The rating evaluation is a type of quantitative and qualitative monitoring of students' academic and practical activities. In this article the authors demonstrate the experience of the use of rating system in the assessment of academic and practical preparation of students in the Russian higher schools.
Chernenkov Yu.V., Gumenyuk 0.I. Rating system — innovative method of evaluation of students academic and practical preparation // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 471-474

The aim of the article is to assess the situation with the introduction of innovative forms of education into medical higher schools. The levels of introduction and techniques of modernization of medical education have been presented. Having a complex of pre-university, secondary professional, undergraduate and graduate educational programs it has been shown that the State University organization has obtained a definite approach to the work in this sphere.
Protopopov A.A., Averyanov А.P., Dorogoykin D.L., Suyetenkov D.Ye., Kloktunova N.A. Innovations in Medical Education: Results and Prospects // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 140-144

As you read this editorial, I can almost hear you asking – yet another medical journal – pray why? We have medical journals of all hues – catering to all segments of medical professionals – from the rookie to the expert and from the generalist to the ultra subspecialist. Though we have plenty of medical journals published from our country, unfortunately many of them just do not make the grade. What would I expect from this new journal? I fondly hope that ‘The Health Agenda’ would prove to be meaningfully different and eventually become a publication that promotes quality medical education and medical ethics apart from it’s stated purpose of medical research. I trust that it will include these vital aspects of education and ethics – for surely there cannot be a significant one without the other! I would also like to add medical history to it’s domains, because this is what gives each one of us a perspective in the timeline of our profession and helps us to humble ourselves when professional arrogance creeps in. This editorial looks at present day medical education in the country with cynically tinted glasses and thereby posing the oxymoronic phrase in the title as a possible solution.

The article presents data of history of organization, scientific and practical function of the Physico-medical society and its contribution to the development of medical education and health care in the Saratov region in the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries
Popkov V.M., Zavyalov A.I., Lutsevich I.N., Myasnikova I.V., Raikova S.V. Contribution of Physico-medical society to development of medical education and health care in Saratov region (to the 150th anniversary) // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 730-737

Russia’s joint to "Bologna process" sets definition of main points in innovative and integrative processes as an object for academic community. The aim of all applied innovations is to improve education quality and deep integration to European educational space. Modular principle of teaching at profile chair of pediatric faculty, presented in the article, permits to raise students' motivation in educational process; to improve formation of final-year students' professional competence by means of optimization class workand self-study.
A.A. Svistunov, Yu.M. Spivakovsky, A.S. Eyberman, Yu.V. Chernenkov, A.A.Protopopov, E.N. Shulgina MODULAR-RATING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AT PROFILE CHAIR OF MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: ABILITIES AND PERSPECTIVES IN THE FRAME OF BOLOGNA PROCESS GENERAL PRINCIPLES // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2008, pp. 14-18

In 90-ies years of last century in our country happened the crash of the system of values with transition to the standards of capitalistic society, and it lead to the formation of chronicle psychosocial stress of high and medium levels. Medics of all directions started to face functional psychosomatic diseases. Raised the necessity in grounding of health manpower in discipline of clinical psychology, with the learning of psychophisiological bases of diseases and possibilities if their correction. This direction of development of soviet medical education and health service in general seems progressive and prospective.
P.V. Glybochko, A.A. Svistunov, V.F. Kirichuk, A.I. Kodochigova, E.S. Olenсo, M.G. Kucherov, E.A. Krovaykova CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY – ACTUAL DIRECTION IN GROUNDING OF HEALTH MANPOWER // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2007, pp. 22-25