Background:

in Peru, the university law mentions that the curriculum will be updated every three years, according to scientific and technological advances.

Objective:

determine the relationship between the teaching performance of professors of the master's degree in medical sciences and the level of satisfaction of teachers at a Peruvian public university.

Methods:

a descriptive research with a quantitative approach was carried out at the National University of Trujillo from January to June 2022. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and inductive-deductive; empirical: analysis and questionnaire; and mathematical-statistical for the analysis of the data found.

Results:

teaching performance was high: 68%; student satisfaction regarding teaching performance was 37.7%; the relationship between teaching performance and satisfaction in master's students at the National University of Trujillo, according to Spearman's Rho test, was = 0.902 with a significance of p < 0.01. The relationship was high and direct among the study variables.

Conclusions:

the performance of master's teachers in medical sciences is significantly related to the level of satisfaction of their students; it is important to consider these results in order to continue with the policy of raising educational quality in medical sciences.

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