A System Dynamic Model for Evaluating Sweden’s new Policy for Medical School

Abstract: For many years, Sweden has proudly been able to boast over having one of the best healthcaresystems in the world. However, this superiority is at risk of falling apart primarily due to the agingSwedish population and the ineffective education of specialist doctors. Subject to these problems,the government decided to change the structure of the medical school. Two of the adjustment'sgoals were to reduce the long internship waiting lists and increase the number of specialist doctors.In this paper, we will study if the new medical school system really will have a better capacity to fulfillthese goals. To do it, different future scenarios will be simulated with the help of a system dynamicsmodel. From the simulation results, it can be concluded that the new medical school system has abetter capacity to develop more specialist doctors and decrease the length of the lines forinternships. The results can also determine the importance of setting an appropriate goal of thenumber of specialist doctors per person to sustain a good working environment for the specialistsand, at the same time, give the population proper treatment.