Emotional-stress pressure develops in students in the conditions of educational activity and especially strengthens during the session, which leads to significant mental, neuroendocrine and vegetative shifts. A visual analyzer is subjected to a special load during the training period, since the main part of the information comes through the organ of vision. The aim of our work was to study the vagosympathetic correlation in the development of myopic refraction in students. Materials and methods of research: In this regard, was conducted a research of visual acuity for distance (if necessary, vision correction was carried out) in medical students of the 2nd course using the Golovin-Sivtsev tables. A total of 30 male and female students, aged 18 to 20, were examined