Background:

the involvement of medical science students in multiple tasks, together with a greater knowledge about COVID-19 from publications, laid the foundations for the launching and development of the first virtual scientific conference on COVID-19, projected as a space for the development of scientific thought.

Objective:

to characterize the scientific production of the first virtual scientific conference CovidCien2021 on COVID-19.

Methods:

a retrospective, bibliometric, cross-sectional study was carried out during the month of February 2022 at Cienfuegos University of Medical Sciences. The universe was made up of the accepted papers (143). Theoretical methods were used: historical-logical, induction-deduction and analysis synthesis; empirical: documentary analysis.

Results:

the works with three authors stood out for a total of 50 presentations equivalent to 28.73%. The province of Cienfuegos presented the largest number of participants (195; 32.9%). There was a predominance of student research (132; 75.9%) and bibliographic reviews (88; 66.7%). The category of mention within the awards stood out (19 works; 41.3%).

Conclusions:

the scientific activity of the aforementioned conference was aimed at the presentation of scientific works of great impact, which laid the foundations for future research with significant results related to general and specific topics on COVID-19, and the increase in research projects., where an increase in student participation is observed.

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