Background:

it is a necessity for higher education and the Cuban health system to promote the development of professional pedagogical skills in university students in the different scenarios of the Physical Education discipline, supported by healthy practices and healthy lifestyles.

Objective:

to build a model of curricular design for the training of the professional skill of educational orientation in health and prevention issues in the students of the Bachelor of Education, specialty Pedagogy-Psychology.

Methods:

a research within the qualitative approach was carried out at the pedagogical university site of "Marta Abreu" Central University of Las Villas from 2015 to 2020 whose object of study was the training of professional pedagogical skills in Pedagogy-Psychology students. For this, predominantly qualitative theoretical and empirical methods were used.

Results:

the process of designing a training model for the professional pedagogical skill of educational orientation was based to develop and train actions on health and prevention issues in university students of the Bachelor of Education Pedagogy-Psychology degree. It contains the determination of needs, a system of actions necessary for training, it offers methodological recommendations and finally focuses on the evaluation of the results once implemented.

Conclusions:

the model was valued by expert criteria with a predominance of Very Adequate for its relevance, feasibility of application and contribution to the objective for which it was designed.

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