[Primary emergency care in undergraduate education]

The paper deals with the contemporary state of undergraduate training in emergency care and in primary emergency care at medical faculties in the CSSR. The discipline of emergency care is a new interdisciplinary entity which is becoming part of basic medical education. In undergraduate training it forms a problem oriented interdisciplinary complex with the central role of the teacher--specialist in anaesthesiology and resuscitation. The author discusses the concept of teaching at the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University, Prague which foresees two stages of training in emergency care, the basic stage in the 3rd 5th year and the stage of practical training in the 6th year devoted mainly to problems of primary emergency care. She submits the proposal of a graduate course for extending basic skills of primary emergency care during the early postgraduate period and wants to take advantage of the increasing interest of students in the training of emergency care within the framework of methodical innovations.