Introduction:

In Cuba several conceptions have existed on the study plans. The necessity to revise and propose changes that assure the levels of quality wanted in the process of integral formation of the future professionals motivated to investigate the theoretical and methodological elements that regulate and guide the teaching-learning process in the Clinical Pharmacology subject.

Objective:

To analyze the program of Clinical Pharmacology of the E plan study for the medicine career, from a critical and systematized approach.

Methods:

A qualitative study of the study program in the Clinical Pharmacology subject was carried out according to the E plan, effective in the University of Medical Sciences in Santiago de Cuba, during 2022, for which the methods of documental review, the rector documents of the teaching process in higher education and the methodology proposed by some authors were used.

Results:

Several topics enunciated an excessive number of specific objectives without taking into account the level of assimilation; the form of organization most used in teaching was the conference. Independent investigative work was not taken into account in frequent evaluations; meanwhile, the basic bibliography corresponded to an edition from 2002.

Conclusions:

The program did not require of thematic transformations, but from the didactic point of view components of the teaching-learning process should be modified, besides updating the pertinent basic literature.

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