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The article is devoted the 60th anniversary of the honored worker of higher school of the Russian Federation, professor Vladimir Nikolaevich Nikolenko.

The purpose: studying of educational opportunities of sports tourism in processes of early social adaptation of students and gender features of ecological knowledge of students of higher education institutions of various profiles. Material and methods. Questioning of students of 2 and 3 courses of agrarian (n=147)and medical (n=147) of universities of Saratov age till 21 year in a gender ratio 1:1 is conducted. Results. Low ecological literacy of students of agrarian and medical universities, and also very "vague" ecological outlook is revealed. Gender distinctions in perception of environmental problems have been established. So, girls of medical university are more ecologically competent, than young men. Girls of both higher education institutions are more concerned about an ecological situation on the planet, but in too time a peculiar social and psychological mimicry which was shown in lack of correlation between the correct answers to questions of endoecology and value of a healthy lifestyle and a conduct of life of students was observed. Research has shown the high importance of occupations by physical culture and sport. The way of increase of popularity of tourism as sport is offered. Are given a work experience of section of sports tourism. Conclusion. The received results indicate the need of enhancement of methodology of teaching ecological bases of the higher school taking into account gender features of students.

The aim: to study possibilities of application of telemedical methods using for the organization of the system of distance learning for medical staff training in network of remote health centers with modern methods of providing emergency medical care. The use of telemedicine technology enables application of common standards of modern emergency medical care in a major industrial companies in which health care is based on the outsourcing of medical services. Technical training was implemented using a multi-point video conferencing between the head office and remote enterprises, included in its structure, implemented on the basis of corporate communications. Block-modular training infrastructure has been formed, which included both theoretical components, realized in the form of video lectures, and demonstration part including presentations, video demonstration of techniques of care. The applied technique has been realized over a short period for distant training of more than 300 health care workers providing care to 48 enterprises.

The article presents the biographical data of Doctor of Medicine, A. P. Minch. It describes his scientific and practical contribution to the development of medicine in Russia, to the public health organization in Saratov and to the training of medical specialists at Saratov Medical Institute.

The article presents the information about the life, career and scientific work of Aristarchus Lewkowski — the founder of Saratov'sNeurological science school and the creator of outpatient neurological services.

The article presents the information on the annual Interregional conference held in Saratov State Medical University" From Theory to Practice: Opportunities and challenges of modern pharmacotherapy". The next conference will be held on 20-21 April 2017.

The article discusses changes in the organization of dental care and dental education in various time stages of the formation of dental education in the Saratov province since the late 19th century to the present time.

The article describes the experience of the organization of Olympiad in Internal medicine at the medical university for senior students and clinical residents. The paper presents the possibility of Olympiad in Internal medicine at the medical university is a modern educational technology that increases interest to the disciplines and motivation to professional development and formation of professional competencies. Such type of Olympiad helps future therapeutics to improve in their specialty and to form a personal reserve for the future work in the medical and research team, promotes continuity between students and postgraduate trainers in higher professional medical education.

The field of medicine facing the issues of diagnosis and treatment of spine diseases and injuries requires training of specialists in vertebrology taking into consideration the modern standards of higher professional education and medical care conditions. The article deals with the training of the specialists using a competency-based model

The article presents biography of Professor LA Varshamov, his scientific and practical contribution to the development of Russian Medicine and to the training of academic staff at the Saratov Medical Institute.