Background:

civic education plays a preponderant role in the formation and development of values, feelings, convictions and principles of the new generations of students of medical sciences in Cuba.

Objective:

to design educational actions for the improvement of civic education in students of health technology degrees in Villa Clara.

Methods:

a development investigation was carried out at the Faculty of Technology and Nursing in Villa Clara, during the 2019-2020 academic year. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and historical-logical; and empirical ones: documentary review, interview, questionnaire and observation, and the criteria of specialists for the assessment of educational actions.

Results:

it was found that there are difficulties in complying with the civic education standards, which expresses inadequacies in some teachers when applying them; and in students in their social behavior; therefore, educational actions were designed to contribute to the reinforcement of ethical, moral and civic values, in accordance with the educational project of the Cuban society.

Conclusions:

the actions were valued by the specialists as pertinent, useful and novel. Its implementation allowed the improvement, not only of theoretical knowledge in teachers and students, but also the recognition of improvements in their citizen behaviors and the confrontation of points of view, criteria and conceptions against incorrect patterns of behavior.

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