Introduction:

the competence and performance of future medical graduates in the use of scientific information in any type of material media is related to the presence of the informational component in the study programme.

Objective:

to diagnose what levels of representativeness do the informational component has in the medicine programme and to what extent does it prepare students in their training process to be informationally competent.

Methods:

empirical and theoretical methods were used to diagnose to what extent the contents of scientific information included in the medicine programme contribute to the formation of competent students from the informational point of view.

Results:

a diagnosis of the level of informational competence of 2nd to 5th year medicine students at the University of Medical Sciences in Villa Clara was obtained. An internal evaluation of the presence of the informational component in the study programme of the Medicine career was conducted.

Conclusions:

the diagnosis showed that contents and teaching activities included in the study programme aimed at training a competent student informationally are insufficient and students achieve poor preparation in the use of specialized health science information resources throughout their careers.