Objective: With the interest of raising the reality of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Panama. and knowing the challenges that the future impose to the medical profession, a situacional diagnosis was considered necessary to know the atlitude of the medical student about his formal medical education and his perception about the system in which he is forming.

Metodology: This was a transversal descriptive study having all medicine school students enrolled in the month of November of year 2002 as universe. The sample size was calculated using Cochron equation for finite universes, being N =284. A closed survey was used, applied by representatives of each semester.

Results: 48% basic cycle students never attend extracurricular activities. 53% of the graduating students never atlended to medical attention tours throughout their career. 37% of the students answered that at half of their career they had never made an investigation study. Asking about complains regarding students satisfaction, we found that there is a general feeling that there is great curricular load, as well as a lack of incentive by the teachers.

Conclusions: The opinion of the students demonstrates that there is a lack of support from the medicine faculty to them to participate actively in activities that complement their education. It also demonstrates a great apathy from the students to the curricular system of the school.