[Teaching emergency medicine].

In France, emergencies are taught: to all medical students in the course of their studies; a specific emergency course being rarely given as such; to physicians who want to practice in emergency system: transport, emergency rooms, in association with intensive care medicine. The head of the emergency service should have a full time position, and whatever his original specialty, should receive a specific education in critical care medicine. Nurses who attend different congresses to complete their formation are not yet rewarded with a specific status. In addition, first aid measures should be thought to the general public, so it can help injured persons.