Reorganisation of medical system and introduction of obligatory continuos medical education resulted in exceeded numbers of different courses of medical education. Croatian medical Association /branch Rijeka since eighties started with additional medical training by courses of continuous medical education (CME) once or twice a months. In aim to improve quality of training and find out which are the most attractive themes during the may 2001. questionnaire was performed The questionnaire consisted of 34 fields of medicine (basic and clinical). Physicians were asked to decide, regarding their personal needs and necessity from which of these fields they want courses “regularly”, “occasionally” or “rare”. All together 1200 questionnaires were sent, 270 were received and 229 were analysed. These represent 19% of Croatian Medical Association / branch Rijeka total members. Physicians would like “regularly” courses from the fields of emergency/intensive medicine (66.4%), and then laboratory diagnostic, cardiology, family medicine, rheumathology, gastroenterology, infektology, clinical pharmacology, paediatric, and psychiatric (in the range from 35% do 25%). At the group of “occasionally” courses the first five places took dermatology, ear/nose/throat, endocrinology, nephrology and alergology. Physicians would like “rare” to have course with themes from medical economy, clinical pathology, sports medicine, basic medical sciences and transplantation medicine. It is interesting to point out that neither oncology, surgery or gynaecology/obstetricion were not found in “top ten”. Fifty percent doctors quoted important influence and one third very important influence of CME on every day work. These results revealed particular necessities in CME and they may be used as a guides in planning accurate and direct prolonged courses of medical education