Background:

Cuba experienced a third outbreak of COVID-19 in 2021, so its phase of limited indigenous transmission continued; hence the need to reorder the training process of students in Health Technology and Nursing degrees to stop corona virus transmission.

Objective:

to characterize the reorganization of the human resource in training in the Clinical Bioanalysis degree to support the technological processes which are carried out in laboratories and hospitals in the confrontation with COVID-19 in Villa Clara.

Methods:

a descriptive study was carried out at the Faculty of Health Technology and Nursing from September 2020 to January 2021. Theoretical methods were applied: analytical-synthetic and historical-logical; empirical ones: documentary analysis and individual interviews; and mathematical-statistical for absolute and relative values.

Results:

the students were reorganized by years and types of training in comprehensive community work, distance learning, and specifically, those in the 5th year of the face to face course were located in their municipalities of residence working in clinical laboratories, and in Santa Clara, in the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology and at the "Celestino Hernández Robau" University Hospital where they demonstrated typical skills and competencies of the profile.

Conclusions:

the Clinical Bio-analysis degree incorporated the most comprehensive students to confront COVID-19 according to the priorities of the Villa Clara health services; there they successfully carried out their work fighting COVID-19.

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