摘要：There is a high prevalence of bad quality of sleep in university students, especially medicine. Sleep disturbance adversely affect the mental, physical health and quality of life. To evaluate the quality of sleep and insomnia and his association with the academic yield in medicine students of a public university from Colombian Caribbean Coast. Cross sectional study, carried out on sample of first to tenth-semester of medical students from Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia who agreed to participate in the investigation by signing an informed consent form. The Athens scale, the Epworth sleepiness scale and the Pittsburgh sleep quality index was applied with a survey compilation of socio-demographic and academic data. A global sum of five or greater in Athens scale indicates insomnia and a global sum of five or greater in Pittsburgh indicates a poor sleeper. A stratified sample by gender and semester was chosen. Data analysis was performed using Epi-Info statical program (version 7). A p value
