Introduction:

choosing the professional area where a person is going to develop his whole life is not easy, especially when the individual does not have the tools to make an accurate and well-founded choice. Vocational discernment is a process that generates contradictions in young people, visibly affecting their attitudes, who often do not immediately pursue higher education, or decide to change careers due to lack of vocational guidance.

Objective:

to characterize the process of Professional Orientation towards the careers of Medical Sciences in the Pre-university Institutes of the municipality of Pinar del Río.

Methods:

the work is based on the Marxist-Leninist conception and its dialectical-materialist method, it has been supported by the use of different methods of the theoretical, empirical and mathematical-statistical level, which, being closely related to each other, allow obtaining the necessary information which, when ordered, processed and analyzed, make it possible to give an answer to the stated objective.

Results:

the process of Professional Orientation towards the careers of Medical Sciences is asystemic since it reveals a scarce knowledge about those careers that are part of the Medical Sciences and the labor scenarios of the future graduate.

Conclusions:

the theoretical analysis carried out reveals that in the process of Vocational Guidance towards careers in the Medical Sciences there is an inadequate correlation between the career selected in twelfth grade and the motivational interest of the future graduate as a way of continuity and improvement of man throughout his life.

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