section meetings. There we discuss current issues related to the programme and check in with the student representatives to see how the work is progressing in the different commissions and committees.
Two to three times each semester, there are national meetings, called OMSiS-meetings, where representatives from different parts of the country meet to discuss educational matters related to the medical study programmes. This is an excellent opportunity to get to know students from other universities and learn how the medical education differs from place to place. The Medical Students’ Section coordinates these meetings in Stockholm and participate in all the remaining OMSiS-meetings around the country as well.
LS also arranges social activities for the section members. Among other things, Läkarintrot arranges reception activities at the beginning of each semester for all new medical students, LÄSK arranges parties and pubs and Med-SM competes against Sweden’s other medical students in Medicinar-SM.
Läkarintrot arranges the reception of all new medical students at KI. Do you also want to be a fadder? Keep an eye on the Fb page for when it’s time to apply!
The social committee of LS (LÄSK) makes sure to keep student life going at KI and arranges lots of fun events for medical students, such as parties and pub crawls.
Medicinar-SM is a competition that is arranged once a year, where all 7 of Sweden’s medical programmes competes in swimming, volleyball, football, floorball, tug of war and running.
Medicinska Föreningen i Stockholm (MF) is the largest student union at Karolinska Institutet (KI) and together we work daily to make your time here as great as possible. MF monitors the education at KI and makes sure that they keep a high standard and that all students are well taken care of.
