Introduction

this work reveals the state of the art on the advances in the recognition of the emotional competences of the medical students and the educational strategies implemented in the world for its evaluation and development, under the premise that the emotional strengthening of the future doctors improves the protective and coping factors, reducing risks for your health and that of your patients, considering yourself a contribution to medical education, mental health and public health.

Methodology

an exploratory and descriptive study was carried out, which consisted in reviewing in electronic bibliographic sources, the scientific production from the research works carried out at an international level from 2013 to 2018. An analytical matrix was designed with the following variables: author, year of publication and findings.

Results

a total of 25 articles were collected that fulfilled the following inclusion criteria: a) that is an original article, b) that are open access, c) that implies an educational intervention for the development of a positive emotional component, d) that the study population is exclusively medical students.

Conclusions

the identified findings refer that the development of emotional competences through psychological educational interventions minimizes the vulnerability of the medical student to certain dysfunctions such as anxiety, depression and burnout, generating an increase in the psychological and emotional well-being of the same during his formative and professional stage.