From the perspective of the Total Research, a descriptive study was conducted to understand the learning process in tuberculosis at the Medicine Program Universidad Libre Barranquilla Campus, for which he took as reference the contents of the Educational Project Program, microcurriculos of the Curriculum subjects, the perception of students and teachers on the academic work of occupational skills training in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of tuberculosis, and the teaching strategies used to promote the construction of knowledge about them, allowing the characterization and understanding by way of interpretation of that process, identifying only two subjects with disciplinary powers to promote tuberculosis content, but 83 % of the students recognized that implicitly or explicitly it is worked. Agreement between students and teachers exclusively on skill related to treatment was found.