[Use of a rating system in the assessment of 4th-year students' knowledge of obstetrics]

The rating system was used to check up students' knowledge in obstetrics at the fourth course of the therapeutic and prophylactic faculty. Comparison of the results of the rating system and the routine one evidence that introduction of the new system has essentially improved the attendance of practical studies by the students, and their mean marks were improved as well. Students' knowledge assessed by the rating system coincided with the assessment made during examinations, thus permitting the use of this system in future without resorting to traditional sessions of examinations.