Introduction:

The completion works of the specialty represents a powerful instrument in the teaching-research training process of future specialists. Objective: To carry out a critical review of the completion works in the specialty of Comprehensive General Medicine specialty.

Methods:

A descriptive, cross-sectional, observational study was conducted at the Ernesto Guevara Teaching Polyclinic in the municipality of Niquero, Granma province.

37 theses belonging to students of the medical specialty were submitted for review during the years 2019 and 2020.Theoretical and empirical methods were used. Data were expressed in absolute frequencies and percentages.

Results:

Topics related to the Maternal-Child Program constituted the majority, 35.14 %. There was a clear predominance of educational intervention research in health, 62.16 %. Among the deficiencies in the methodological aspects, the little depth in the discussion, the comparison with outdated studies and the lack of authorial position in 75.67 % of the reports were pointed out. Among the formal aspects, there is evidence of a predominance of vagueness in the writing/repetitive use of words in 64.86 %.

Discussion:

The topics investigated and the most frequent types of studies were identified, as well as the main methodological and formal insufficiencies, among which are difficulties in formulating the scientific problem and the scarcity of the epidemiological context; little depth in the discussion, the comparison with outdated studies and the lack of authorial position, in a total of 28 reports, which represents 75.67%.

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