Relevance. The available unique experience of elimination of medical and sanitary consequences of emergency situations of natural, technogenic and social nature proves that the effectiveness of rendering medical care within or on the border of emergency area depends on timely arrival and actions of non-staff healthcare professionals of the All-Russian service for disaster medicine - crews for specialized medical care, physician-and-nurse crews. Directly during training and practical activities non-staff healthcare professionals face problematic issues affecting their readiness and quick response. Intention. To define the most significant problematic issues influencing work of non-staff healthcare professionals of the Service for disaster medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on elimination of medical and sanitary consequences of emergency situations. Methodology. Content analysis of the facts and trends in the documents regulating activities of non-staff healthcare professionals of eme