[Professional military training of women a social-hygienic study].

The author discusses the process of training of women at a military higher institution. The main group consisted of 110 women, future military doctors. The control group were 87 men studying at a parallel course. In general women study better, the motivation of study and the time course of formation of sociopsychological relations are different in men and women, the two groups differ by the level and time course of the physiological potential of the organism, disease incidence is higher in women and the morbidity structure among them is peculiar, and shifts in the immune status are more expressed in women; moreover, the "price" of adaptation of women to novel conditions of professional training is higher. Improvement of military professional training of women is based on the primary prediction of its expected efficacy, using a specially developed method.