Background:

creating manuals that complement and facilitate student learning allows fulfilling the social mission of teachers as trainers of future health professionals.

Objective:

to assess the level of satisfaction of medical students on the electronic manual "Prevention of Suicidal Behavior" as a bibliographic resource to facilitate learning of the aforementioned subject in the integrative discipline General Comprehensive Medicine.

Methods:

a descriptive observational study was carried out in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Manzanillo, Granma, in the 2018-2019 academic year. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, hypothetical-deductive and hermeneutical-dialectical; empirical: questionnaire to students as users of the manual and descriptive statistics were used to process the information.

Results:

the use of the manual facilitated the understanding of the theoretical content and the development of skills to detect risks in patients with this type of behavior, from the in-service training in the GP's office and other teaching institutions where students fulfill their rotation.

Conclusions:

the students expressed an adequate level of satisfaction in their answers about the use of the manual designed for the subjects of the comprehensive General Medicine discipline.

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