Introduction:

postgraduate education should serve for the formation of professionals as agents of social change, in the exercise of responsible citizenship, a commitment to the community and acting with values, guided by academic scientific knowledge and professional practice from and in the university.

Objective:

to characterize the factors that influenced the academic performance of Venezuelan residents of the first period of Comprehensive General Medicine in the State of Barinas, Venezuela in the academic year 2019.

Methods:

a retrospective descriptive study was conducted, the universe was constituted by 73 residents presented to the first modular exam, 42 of them were selected by simple random sampling. Socio-demographic variables, psychological factors and attitudes towards study, family factors and teachers of the Comprehensive Community Health Area were taken into account.

Results:

young adult female residents between 23 and 32 years of age predominated; in the psychological factors and attitudes towards the study, stress was evidenced followed by optimism towards the study, within the associated family factors, families with more than 5 members were highlighted, and as for the factors related to the teaching process, overload of care predominated.

Conclusions:

stress, care overload, unfavorable conditions for the development of teaching encounters and families with more than 5 members influenced the academic performance of the Venezuelan residents present in the study.

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