Based on the experience of six years (2012-2018) developing a course of health promoters in the Penal Institution No. 4, at the Department of Health Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, we reflected about the education of health sciences students and the importance of incorporating new teaching-learning settings. Such process involves bringing into play the knowledge acquired in the classrooms and making it dialogue with the concrete problems of the community, in search of adequate and contextualized answers.
Prisons; Health education; Health promotion