Background:

the process of universalization of education in the training of health professionals enabled medical education in diverse settings where primary care was only performed before.

Objective:

to assess the impact of universalization in the training and performance of health professionals in Santo Domingo Municipality University branch in Villa Clara.

Methods:

an intervention study was carried out in the universalization process from 2009 to 2017, the observation units were the total number of active ranked teaching professors and the students of the medical degree enrolled in the first two courses. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and historical-logical; and empirical ones: the documentary analysis of reports that offered the comparison data.

Results:

the figures found made it possible to appreciate advances in educators in terms of the transition from lower teaching ranks to associate professors, increase in academic and scientific degrees specified in a greater number of masters, second degree specialists and assistant researchers, and publications and Participation in national and international scientific events. Most of the students graduated, they remain in the health system providing good results in the care of the population, and even some of them have completed internationalist missions.

Conclusions:

the universalization process was valued in a positive way because it significantly increased the competencies in the professionals of the territory and the performance of graduates trained in this modality of university studies.

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