This is an overview of the recent situation and problems of physiology training at Hungarian medical faculties. Hungary, a country with about 10 million inhabitants, has four Universities with medical faculties, where about 800 medical doctors graduate yearly. The Physiology departments are in a particular position. While interest in and funding of dwindling traditional research in system physiology are dwindling, the importance of the subject in medical training keeps these departments among the most prestigious ones at the faculties. This is manifested in the fact that these departments employ a relatively high number of teachers. The proportion of medical doctors is among physiology teachers still conspicuously high in Hungary. Physiology departments, however, have to cope with numerous problems, primarily with the meagre financing of their activities. Further, problems have arisen in connection with the recent establishment of unified Universities in Hungary, and the introduction of the Credit System, and among others the introduction of a new animals rights law has made the life of physiology Professors more difficult. On the other hand, the advent of computer-controlled teaching systems, the Internet and the widening international relationships offer hitherto unavailable possibilities in physiology teaching. Not only demonstration methods, but also examination techniques are continuously developing. These and the introduction of new quality control assessment methods are opening up new prospects in our teaching work.