[The encounter: an organizational form of the teaching process. Its application to the baccalaureate nursing specialty].

Due to the importance of guided studies in training and improvement of workers hoping to reach the higher learning level, this new teaching modality is analyzed in the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences in Villa Clara in the discipline of Baccalaureate Nursing. Its advantages are described; the methodologic structure of the encounter course (as it is named from 1981 on as a result of the improvement of the teaching-educational process) is reported. Among these advantage the close association between teacher and student and self-training, which allows to develop the independent skills of the student are mentioned.