Background:

the use of virtual teaching-learning environments is a trend that higher education institutions put into practice in their development strategies and academic perspective.

Objective:

to evaluate the degree of satisfaction of the students with the virtuality of the Research Methodology subject in the Medicine degree, of Sagua la Grande Faculty of Medical Sciences during from 2020 to 2021.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive investigation was carried out where theoretical methods were applied: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction and empirical: a questionnaire consisting of 15 items, whose answers were evaluated through a Likert-type additive scale. For the information processing, descriptive statistics and statistical tools were used.

Results:

the virtual classroom designed for the subject was structured according to thematic units, as well as a module where the general orientations were located. The frequencies that prevailed for all dimensions were between the Satisfied and Very Satisfied levels. The Results and Content dimensions with a predominance of positive responses were highlighted; in the General orientations of the course and Availability/stability dimensions, it was where they manifested the greatest negativity.

Conclusions:

the use of virtuality showed that the level of student satisfaction achieved in the Research Methodology subject in the Medicine degree is high, so its implementation by teachers is recommended as support for the face-to-face class.

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