[The place and importance of preventive medicine in the program of medical education].

In 1993 an inquiry study among 224 students of the sixth year of the medical study was performed in Krakow. The control of the knowledge of selected preventive medicine problems presented an unsatisfactory level in the group of interviewed students. The answers given by the respondents proved that the subject of preventive medicine was still underestimated. In the field of prevention only the problem of proper feeding was recognized by the interrogated students as useful for the future doctors work and should be more extensively taught in the curriculum of medical schools. The important question of the prevention of hospital infections was distinctly neglected by the respondents.