In the last decade, research institutes and universities have strengthened the development of outreach activities in
the biomedical field, involving researchers and professors as well as graduate students, but with little or no
implication of undergraduate students. However, the development of this type of activities, using the
Service-Learning educational approach, could be a valuable tool that would manage the acquisition of learning
competencies by undergraduate students of Health Science Degrees and would put science at the service of
society. In this project, we present the development of the workshop entitled “Exploring the human body”, in which
205 students in their first and second year of a Degree in Nursing or Medicine (University of Málaga, Spain) acted
as mentors of 753 high school students (15 to 16 years old) in several school years (since 2016-2017, excluding
2019-2020 and 2020-2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The workshop consisted of five work stations. Each
station featured a set of different experiments and activities that were designed to teach the multiple levels by
which the human body, and particularly the nervous system, can be studied: biomolecules, cells, tissues, organs
and systems. Both high school and undergraduate students gave an evaluation of the workshop via questionnaires
(Likert scale-based and short-answer questions) and a debriefing with the university professors. Data showed an
overall score of 4.6 out of 5 points for the workshop by both high school and undergraduate students. In addition,
undergraduate students pointed out that their participation had a positive impact on their academic background (4.8
out of 5 points), mainly due to the improvement of their oral communication skills (78 students) and self-confidence
(58 students).