The arrival of the information era has changed many things. The translation profession has also undergone significant changes. Now, in order to be a competent translator it is a must to be computer literate and to keep one's information technologies skills updated. This work aimed at characterizing the current condition of instrumental competence among Cuban medical translators. However we soon discovered that the models available in the literature were not adequate for this purpose. For this reason, a new model of instrumental competence is proposed. This research has both theoretical and...