El estudiante de estomatología y su esfuerzo en el aprendizaje

the student must to be able to face the different tasks that faculty pose, thus it is necessary that they play an active role in the development of all activities. a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted to characterize the learning process of the first year students of stomatology career from the "hermanos ruiz aboy" university polyclinic of san miguel del padrón municipality. la habana from september, 2008 to february, 2009. universe included 30 students of first year of stomatology career who were polled by the authors. the 63.3 % was admitted by means of the countryside high school, the 60 % choosed the career by vocation and at its turn were they with the best academic results achieved and the 40 % also remains the study habit with a good academic performance. we concluded that more than a half of entered students had vocation for the career with the best academic results. those entered to career through the countryside high school and those from the integral overcoming had the poor study habit.