Introduction:

The conception of the social impact in the doctoral theses in biomedical sciences has required an integrative approach that favors a science orientation and technological innovation in health, for the transfer of biomedical progress and innovations.

Objective:

To describe the conception of social impact in biomedical sciences dissertations.

Methods:

An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out, from December 2022 to March 2023, of 40 doctoral theses reports -selected by simple random sampling- published in the Repository of Biomedical and Health Sciences Theses in Cuba. For this purpose, the variable conception of social impact in these theses was evaluated according to 3 indicators measured in high, medium and low categories.

Results:

In the doctoral theses analyzed, 22.5% corresponded to medical sciences; 5.0% to nursing; 22.5% to stomatology and 25.0% either to medical education sciences or to health sciences, respectively. A predominance of reports from dental sciences in the low category was obtained in the 2 indicators related to the contribution and relevance of the social problem they addressed (with 55.5% in each one).

Conclusions:

It was verified that the conception of social impact in biomedical sciences dissertations was limited, since the most important thing in these ones was to support the scientific impact.

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