The article analyses current trends in training of young specialists carried out by higher and secondary vocational educational institutions in the Union State of Russia and Belarus today. The study permitted to substantiate existing problems in health care related to staffing and high turnover of personnel. This situation determines special significance of staffing for health care system, especially in the light of development of digitization. The on-line surveys of students in Google docs concerning their attitudes towards prospect of their further participation in RD during and after graduation were carried out. The surveys included questions concerning assessment of quality of digital technology adoption that permitted to identify most attractive areas of digital medicine development for respondents. The particular trends related to training of health care personnel in the Union State of Russia and Belarus were revealed, including increase in the number of medical graduates in the Russian Federation, while in Belarus this indicator is decreasing. In addition, the preferred areas of realization of their professional potential by medical students with knowledge of digital technologies in health care were identified.