Background:

in the educational environment, research related to students' modes of action acquire special meaning. The fourth-year students of the Dentistry degree in the teaching setting of the Victoria de Girón “teachin polyclinic of the “”Playa Faculty of Medical Sciences need to be trained as closely as possible to the modes of action of the future graduate, by taking into consideration theoretical and methodological problems objects of the profession.

Objective:

to describe an educational experience on the application of a didactic structure for the development of family visits as a modality of the in-service training with fourth-year dentistry students.

Methods:

the research was developed during the courses from 2014 to 2019. Theoretical, empirical and statistical methods were used. The didactic structure focused on the development of the visit to the family consists of four stages with the corresponding objectives and actions.

Results:

education at work is recognized as a fundamental way of organizing teaching for the Dentistry career and visiting the family as one of the modalities, which constitutes a guideline to follow in the proposed didactic structure.

Conclusions:

the analysis and assessment of the results obtained after the application allowed us to verify significant changes and qualitative transformations from the didactic structure, which constitutes an alternative for the improvement of the modes of action of the fourth year students of the Dentistry career.

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