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Peculiarities of training of military medical staff during the Great Patriotic War. Extreme conditions of the World War II required as soon as possible rebuilding the work of institutions for higher medical education concerning training of military medical personnel. During the war significantly changed the organization of educational process in the S.M.Kirov Military Medical Academy, the military-medical faculties and civilian medical institutions. During the war from military medical academies and military medical faculties annually graduated up to 1450 military and naval doctors, civil universities of the country prepared and sent to the front more than 65 thousand doctors. It called up from reserve 80 thousand doctors. Basically staffing problems have been resolved.

Lately more and more attention is given to the indices of efficiency and safety of operators' activities because of their special complexity and mistake value. Operators' work is connected with intensive processing of encoded information and is accompanied with development of significant fatigue, stereotype cyclic alternation, changes in work and rest regimen--with necessity of working at night. Effect of circadian biorhythms considerably influences on characteristics of operators' activities. The existing organizational approach considers the operator only as being present or absent at working place. The fact that operator can be present but his working capacity is not sufficient is taken into account not enough and that's why requires consideration of operators' work and elaboration of organizational measures.

A study of psychological training methods tested on 318 servicemen--armed conflicts participants, including 22 military doctors, veterans of Afghanistan. The results of the research prove that various departures in psychological traits are highly relevant to extreme situations and that a psychological training programme for the medical service personnel is a necessity. The development of the programme should be based on the troops medical maintenance experience in the armed conflicts.