Introduction: Promoting research in medical students and increasing scientific production in the universities of Peru and Latin America is a priority and a necessity. Objective: To describe the design and application of the undergraduate thesis workshop course and its effectiveness in thesis production. Methods: A descriptive, comparative study, with analytical components, which included undergraduate students of the Human Medicine Faculty of the Universidad Ricardo Palma (Peru), during the years 2015, 2016, and 2017. The effectiveness indicators of the course were taken as: number of completed projects, number of undergraduate thesis dissertations approved, and number of completed manuscripts of articles. Results: A total of 460 students were included; 55% were women and 45% were men. Almost all (99%) of the students had no previous experience in research. The areas chosen by the students for the theses were: clinical 50%, surgical 30%, and public health 20%. We passed from an average of 6 theses per year to one of 150 theses per year with the introduction of the new university law and the completion of the workshop course. The indicators evaluated of the course showed an efficiency greater than 95%, P = .000. Conclusion: The workshop course proved to be an effective tool for contributing to the production of undergraduate theses in the Faculty of Human Medicine of the Universidad Ricardo Palma.