Introduction:

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) refer to a concept used to designate what is related to Informatics connected to Internet. For all kind of educational applications, ICTs are means and not ends; they are construction tools and materials that facilitate learning, skills development and different ways of learning.

Objectives:

to diagnose the behavior of the use of information and communication technologies (TIC’s), as a learning resource, in undergraduate students in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Matanzas.

Materials and method:

a survey was applied to a sample of 90 undergraduate students and 12 teachers. An automated database was created and primary information was summarized using descriptive statistical techniques.

Results:

most of students (61.1%) consider the use of ICTs in their training to be important, but 25.6% do not use it; 54.6% is not satisfied with the time of use of ICT during lessons; 41.1% do not have information searching skills, 72.1% consider that the use, space and conditions of the means and technologies existing in this institution is not good and 100 % of teachers address the need for training in this aspect.

Conclusion:

It is evident the need to strengthen the skills of the students, in terms of the use of ICTs, and to train the teachers.

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