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ABSTRACT

Background: vocational training and motivation of students influence the choice of the future profession.
Objectives: to determine the correspondence of the Medicine career choice with the vocational interests and the motivation referred by the first year students of Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences, during the 2016-2017 academic year.
Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out during 2016. Theoretical methods were applied: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction; empirical ones: survey in the form of a questionnaire, and mathematical-statistics for the processing of information.
Results: it was found that the highest percentage of students who chose the Medicine career had a vocation for their study. Its main motivations were related to human solidarity, economic improvements, the possibility of fulfilling internationalist missions and the family tradition, and in lesser percentage expressed not to feel vocation for the career and no disposition towards the prevention of diseases.
Conclusions: it was determined that there is marked correspondence between the career obtained and the vocation and motives referred by the students; the diagnosis made demonstrated the need to continue strengthening the values in order to promote vocational training and professional guidance in these students.