Background:

it is necessary to strengthen the general culture in students through the link of arts, history and medicine for the formation of a comprehensive and cultured professional.

Objective:

to elaborate an educational intervention program from the general culture for the improvement of the human behavior of the students of the Medicine degree.

Methods:

a development investigation was carried out at "Julio Trigo López" Faculty of Medical Sciences in the first semester of 2019. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive and structural systemic; and empirical ones: documentary review of study plan D of the Medicine degree and the base document for the design of study plan E of the Ministry of Higher Education, and a knowledge questionnaire to students before and after the implementation of the product, validated according to Moriyama's postulates.

Results:

the documentary analysis allowed to establish the absence of contents of general culture linked to the programs of the degree, while the questionnaire showed inconsistency in knowledge associated with elements of history, art and medicine, so a program of educational intervention was elaborated for students consisting of four topics and eight teaching activities given in four conferences and four workshops.

Conclusions:

it was assessed by expert´s criteria as adequate. Once applied, it demonstrated its effectiveness by expanding or modifying students' knowledge of the subjects taught.

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