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Articles by Morten Sandbu
Transcultural challenges in psychiatry
- Morten Sandbu
09.01.2025:
Transcultural consultations in psychiatry were perceived as more challenging for Norwegian-born doctors than for their foreign-born colleagues. Culturally diverse healthcare settings are now the norm rather than the exception. Psychiatry has long been the medical speciality in Norway with the...
When the Spanish flu came to Andøya island
- Morten Sandbu
27.03.2020:
In July 1918, the Spanish flu came to Andøya island. The municipal medical officer, Christian Fredrik Rossow, wrote an account of his experience of the epidemic. His descriptions have clear similarities with the current COVID-19 epidemic. The World Health Organization is now describing the COVID-19...
Foreign doctors in Norwegian psychiatry – is there a need for a mentoring scheme?
- Morten Sandbu,
- Anne Kamps,
- Valjbona Preljevic,
- Cecilie Jávo
30.06.2015:
During the last 10 – 15 years there has been a marked increase in the number of foreign doctors in Norway, to date (2014) approximately 3 900, equivalent to one-sixth of all doctors of working age. A similar trend has been observed in the USA, Canada, Australia and most Western European countries (1...