[The preventive medical aspects in ensuring efficiency and safety in the operation of a fire-fighting and accident-rescue service].

On the basis of national and foreign experience on liquidation of the consequences of natural calamities and catastrophies the article shows the necessity to introduce a course of medical training into the program of studies for the specialists of fire-fighting and rescue services of the Ministry for Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MIARF). This training will ensure these specialists with adequate skills of primary medical and predoctor care in disaster situations. The article contains basic items of the Program of medical training for the students of the St. Petersburg Higher Fire-Fighting Technical School of MIARF which was included into curriculum planning in 1992.