Teaching targets in vascular medicine.

The reference list presented here is a selection of educative objectives pe rformed by the French "College des Enseignants de Medecine Vasculaire" for the different levels of the medical initial education course. It was produc ed through a collective procedure, after selecting the most relevant topics and setting up writing rules based upon docimology, and favoring practical rather than theoretical objectives. The main topics are peripheral obstructive arterial disease, polyatheroscle rosis, atherosclerosis risk factors, venous thromboembolic disease, thrombo philia, chronic venous insufficiency, lymphatic insufficiency, leg ulcers, vascular acrosyndromes, cerebrovascular diseases and connective tissue dise ases, vascular occupational diseases, vascular adverse effects of drugs, di abetic vascular disease, the vascular consequences of hypertension, vascula r malformations and angiodysplasia, inflammatory arterial diseases, and vas cular explorations. As a whole they include about 300 objectives for the fi ve teaching levels. We hope that this list will help stimulate production of training courses a nd documents strongly needed in this field.