[The medical school and its training center at the District Institute of National Health in Nové Zámky from the viewpoint of medical students engaged in professional and social medicine summer practice].

Within the framework of professional and social practice of medical students in the district institute of national health in Nové Zámky a questionnaire survey was made concerned with the attitudes and views of students as regards training at the medical faculties and as regards summer practice. The authors consider the information obtained from 37 students of different medical faculties in the SSR and CSR, ensuing from their first empirical experience in the field, a valuable feedback as regards the standard of training and shaping of the profile of the qualified doctor for practice. On the whole the students are satisfied with the conditions of practical work in Nové Zámky but have also some concrete concructive comments and suggestions for optimation and intensification of undergraduate training and therapeutic and preventive care. The participation of medical students in the above activities is a significant factor shaping their professional identity.