<![CDATA[Background: The ability to read, think, and write to develop one’s capacity for critical, imaginative, and reflective understanding of knowledge is known as literacy. Adequate literacy skills also play a crucial role in ensuring students are able to critically access, assess, and interpret scientific literature to support safe, ethical, and high-quality medical practice. In March 2016, Central Connecticut State University published a study that found that Indonesia ranked 60th out of 61 countries in terms of reading interest. Finding out how well-read medical students were in reading scientific publications. Objective: To analyze the level of literacy ability of medical students in evaluating scientific works. Method: Using the total sampling method, 97 respondents participated in this cross-sectional, quantitative investigation. A questionnaire was used Test of Scientific Literacy Skill (TOSLS), to obtain the data. Univariate (descriptive) data analysis was used, and The Friedman Test was used to examine the hypotheses for group comparison. The literacy level of medical students when it comes to evaluating scientific publications is quite low (⍴<0.05). Conclusion: Increased study of scientific literature, particularly textbooks and periodicals, is advised to raise the literacy proficiency of Surabaya medical students. In addition, there should be more efforts made to foster the culture of authoring scientific works and to comprehend basic statistics.]]>
