The reference list presented here is a selection of educative objectives performed by the French "Collège des Enseignants de Médecine Vasculaire" for the different levels of the medical initial education course. It was produced through a collective procedure, after selecting the most relevant topics and setting up writing rules based upon docimology, and favoring practical rather than theoretical objectives. The main topics are peripheral obstructive arterial disease, polyatherosclerosis, atherosclerosis risk factors, venous thromboembolic disease, thrombophilia, chronic venous insufficiency, lymphatic insufficiency, leg ulcers, vascular acrosyndromes, cerebrovascular diseases and connective tissue diseases, vascular occupational diseases, vascular adverse effects of drugs, diabetic vascular disease, the vascular consequences of hypertension, vascular malformations and angiodysplasia, inflammatory arterial diseases, and vascular explorations. As a whole they include about 300 objectives for the five teaching levels. We hope that this list will help stimulate production of training courses and documents strongly needed in this field.