Introduction:

Pre-professional practices are essential activities in medical professional training. They allow applying, in practice, the contents taught in teaching and promote the development of research skills to face diseases like diabetes mellitus.

Objective:

To discuss the investigative skills of the sixth-year medical student for the improvement of the hygienic-therapeutic education of the diabetic patient since their pre-professional practice

Material and methods:

A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 80 sixth-year medical students during their rotating internship in Internal Medicine at the Provincial Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital Faustino Pérez in the first semester of the 2023 academic year.

Results:

A low level of research skills was identified in the students in relation to the teaching, care and administrative skills typical of the graduate's profile. The level of knowledge about diabetes in general was acceptable, but insufficiencies were detected in the mastery of teaching content in relation to hygienic-therapeutic education of diabetic patients.

Conclusions:

After guiding students’ learning through the investigative method, in correspondence with the use of the clinical method, an increase in the mastery of this knowledge was observed, thus reaffirming the importance of the development of investigative skills in the teaching-care profile of the student since pre-professional practice.

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