Abstract: Education is international by its nature and it includes the best of the global developments.  The system of professional education of medical and pharmaceutical cadres in Russia is being modernized within the framework of the international legal acts and other documents on development of the European integration in the sphere of education and scientific research. Having signed the Bologna Convention in 2003, Russia has uptaken certain obligations on reform of its higher education without significantly lowering the level of Russian higher education system, including medical education. The higher education institution in Russia face a problem, since they need to preserve historic traditions of the higher medical education, principles and methodology of education, which were proven efficient for a long period of time, and the richest experience of teaching medical staff, while finding their place within the system of joint education sphere according to the European requirements. Improvement of the higher medical education in accordance with the Bologna Declaration predefined the need and priority for the education of medical staff in Russia, and it facilitated the development of a new generation of standards for the basic, post-diploma education and the permanent professional development of medics.