BACKGROUND: 
It is demonstrared that cardiopulmonary resuscitation provided at the right time is essential for improving mortality in medical emergencies. Accurate knowledge and skills on this regard, in all medical personals is an essential part of medical education and it should be up to date with varying protocols. 
This study aimed to assess the number of training hours and the year of study when basic life support (BLS) and advance life support (ALS) educational course was given to students of the Medical Faculty in Romania. 
METHODS: 
All medical universities in our country, including 12 universities, were contained in the study.
It was analyzed: the number of training hours and year of study for BLS training, if these courses were resumed during the 6 years of the study on Medicine Faculty, and as well as when the ALS training were initiated and their duration.
RESULTS: 
From all 12 University of Medicine, in 58,33% BLS courses are held in the first Year of study, 8.33% in second year, 16.66% in forth year of study and 8.33% in last year.
The median numbers of hour for BLS training is 41,8 hours. In one of the university BLS training is optional for students from first and third year of study.
ALS training hours are held in 4th year -25%, and the rest of 75% are in 6th year. The median number of hours for ALS training is 37.66 hours.
CONCLUSIONS: 
In all of the medicine university the sudents are trained in BLS and ALS, the BLS is held in more than half of the university beginning from the first year of study. 
 In 25% of university, BLS course are not reevaluated, 16.66% BLS course is evaluated after 2 years and 58.33% after 5 years.

2 - Teaching Basic and Advance Life Support: An observational study for Romanian Medicine University