The article considers the analysis of the ideas of students of the Institute of Pediatrics of a medical university about their future profession. There is a comparison of the views of the second-year university students and of the sixth year students. They’re given in order to trace the dynamics of changes in beliefs in the course of training and to identify the influence of the learning process on the ideas change. The research is conducted through the problematization of features of representation of graduates of the Institute of Pediatrics about pediatrics. The main part contains an analysis of the questionnaire. Also there is a reveal of the modern problems of teaching pediatricians in their major at the university. This research is based on the opinions of students of the Samara State Medical University.